Mark E. Johnson – Page 193 – Visual Journalism

February 23, 2011

ICONN Conference and the Bluejeans Workshop in Athens

This is going to be a great three days … We’ve rescheduled the ICONN Annual Conference for March 24 and 25 here in Athens and are bringing in most of the original lineup of people. And there was a reason for that date – the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication will hold its annual Bluejeans Workshop on Saturday,...

Advice & Learning

February 23, 2011

Seeing Home

The New York Times’ Lens blog has a post up looking at the work of Los Angeles-based photographer Thomas Michael Alleman who has been wandering his home town’s streets with a plastic Holga camera for the last nine years. There’s a visual style, a depth to the work, that I really enjoy. I’m not so sure I can go so...

Craft/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

February 22, 2011

On Copyright, Licensing and Fees … Again

I will never, ever, stop hounding my students about the value of their work. So when I come across a smart synopsis of copyright, licensing and contracts, I’m going to share it with you. Every. Single. Time. On Monday afternoon I was sitting in a meeting with my boss and a colleague and the topic of “entrepreneurial journalism” came up....

Business & Industry

February 21, 2011

Get Seen, Get Found, Maybe Get Hired

Alex Garcia over at the Chicago Tribune has a post up about getting a job as a photojournalist. These pop all the time, everyone wants to toss out their ideas. Or warnings. Some of them just veer off into vicious warnings … This one doesn’t. It hits all of the main things – network, be professional, sell what you bring...

At Work/Business & Industry

February 21, 2011

Workspace

Followed a tweet to this post by Nick Charney at the Government In The Lab site about The Workstation of a Modern Day Policy Wonk. (How could you not follow that sort of link?) He talks about he organizes the tools he uses to get through his days. Not sure why, but I’m kind of fascinated by this sort of...

At Work/Business & Industry/Tech Talk

February 20, 2011

Vlog: Documentaries and Visits From Atlanta Magazine Staffers

This week we talk a bit about At Close Range, a documentary on National Geographic staff photographer Joel Sartore, and feature interviews with Rebecca Burns, the director of digital strategies for Emmis Publishing, and Sheri Wilson, the art director for Atlanta Magazine. Burns also recently published a new book, Burial for a King, looking at the 10 days following the...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Journalism/Video

February 19, 2011

Come Early, Stay Late

It’s not the way to make friends with party hosts, but it is the way to make pictures that tell stories. As a news photographer in the late 1990s, I worked for my hometown paper, a paper that, at the time, boasted some of the best shooters in New England. Getting to work alongside Shannon McHugh-Power, Eddie Hopfmann and Paul...

Craft/Journalism

February 18, 2011

Our Vanishing Visual Record

Steve Parker at St. Louis Today, passes on a lament from the recent Society of News Design competition – the loss of emotional images from our newspapers. The comments lifted from the SND report ring too true: Amid all our positive observations, we became concerned about the state of photojournalism in the pages we saw. We missed emotional photographs. Glossy...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism

February 18, 2011

New York Times’ Intern Charged with Disorderly Conduct and Harassment

This story leaves open a lot of questions … the New York Times reports, towards the end of this story, that their intern, Karly Domb Sadof, was charged with disorderly conduct and harassment after allegedly pushing a police office in the face. Which is a problem. Except the police were ordering her to comply with a publicists request to not...

Ethics & Legal

February 15, 2011

Multimedia Boot Camp

FYI … Dear Journalism Colleague, We know this is true: good multimedia training is critical for journalists and journalism educators. Freedom Forum New Media Training at the Diversity Institute will offer a Multimedia Boot Camp for Journalism Professionals and Educators Feb. 23-27, 2011.   The multimedia training is tailored for journalists but open to anyone with an interest in multimedia storytelling,...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Journalism/Multimedia/Tech Talk

Author: Mark E. Johnson