July 9, 2012 Naw, Shooting Sports Isn’t Dangerous Except, you know, when it is … (Thanks to Alicia Wagner Calzada for the link.) Categories At Work/Photojournalism
July 7, 2012 Looking For a Job? The New Orleans CityBusiness is looking for a new reporter – and they’ve written one of the best job ads ever. Great advice can be gleaned from that post – would you be ready to apply? Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
July 2, 2012 The Story Behind Capa’s D-Day Images I have known this story for decades, but John Morris, a Life magazine picture editor in London during World Was II, recounts the whole story of how Robert Capa’s legendary Normandy landing images came to be. What ever happened to the rest of the damaged film? I wonder if we could send it to Hollywood and have those CSI-computers fix... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism
June 14, 2012 NPPA Short Grants 2012 Still a few weeks off, but you should be getting your plans together to apply for one of six National Press Photographers Association Short Grants. The $3,000 grants are designed to help promote community photo stories, “small in scale and focused.” Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism
June 11, 2012 Beneath the Lively Morgue A while back, The New York Times launched a new Tumblr site, The Lively Morgue, that features archival prints and shows the backside, the notes and captions. It’s kind of addictive. Now, NPR’s Claire o’Neill has the story behind the site and talks with Jeff Roth, the last man in the photo morgue. Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism
June 6, 2012 Covering Court from the Outside Over at The New York Times’ Lens blog, Kim Severson gives us a glimpse into what covering the John Edwards trial in North Carolina was like. And it wasn’t pretty – no cameras were allowed during the six-week long trial, so the media had to set up camp outside the courthouse and wait. I have done the so-called “perp walk”... Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism
May 31, 2012 Syracuse University Student Killed While Reporting in Syria The Daily Orange is reporting that Syracuse University graduate student Bassel Al Shahade was killed while filming government attacks on citizens in Homs, Syria. Al Shahade was a graduate student in the university’s College of Visual and Performing Arts. Categories At Work/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Video
May 16, 2012 USA Today Will Not Send Staff Photographers to the Olympics Uh … well then. John Harrington is reporting that USA Today has decided not to send any of its staff shooters to London this summer, instead having US Presswire cover it for them. (Gannett bought US Presswire last year, a wire service-agency sort of thing that has been criticized in the past for credentialing its credentialing policies.) Romenesko has the... Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism
May 7, 2012 John Filo on the Kent State Massacre The Newseum has a short interview up with John Filo who, as a student at Kent State University in 1970, made the iconic and Pulitzer Prize winning image of one of four students killed by the National Guard. He gives some of the background of what happened that day along with his own reactions to it. (Thanks to Mickey Osterreicher... Categories At Work/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism
May 4, 2012 Copyright Office Planning to Raise Registration Fees FYI The NPPA is disappointed to report that the U.S. Copyright Office is planning to nearly double the cost of registering your images. They have provided the opportunity for public comment prior to the change and NPPA will be submitting comments regarding the change. The changes include increases in the cost of group registration of images from $35 to $65.... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism