September 16, 2009 "Free Press in Free Fall" Art show opening over at ATHICA this weekend that looks at the problems of the journalism industry through art. May be worth swinging by, opening is Saturday, 7-9 p.m. Categories Advice & Learning
September 16, 2009 Internship Opportunity: National Student News Service FYI … Internship Description Are you interested in media and journalism? Do you think campus media could do a better job of serving students? Do you wish coverage of student issues and activism was better? Are you interested in playing a formative role in a growing organization? Join the effort to improve campus journalism nationwide and apply for an internship... Categories At Work/Business & Industry
September 16, 2009 Internship Opportunity: The White House FYI … As a reminder, the application deadline for the White House Internship Program’s Spring 2010 session is Sunday, September 20. Please encourage your students to apply. Visit the White House Internship website: http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/internships/ Apply to the White House Internship program: http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/internships/apply/ Learn more about the selection process: http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/internships/selection/ A White House Internship provides a unique opportunity to gain valuable professional experience and build... Categories At Work/Business & Industry
September 16, 2009 Go Ahead, Fail You’ll be in good company … [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6hz_s2XIAU&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0] Categories Thoughts & Theory
September 16, 2009 Side Window, Windshield, Etc. If you’ve never watched Rear Window, you should. But this has nothing to do with that. Monica Almeida has a post up on the New York Times’ Lens blog about shooting from her car. Another reason why you should have your camera with you all the time – you never know what you’ll see. Categories Photojournalism
September 16, 2009 Debt Threatens BU's Daily Free Press Boston University’s Daily Free Press is in trouble, trouble similar to what many newspapers are facing. But, as a college daily, it has an entirely different issue – turnover. Every few semesters the staff cycles through and institutional memory vanishes. Categories Business & Industry
September 13, 2009 Portraits of Us We spend our days photographing others, but Neal Ulevich spent some time in Vietnam photographing his colleagues. He’s posted 100 Polaroids he made, of the famous and unknown, online now. Many of the names you may recognize, it’s good to put a face with them after all these years. Categories Journalism
September 11, 2009 Football, with a Twist My good friend Scott Bryant at the Statesboro (Ga.) Herald sent along a link to an audio slide show he did on the first Georgia Southern game of the season. He said he’d been asked to get more fans into the paper and didn’t want to do just another gallery of cheering people. But what do you think? Does it... Categories Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism
September 10, 2009 New NPPA Blog: The Visual Student Okay, so Kevin Martin has beaten me to the punch – he’s created a blog on the National Press Photographers Association’s site for students, including a couple of posts asking about what makes a good intern. So, UGA student chapter – how are you going to top that? Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry
September 9, 2009 More Kodachromes from the FSA Time.com has posted an audio slideshow of more color photos from the depression, complete with a simple narration that tells some of the back story. I know it’s silly, but it’s so darn cool … Categories Good Work/Photojournalism