Author: Mark E. Johnson

November 24, 2009

Dave Labelle in Athens – Dec. 1

He’s big, he has a big heart and he has a big passion for community journalism. He’s the legendary Dave Labelle, and he’ll be make a big presentation next week at Grady College. Labelle is the author of what is arguably the greatest community journalism book ever – The Great Picture Hunt, a book that explores enterprise photography through community...

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

November 23, 2009

On Backpack Journalism (podcast)

Continuing with the conversations we had during our March photojournalism workshop, this one on “backpack journalism,” also known as “mojos” for mobile journalists. Most refer to it as “one man bands.” We hear from Walt Stricklin, Director of Photography at the Birmingham News, Jon Samuels, staff photojournlaist at WXIA in Atlanta, John Curry, Visuals Director at the Augusta Chronicle, Minla...

Categories At Work/Audio/Business & Industry/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory/Video

November 21, 2009

Using Social Media for Journalism (podcast)

During our March photojournalism weekend workshop, I put several of our guest editors around a table and lead a series of conversations about the state of journalism. In the first, on using social media for journalism, I was joined by John Curry, Visuals Director for the Augusta Chronicle, Walt Stricklin, Director of Photogaphy for the Birmingham News, David Labelle, author...

Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

November 21, 2009

Beware, Bad Clients

There are sites like this all over the place for all sorts of industries, but this once made me laugh out loud a few times – Clients from Hell is a place for graphic designers to complain about, well, their clients. Stick it in your RSS reader, a good Saturday morning read. Thanks to Rob Haggart from A Photo Editor...

Categories Graphic Design

November 20, 2009

On Craft

Greg Mironchuk on gear … which matters very, very little.

Categories Craft/Thoughts & Theory

November 20, 2009

Free Food! (Or Why We Go Into Journalism?)

It’s the dream assignment on a bad day. You’re on your fourth shoot and there it is, someone offering you food. Some cheese, maybe half a tuna sandwich on a croissant … or, if you shoot for National Geographic, maybe it’s a … live penguin?

Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work

November 20, 2009

Congrats on Graduating, Now Where are You Going?

It comes up a lot at the end of the semester – internship search, job search, what do I do now? With so many of my students coming form the metro Atlanta area, they plan on closing out their Athens life and heading back to the suburbs to start anew. Which is a great plan if you’re heading into a career...

Categories Advice & Learning

November 19, 2009

David Guttenfelder’s Visual Variety

I talk with my students – constantly – about visual variety. About finding different ways of showing a story, about giving their readers a different perspective on the story at hand. We also talk about how it helps page designers – not having four medium shots from three stories makes the page look a lot better. Over the years, I’ve...

Categories Craft/Good Work

November 19, 2009

World Series via Time Lapse

Daniel Shirey sent this along … Robert Caplin tool multiple cameras to the last World Series game and put together a time lapse story out of the 12,000 images. Neat effect, gives you a feel of how the event went. (And, see? Not a single comment about my feelings towards the winners of that game.)

Categories Good Work

November 18, 2009

6×6 – 36 Tips to Make You a Better Multimedia Storyteller

Stolen, quite simply, from Richard Koci Hernadez’s Multimedia Shooter site – Adam Westbrook gives you six tips in six areas that will help improve your skills and your stories. The video section sums up what I try to teach so nicely I may not need to teach it anymore.

Categories Audio/Craft/Multimedia/Tech Talk/Video