Author: Mark E. Johnson

April 12, 2011

Has the Flip Flopped?

When they first came out, I raved about how great a tool the Flip video cameras were. Two years ago, Cisco bought the company (then called Pure Digital) for $590 million and now they’re shutting it down. I am, well, shocked … how did this happen? The Flip was everyone’s darling, it allowed people to carry a video camera with...

Categories Tech Talk

April 11, 2011

On “Citizen Journalism,” Copyright and Payments

Adam Hochberg over at the Poynter Institute has a piece up on the photos that flowed out of the Southwest Airlines plane that had it’s fuselage come apart. He talks with the one passenger who was compensated for her images (by Reuters, so they get a nod of approval) and with several editors about how they go about obtaining images...

Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal

April 11, 2011

Renting Photoshop?

That’s what Adobe appears to have done – built a system where you can essentially rent any of the Creative Suite software packages. I’m looking at the numbers here and I’m trying to figure out who this makes sense for. Perhaps in a small business you can find a way to bill those expenses to a client. On a one-year...

Categories Business & Industry/Tech Talk

April 11, 2011

That Atlanta Lightning Shot

Many of you have sent me links to a photo from last week’s ferocious lightning storm that blew through Atlanta and Athens. Student Bryan Diaz found an interview with the photographer, Robert Wojciechowski, where he explains how the image came to be.

Categories Good Work/Tech Talk

April 11, 2011

Start Your Own Newspaper – For Free

Unhappy with your local publication? Think you can do better? Believe there are stories in your community that need to be told that aren’t seeing ink on paper? Tony Lee, a junior at St. Bonaventure University, outlines how he uses free tools to create his own news publication over at USA Today. His creation, The Intrepid, is a little rough...

Categories Journalism/Tech Talk

April 11, 2011

Reminder: Scott Pelley of CBS’ 60 Minutes in Athens

FYI … Scott Pelley of CBS’s 60 Minutes, winner of a truckload of journalism prizes including two Peabody Awards, will be delivering this year’s Peabody-Smithgall Lecture. It’s on Monday, April 11, at 4 p.m. in the Miller Learning Center’s Room 101. Please join us for a great talk and Q&A with one of the top TV journalists working today. Bring...

Categories Advice & Learning/Journalism

April 8, 2011

Social Media Strike

The union that represents the Associated Press journalists has asked its members to not tweet or post links to their stories on Facebook as the union is in negotiations on Monday and Tuesday. A social media strike … I wonder what sort of 140 character chants they’ll have at the rally?

Categories Business & Industry

April 6, 2011

Watch This Video, Get the Picture

NPPA President Sean Elliot posted a link to this video looking at the life of John Morris, easily the most influential photo editor ever. Anyone who was anyone in the 20th century worked with or for him. If you haven’t read his book, Get the Picture, you must.

Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Journalism/Video

April 6, 2011

Grads in the Wild

Been a great few minutes here in office 230 … was on the phone with Tracey Trumbull, director of photography at the Chattanooga Times Free Press, who was raving about several of my former students. He hired one as a staffer at the end of his internship, extended another’s internship because she was doing so well and the current intern...

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism

April 6, 2011

Bill Cunningham, Fashion Photographer

I am not a fashion guy (or even fashionable, really), but this trailer for Richard Press’ film Bill Cunningham: New York is intriguing.

Categories Good Work/Video