October 11, 2007 Obit: Alexandra Boulat, 45 Alexandra Boulat, a founding member of the VII agency, has passed away after suffering a brain aneurysm in June. Photo District News article.Blogher article. Categories Good Work/Photojournalism
October 10, 2007 Meth or Suicide? Mindy McAdams, Flash Goddess, posted this to her blog the other day – it’s an interesting look at how a possible suicide unfolded in Reno, Nev., as done by the Gazette-Journal. This is a basic SoundSlides presentation – but with strong narration and using the publicly available 911 tapes, it has a lot of detail. The visuals are simple but... Categories Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism
October 7, 2007 UGA Photojournalism Students at Petit Le Mans On Saturday, October 6, 13 University of Georgia photojournalism students headed out to Brasleton, Ga., for the 10th Annual Petit Le Mans and the Second Annual Motorsports Photojournalism Workshop. What? Yep, for the second year Grady College students spent a day covering the ten-hour (or 1000 miles) sports car race sanctioned by the American Le Mans Series. Three editors worked... Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism
October 4, 2007 Yet More Student Blog Work Someone lit a fire under those kids … check out Richard Hamm’s “phlog” (as Kelly Wegel is fond of saying). He’s thrown up some galleries of older stuff to go with the new work. Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Multimedia/Tech Talk
October 4, 2007 Ten percent of page views at NYTimes.com are of … … slideshows. So says Vivian Schiller, general manager of NYTimes.com, in a piece on MarketWatch. (Thanks for the lead goes to Mindy McAdams, Flash Goddess.) Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Graphic Design/Journalism/Multimedia
October 1, 2007 Workshops of Note The NPPA’s Flying Short Course: Washington, D.C., on October 26 & 27. This is the 50th anniversary and looks to be hosted at USA Today’s headquarters.The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar: Gwinnett, Ga., on November 30 and December 1. Email me if you’re interested and I’ll put together a contact list. Do it now so we can try to fund some of... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry
October 1, 2007 Reuters on Kenji Nagai The Reuters photo blog has a brief on the image of Japanese journalist Kenji Nagai who was killed in Myanmar last week. Categories Good Work/Journalism/Tech Talk
October 1, 2007 UGA Magazine Club Wednesday, Oct. 3 at 6:30 p.m. – The Magazine Club is having a meeting and Kelly Simmons, editor of Georgia Magazine, is coming to chat with us. It’s 6:30 in Journalism 505. Georgia Magazine is looking for freelance writers, so this could be a good opportunity to get some clips, as well as network and get career advice. Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism
October 1, 2007 The Real Reason Newspapers Need to do Video The Austin American-Statesman shows us why we need journalists who are prepared to work in all areas … (Okay, for some real commentary on the YouTubification of Amer … well, the world, try this piece instead.) Categories Good Work/Tech Talk
October 1, 2007 The War on Error That Aaron Johnson, he just cracks me up every day now … Categories Journalism/Tech Talk