Category: Business & Industry

November 5, 2015

We Are Not the Enemy

Reading through Niko Koppel’s New York Times piece on the conviction of New York City police officer Michael Ackermann is both discouraging and encouraging. Discouraging in that photographer Robert Stolarik was arrested and charged in 2012 for doing a legally permitted thing, encouraging that Ackermann may now spend time in jail for his unlawful actions and lying in court. But...

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

November 3, 2015

Layoffs at National Geographic

Not a good day as 21st Century Fox takes over National Geographic.

Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

November 2, 2015

The Aesthetics of Death

Over at Salon.com, Scott Timberg talks with David Shields about his new book, War is Beautiful. Shields has gone through nearly 20 years of front pages from The New York Times and pulled images of conflict that he feels are, well, beautiful and raises the question of whether modern conflict photographers are still reporting on the horrors of war.

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

November 2, 2015

There is a Time …

… and it was yesterday that you needed to check the time settings on your cameras. Dig into those menus and set your clock back an hour. This is also a good time to check the minutes setting, too, as many modern cameras have a tendency to drift. At least until the Swiss start making cameras, checking the time stamp...

Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

October 26, 2015

Are We Ready for DRM on Photos?

That’s a good question to start pondering, because according to Rob Price at Business Insider, the Joint Photographics Expert Group (look at their acronym to determine if they’re important) is looking at incorporating digital rights management technology into web-accessible images. Will this change everything for the better, allowing us to protect our work and receive the compensation we need to...

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

October 26, 2015

If I Asked, Would You Work for Me Free?

I’m curious how many of my friends would do a job gratis. Apparently, Levi Wiggins at PetaPixel thought the same thing. He says the results were mixed, but I’m a little more optimistic.

Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

October 20, 2015

NPR Internships

Deadlines for NPR’s winter and spring internships are approaching, here’s what you need to know to apply.

Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism

October 16, 2015

The Paparazzi Business Crashes

Nice piece by Claudia Rosenbaum on BuzzFeed (yeah, I went there) on the decline of the paparazzi business. Maybe now we can start to focus on real stories about real people doing real things? (Thanks to John Harrington for the link.)

Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

October 13, 2015

Big List of Internships

Benjamin Mullin at the Poynter Institute has pulled together a list of 70 internships – a quick search shows the word photo popping 24 times. Get your resume together.

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

September 24, 2015

Photojournalism Ethics Study

Released yesterday by the University of Stirling, the World Press Photo Foundation and the University of Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, a substantial report on ethics in photojournalism drawn from a world-wide sample. I’m still digging through this as there is a lot of data, but I’d start with section 3.4 – that’s the ethics debate and...

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