Category: Business & Industry

May 30, 2013

Processing, Second Post

I know I already posted that the Chicago Sun-Times has decided to layoff what appears to be their entire photo staff, but I’ve been processing this for another hour or so. And, still, I’m dumbfounded. It goes against everything we know about delivering the news, that you need to have as many channels as possible for your audience to choose...

Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

May 30, 2013

What Are They Thinking?

Chicago Sun-Times edition: multiple reports that the newspaper has laid off its entire staff of 20 photographers.

Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism

May 23, 2013

More on Morel Copyright Claim Against AFP and Getty

In 2010, photojournalist Daniel Morel was working in Haiti when the devastating earthquake struck. He started shooting immediately and posted several photos to Twitter. Agence France-Press, a wire service, picked up eight of this images, transmitting them to their clients and passing them off to Getty Images, a photo agency. However, neither AFP nor Getty had permission, so Morel has...

Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

May 23, 2013

Arresting (App) Developments

If you haven’t seen it and you’re a fan of the Arrested Development series, you have to head over to NPR’s web site to see this insane, inside-joke app they created. Then, head over to the Poynter Institute where Andrew Beaujon has interviewed it’s creator, Adam Cole, who says it started as a bit of a hobby project. And for...

Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Graphic Design/Journalism/Tech Talk

May 16, 2013

Start Selling Journalism

This may be the best ad campaign I’ve ever seen for a news organization … Nail has created a campaign for the Providence Journal and it is brilliant. (For mobile viewers, the video is in Flash, sorry about that.) (Thanks to Seth Siditsky for the lead.)

Categories Business & Industry/Journalism

May 15, 2013

The Perfect Portfolio

Over at the National Press Photographers Association’s web site, Jim Colton has put together a series of posts on building the perfect portfolio. In the third part of the series, he quotes MaryAnne Golon of the Washington Post: You need to care deeply about every image in your portfolio. If you don’t care about your pictures, why would anyone else?...

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

May 15, 2013

Leading Off Changes

The opening pages of Sports Illustrated have featured some of the best sports photojournalism of the week for years. The new director of photography at the magazine, Brad Smith, is moving towards changing that format for one that tells stories with a lot more depth.

Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism

May 8, 2013

Adobe Moving to Full Subscription Model

The news came out a few days ago that Adobe will not release a seventh iteration of its Creative Suite software, instead moving to a subscription model called Creative Cloud. And then my email, Twitter, RSS and Facebook accounts all exploded with rage about how THOSE GREEDY BASTARDS DON’T UNDERSTAND I NEED TO PIRATE THEIR SOFTWARE SO I CAN DO...

Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Tech Talk

May 5, 2013

Building Connections

The International Center of Photography has announced their Infinity Awards recognizing outstanding achievements in photography. Eight awards were given and MediaStorm produced films on each of the winners. David Guttenfelder’s is a great look into how his work out of North Korea has come about. If you mouse over the right side, you can see the play list and watch...

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Competitions/Craft/Photojournalism

April 24, 2013

Photographic Privacy

The laws regarding our ability to make photographs in public places is pretty clear here in the United States. Across the ocean, though, the French are struggling to redefine privacy.

Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism