Author: Mark E. Johnson

Last week, Carolyn Carter passed away at the age of 91. Mrs. Carter was the first female photojournalist at the Atlanta Constitution and was an award winning photojournalist. She and her husband, Don, founded the Carter Chair for Journalism Excellence at Grady College in 2004. Her importance to the University of Georgia campus won’t ever be truly measurable, but please...

Steve Myers has a great post up over on the Poynter Institute’s site about ways for journalists to think like business folks. Spend some time on it, then spend a lot of time figuring out how to implement it. As it’s graduation season and the “staff” job market is still pretty slack, a lot of students will be heading into...

The New York Times is … well … crowd sourcing a photo story. Yep, on May 2, at 11 a.m. local (to them) time, they’re asking people to shoot a photo of their world and send it in. One side of me thinks this is pretty crass – the Times looking for free content – and the other side of...