March 30, 2011 Music to Our Ears The Chicago Tribune’s Alex Garcia has a post up on the things we love to hear. He did miss one – “There’s food over there …” Categories Journalism
March 30, 2011 Reuters Photojournalist Killed in Iraq The New York Times is reporting that Sabah al-Bazee, 30, was killed in Tikrit by suicide bombers dressed as police officers. The first commenter makes reference to something she heard on cable television: When politicians complain about mainstream journalism, they should pause for a moment and remember the dedication involved/required and displayed by reporters in mainstream journalism that isn’t evident... Categories Business & Industry/Journalism
March 29, 2011 A Way to Appease My Paranoia It won’t settle it much, but Amazon.com is now offering 5 GB of cloud storage for free. And, according to LifeHacker, if you buy just one MP3 album they’ll bump it up to 20 GB. I just signed up – you log in with your Amazon.com account – and haven’t pushed this around a lot, but it’s not a bad... Categories Journalism
March 28, 2011 It’s Time to Modernize Video Storytelling Mike Borland linked to this great Adam Westbrook piece on the five television video conventions that need to be abandoned. Well worth a few minutes of your time, and watch the first video … that is, perhaps, the worst bit of b-roll I’ve ever seen – a jump cut, off the tripod and obviously faked. A trifecta of disaster. Categories Good Work/Journalism/Tech Talk/Video
March 27, 2011 A Room Without a View NPR’s David Gilkey is in Japan and has filed a photo report, all shot through the broken windows of a destroyed hotel. Haunting stuff. Categories Good Work
March 26, 2011 The Kalish Workshop Returns Certainly one of, if not the, best picture editing workshops is returning – application deadline for the Kalish Workshop is Monday, May 2. Just the tag line – “visual editing for the new newsroom” – makes me want to go. Get yours request in. From their blurb: The Kalish returns for its 22nd year after being completely re-tooled to fit... Categories Advice & Learning/Journalism
March 26, 2011 Sell (Tell) to Your Audience Every now and then something catchy pops up in my Twitter feed that has, on the surface, nothing to do with visual journalism. But I click anyway and, today, courtesy of Rands (not his name or his initials, I suspect) came the following: Who is your audience? How do you connect with them? As journalists now, we have to have... Categories Journalism
March 26, 2011 Eight Apps Journalists Should Have Whitney Mathews over at the Poynter Institute has a listing of eight apps we should have on our smart phones. Most of these I have and agree with, though I’m still not sure Instagram is a “news” app as much as a social networking/sharing app. But maybe I just don’t get it yet … entirely possible. I would add Evernote... Categories Journalism/Tech Talk
March 23, 2011 CNN’s Margaret Moth Honored with a Named Fellowship CNN has announced the Margaret Moth Masters Fellowship to honor one of their first camera women who died of cancer a year ago. A nice tribute, and a program all graduate students should look at getting involved with. (Thanks to CNN’s Victor Hernandez for the lede.) Categories Business & Industry/Journalism