Author: Mark E. Johnson

November 18, 2009

What’s Quality Work Now?

Mark Briggs, who wrote the excellent Journalism 2.0 primer that I’ve used in several classes, posed the question at the National College Media Conference to three folks – how do you define what is good in digital journalism? The answers move from vague to comical (“Journalists need to discover their sense of mission. Otherwise it’s just going to be a...

Categories Thoughts & Theory

November 18, 2009

Negotiating Flat Fees

Over at A Photo Editor, Crai Oppenheimer is talking about when and hot to negotiate flat-fee assignment contracts. One of the cool parts is he has included a couple of contracts to look at and talks about when flat-fee contracts (meaning contracts that don’t split out expenses from creative and licensing fees).

Categories Business & Industry

November 18, 2009

Getting Online Video to Work

Two posts online this morning, each linked in content … first up is the Poynter Institute’s Regina McCombs talking about what works in the online video realm. Her assessment mirrors my favorite response to students, “It depends.” Based on the questions that lead to that post, Chuck Fadley at MiamiHerald.com talks about what has worked there, which comes down to...

Categories Journalism/Multimedia/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory/Video

November 17, 2009

Dilbert on News Aggregation

So sad, so true …

Categories Ethics & Legal

November 17, 2009

YouTube Creates Link to Media Sites

The New York Times is reporting this morning that YouTube has signed a deal with several media companies, including National Public Radio, to help handle video from “citizen journalists.” Citizens can click a link on the media sites and send their “news” reports to them where they can be reviewed by editors for possibly publication on the site. My first,...

Categories Tech Talk/Video

November 16, 2009

Free Webinar on SEO for Photojournalists

The National Press Photographers Associations next free online workshop, titled, “Get Found: Search Engine Optimization for Photography Web Sites,” is scheduled for this Thursday, November 18, at 7 p.m. The workshops are co-sponsored by PhotoShelter and are available online as archives after the sessions.

Categories Advice & Learning

November 16, 2009

DigitalJournalist.org to be Unplugged?

Say it isn’t so … but Dirck Halstead, who has run the Digital Journalist online magazine for a dozen years, has informed his readers that the site may go dormant after December’s issue. Long-time sponsor Canon has withdrawn its financial support, but he’s hoping to keep it alive through PayPal donations. Halstead was on of the pioneers of online, non-broadcast...

Categories Multimedia/Tech Talk/Video

November 16, 2009

5 Ways to Improve Your Shooting Without a Camera

Courtesy of Michael Zhang’s Twitter feed … put the camera down, or aside, and practice these techniques for seeing.

Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry

November 16, 2009

College Photographer of the Year Awards

They’re up – the 2009 CPOY award winners. And while a lot of them make me jealous, there’s one … that’s … well … you’ll find it. It’s funny, but … uh … every photojournalism professor in the country I know of discourages that particular subject.

Categories Competitions/Good Work

November 15, 2009

On Typography

One of several interests about which I know nowhere near enough … the New York Times talks about typographical errors. (My grad school graphics professor will be proud, I hope, to know I still study this stuff.

Categories Graphic Design