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July 6, 2015

New Principles and Practices for the White House Proposed

The White House Correspondents’ Association has put out a series of ideals it hopes the White House will adopt when it comes to access to presidents and their staff. It does address the limited visual access for still and motion photographers: As a general principle, the White House should not use its own videographers and photographers as a replacement for...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism

June 30, 2015

Green With Greed or Envy

Major kudos to The Irish Times for refusing to sign Taylor Swift’s contract and not publishing any images from the first of her two shows in Dublin. Not only that, they explained to their readers why they chose not to photograph her performance. I hope this is the start of a trend.

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

June 5, 2015

My Local Newsroom is Lying to Me … AGAIN (Updated)

Two months ago, I took my local publication – the Athens Banner-Herald – to task here for deceiving its readers with the misuse of a photograph. They had a wire story about “4 twisters confirmed in Georgia after weekend storms” and a very dramatic photo of TWO tornadoes. It didn’t seem right, and after some research I found that the...

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

May 19, 2015

Journalists and Stress

Beginning of a new series by Gabriel Arana at the Huffington Post on journalists and stress, hopeful that this will go a little deeper into how we deal with it. But, even if it just raises awareness of the issues, it’s beneficial – too often we brush off what we’ve seen and documented and move on. It doesn’t work. What...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

April 29, 2015

The Hawkins Axiom

I’d never heard of the Hawkins Axiom until just a few moments ago, but now I’ll teach it to my kids. So far this morning we’ve had four discussions about pricing photography. It’s that time of the year, for sure …

Business & Industry/Photojournalism

April 24, 2015

Mark Edelson Has Passed

Sad news this morning – we’ve lost Mark Edelson, a legendary picture editor, to cancer. I never worked for Mr. Edelson, but I did have a handful of opportunities to talk with him over the years. Always short conversations, but powerful. He was the first person I ever talked to about what it means to be a Picture Editor –...

Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

April 22, 2015

On Working for Free

Over at The Online Photographer, Michael Johnston takes on the idea of working for free … and how many people will complain about what you provide. For free. There’s that problem: you can’t assume goodwill in response to an accommodation. Doing work for free is just as likely to disqualify you for future jobs as it is likely to qualify...

Business & Industry/Photojournalism

April 20, 2015

Pulitzer Prize Awarded to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Staff and Daniel Berehulak for the NY Times

Congratulations to the staff of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for their Breaking News Pulitzer Prize and to Daniel Berehulak, working for The New York Times, for Feature Photography. The Post-Dispatch’s work is on the Pulitzer site. There’s a gallery of Berehuglak’s work, as well. Stellar work from both.

Business & Industry/Competitions/Photojournalism

April 20, 2015

Getting Your Internship

The Associated Press Photo Managers will be hosting a Google hangout on Wednesday, April 22, at 1 p.m., to talk about getting an internship and making the most of it. Great group of people will be on it: Emily Bogle (NPR), Danny Gawlowski (Seattle Times), Andrea Morales (Freelance) and Adam Wolffbrandt (Western Kentucky). Get it on your calendar now.

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

April 6, 2015

Formalizing Copyright Infringement Notices

Entomologist Alex Wild has created an FAQ to deal with people who have received a legal notice that they have infringed upon his copyright. Well worth a read.