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June 26, 2014

Four Photographers Named as National Geographic Explorers

The National Geographic Society has their first set of visual storytellers to be added to their Explorers program. Previous Explorers have come primarily from areas of science, research and innovation. David Guttendelder, Lyn Johnson, Cory Richards and Brian Skerry will spend two years, “sharing their visual expertise with diverse areas of the National Geographic Society and with the public, producing...

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June 17, 2014

Something to Hold Over Their Heads – Education

Three years ago, independent journalist Phillip Datz was ordered to leave a public street where a police stop was occurring. After moving, he called the Suffolk County Police Department’s public information officer who told him, essentially, he was fine. When he started to record again, Suffolk County Police Sergeant Michael Milton arrested him. Earlier on the recording Sergeant Milton said,...

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June 13, 2014

News Photographer Now Online

The National Press Photographers Association has announced that news Photographer magazine, the only publication dedicated to news photography that I know of, is now available in an online format. The current issue and last two years worth can be viewed for free right now.

Business & Industry/Photojournalism

June 12, 2014

Promote Yourself

Neat Tumblr from Photo District News on promotional pieces being sent out, triggered by this post on Dave Cooper’s.

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May 30, 2014

Overexposing Leads to Underexposure of Memories

NPR takes a look at the effect of too many photographs on memory development. The piece is aimed at families, more or less, but does it pertain to journalism, too? I think so – the sheer volume of images we are bombarded with every day is devaluing each one of them. As journalists, our goal shouldn’t be so-called “blanket coverage,”...

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May 18, 2014

Swinging Into Attack

Nice piece from a few year’s ago about the Observer’s Jane Bown, worth taking a look and read. (Thanks to Greg Mironchuk for the link.)

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April 14, 2014

The Story of Bliss

It’s going to be a stormy week here in Athens, so for all of you who have ever fired up a Windows XP machine, here’s the story behind the iconic wallpaper.

Business & Industry/Photojournalism

April 8, 2014

More Info on Business Practices

Alum Dylan Wilson sent along a link to a post by Robert Seale on business practice for photographers, a very good read. Towards the end Seale has a list of books you must own, I’ll add one more that’s due out this summer – John Harrington’s More Best Business Practices for Photographers. Harrington talked about this book at the NPPA’s...

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April 4, 2014

AP Photojournalist Shot in Afghanistan

Sad news – Associated Press photojournalist Anja Niedringhaus was, essentially, executed in Afghanistan. Reporter Kathy Gannon was also shot while sitting in a car stopped along a roadside. The two were traveling with election workers in a convoy that had stopped when a man walked up to the car and opened fire.

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April 2, 2014

Ochberg Society Exhibit in Athens

We will be hosting a traveling exhibit of images from the Ochberg Society for Trauma Journalism here at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication for the next few weeks. It opens on Thursday, April 3, with a 4 p.m. panel discussion featuring CNN’s Jan Winburn, Moni Basu and David Rust, and ShareWIK’s Diana Keough. This...

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