Mark E. Johnson – Page 285 – Visual Journalism

July 17, 2007

Newsweek and the Bad Photo Editor

Every magazine photo editor (and newspaper and wire service editor, too) makes a mistake at some point in their life. At the bad end of the scale are the days when you doctor someone’s teeth or move a pyramid to fit a cover. But the other end of the scale can be just as damaging at times, when it’s minor...

Ethics & Legal/Good Work/Journalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 17, 2007

NFL web video restrictions

John McClain at the Houston Chronicle takes on the National Football League’s new 45 second rule for video and audio on the web. (Thanks to Al Tomkins for this, from the Morning Meeting email.)

Journalism

July 15, 2007

"Caretaking the Rare Glass"

Our friend (I hope he doesn’t mind that) David Burnett has a great post on acquiring a new/old lens – and brings up the idea of not owning older gear but merely being the caretaker of it. I so want a Speed Graphic …

Advice & Learning/Tech Talk

July 14, 2007

The YouTube Aesthetic

Khoi Vinh has a short post on the YouTube Aesthetic – how television commercials are now trying to look more amateurish. In a few days, I’ll be set up to start scanning old slides again. I’ve finished my grandfather’s collection (well over 6,000 photos) and am about to start my father’s. Most of these photos have a lot of family...

Multimedia/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

June 28, 2007

Women in Photojournalism Competition

Worth looking in to, definitely worth attending if you can … CALL FOR ENTRIESFor theWomen in Photojournalism Photojournalism Conference“Expanding our Vision”Photography Contest*The Entry Deadline is July 1st, Please Enter Today* There are no categories, only your interpretation of the theme. Your photographscan represent your definition of the theme through people, place, actionor event milestone. Each photograph is a single entry....

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry

June 25, 2007

"That's going to leave a mark …"

Good journalism is good journalism. And when it involves killer flying fish, well, you just have to watch … (okay, not killer, but they could certainly maim you) Thanks to Poynter’s Al Tompkins for the link.

Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

June 19, 2007

Why Newspapers are in Trouble

First, go read this. Now, think about it. Does it hurt yet? Because I keep looking at the date to see if it’s April 1 or something … is there any actual news here? If I call up the paper and say, oh, I don’t know … “I’m creating a new automobile company, based in Bogart, and if we get...

Journalism/Thoughts & Theory

June 18, 2007

To Text or Not to Text

Okay, this is way off topic – but there’s some good journalism that can be done. Over on MousePrint.org (a great blog that looks at the ways consumers get ripped off by things in the “mouse print”), they’re talking about the text messaging charges television viewers can get hit with when playing along with some game shows. It brings up...

Journalism

June 15, 2007

Grady's (Visual) Anatomy

For the last week I’ve been elbow deep in high school kids. Everywhere I look, there’s another one. Which is okay, because this was the Georgia Scholastic Press Associations’ annual journalism camp – this year called “Grady’s Anatomy.” I’ve helped the GSPA with some workshops in the past, but I did the full tour this year, teaching ten students as...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism

June 8, 2007

My Dream Job … Has Been Taken

There is one book that changed my life more than almost anything else. It convinced me to be a journalist, it reenforced my wandering habits. It taught me that good stories don’t come from good writers, they come from great subjects. William Least Heat Moon’s “Blue Highways” was loaned to me when I was a very impressionably 16-year-old and I...

Good Work/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

Author: Mark E. Johnson