Author: Mark E. Johnson

December 6, 2011

Training Our Audience

Let’s face it, most of us know that video is an awesome (though not all-encompassing) story telling tool. There are some things it just does better than stills or words. And we’ve watched a couple waves of the-future-is-video, oh-no-no-one-is-watching-it came and go now. So, which is it? A massive time suck and drain on our time and financial resources? Or...

Categories Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory/Video

December 5, 2011

Reuters Global Journalism Internships

Only a week left for the next round of internship applications for Reuters Global Internships. Deadline for the Americas is December 15. From their site: ARE YOU A GOOD FIT? You are a student or recent graduate who is passionate about news and a quick learner. You have a strong academic record in journalism, economics, business, law, accounting, languages or...

Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism

December 5, 2011

Portfolio Website Advice

Over at the NPPA’s Visual Student blog, Brian McDermott has a great post up (the first of three) on building your online presence. Great advice, make sure you’re tuning in to this series – a great winter break project. I need to go look into the Google Keyword Tool now …

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Graphic Design/Journalism/Photojournalism

December 5, 2011

AP-Google Journalism & Technology Scholarship

The deadline to apply for a $20,000 scholarship for the 2012-2013 academic year is Jan. 27, 2012. From the release: The AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship program will provide $20,000 scholarships for the 2012-13 academic year to six promising undergraduate or graduate students pursuing or planning to pursue degrees at the intersection of journalism, computer science and new media. The...

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism/Tech Talk

December 5, 2011

130 Years of the Los Angeles Times

Over on the NPPA listserv, Mark Hetzberg pointed us to this great collection of images from the Los Angeles Times’ archive. I keep going back to that third image … wonder if I can ask my boss for a hot air balloon on a truck …

Categories Photojournalism

December 2, 2011

Amputation is Not the Answer

Here’s my big thoughtful piece for the week – you can’t cut you’re way out of a hole, that only makes the hole deeper or wider. You have to build your way out of it. As readership declined and advertising disappeared, so many news organizations started slicing away to make the bottom line palatable for the investors. It didn’t work....

Categories Business & Industry/Journalism/Thoughts & Theory

December 2, 2011

NPPA Election Results

Congratulations to Todd Maisel and Mark Dolan for their election to the NPPA Board of Directors, as well as to all the new (and returning) regional chairs.

Categories Business & Industry

December 2, 2011

Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar

It’s here! It’s here! It’s time for the 2012 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar – two days of learning, growing and networking. Several of my kids are there already, will be joining them on Saturday and doing some time at the NPPA table – swing on by and say hello.

Categories Advice & Learning

December 1, 2011

MediaStorm Workshops for 2012

On my list of things I’d like to do is the Methodology Workshop at MediaStorm. They have announced the 2012 schedule for those, as well as their Advanced Multimedia Workshops. Wonder how flush my boss feels this week … hmmm …

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Multimedia

November 30, 2011

A New Book! A New Flash!

I am significantly more excited about the announcement buried in this Joe McNally blog post where he talks about a new Nikon SB-910 flash – he has another book coming out. Sketching Light: An Illustrated Tour of the Possibilities of Flash is due to ship soon, it would seem. Going to go ahead and preorder it – why not, we...

Categories Craft/Tech Talk