Author: Mark E. Johnson

March 29, 2013

Far Afield, But Parallel

My friend Arlo Abrahamson, a public affairs guy in the Navy, sent me a link to an OpEd in The Washington Post by the Navy’s chief information officer, Rear Adm. John F. Kirby, in which he talks about the need for service members to do a better job of explaining what they do to their fellow citizens. As I read...

Categories Journalism/Thoughts & Theory

March 28, 2013

A Really Good Underwater Housing

This is the kind of story that restores my hope for humanity … and makes me want to get an underwater housing for my camera.

Categories Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

March 28, 2013

Legal? Yes. Right? Uhhh …

In another case of the paparazzi having a run-in with a celebrity and his family, USA Today is reporting about the son of Sean Penn cursing at a videographer. So, issue one, does anyone really still care about Sean Penn? Issue two, why does anyone care this much about any celebrity? (Yeah, there’s my whole the world is doomed because...

Categories Thoughts & Theory

March 27, 2013

Cal Whipple Has Passed

His is not a name many of us know, but his work during World War II in ending military censorship changed the way we understand wars. David W. Dunlop at The New York Times wrote the story about how Cal Whipple went up the chain of command to get George Strock’s photo of three dead Americans published. Mr. Whipple and...

Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism

March 27, 2013

On Fauxtojournalism

I want to give Alex Garcia at the Chicago Tribune an award. A plaque, a statue, name a bridge after him, something, anything, as a token of thanks for his latest Assignment Chicago blog entry. This has become a must-read for everyone of my students. And I think maybe every student of journalism, everywhere. The thoughts are not necessarily new,...

Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

March 26, 2013

Was Your Road Trip Like This?

Nice gallery up over at CNN.com looking at the work of Paul McDonough did while road tripping across America in the 1970s. Some fun stuff in there, makes me rethink how to shoot my vacation photos.

Categories Craft/Photojournalism

March 25, 2013

Learn About Snow Fall

On Tuesday, John Branch from The New York Times will be talking about the stunning Snow Fall project he wrote late last year. If you haven’t experienced – and that’s a deliberate word choice – this, you have to click on the link. He will be speaking at 12:30 in the Tate Reception Hall, which is on the first floor...

Categories Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

March 25, 2013

Six Questions You Should Ask

Okay, so this is coming off of a PR website, but it’s still an excellent string of questions you should ask on your next job interview. We all spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to answer questions, hoping that will convince the person on the other side of the table to hire us. What many don’t...

Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Journalism

March 25, 2013

Still Focused, and Focusing, After 45 Years

Nice piece about Richmond Times Dispatch photojournalist Bob Brown online today, who is coming up on 45 years of shooting at the same paper. And it’s not a retirement story, either – the 75 year old is continuing on. (Thanks to Donald Winslow for the link.)

Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism

March 25, 2013

Sneaking Into Iraq, Ten Years Ago

Yunghi Kim has a story up on National Geographic’s site about her efforts to get into Iraq at the start of the war a decade ago. I hesitated before posting this because a casual read may encourage others to try what she did, to cause others to believe this wasn’t as difficult or harrowing as it probably was. With a...

Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism