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April 23, 2013

Why Student Stories Matter

Former Boston University student Johannes Hirn shot a story several years ago about an immigrant who wanted to box his way into America. That immigrant was Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the two alleged bombers from the Boston Marathon. I just hope the site the Boston University News Service is linking to has licensed those images … (Thanks to Prof. Denise...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism

April 22, 2013

Why the Photographer Matters

I don’t talk much about shooting weddings here, but I know a lot of my students and readers either shoot or think about doing those happy day photos. There’s a lot of value in it, both financial and creative. But you don’t want to get too creative, if you can call this creative – the Daily Mail has the story...

At Work/Business & Industry

April 21, 2013

The Kiss, and Camera, That Counted

This is one of those weeks where I wish I had $60,000 just sort of hanging around. An autographed print of Alfred Eisenstadt’s V-J Day celebration kiss is going up for auction in Austria along with the camera he used to make the photo in 1945. I am not one to collect things for the sake of collecting them, but...

Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism

April 18, 2013

The Dangers of Online Publishing

One of the biggest fears of photographers at the advent of the web was the ease with which you could “steal” an image. A simple click and it was on someone else’s hard drive. It’s still an issue – on Tuesday, one Steve Goldstein published an ebook on Amazon titled Boston Bombing – First Photos. And, you guessed it, it...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

April 16, 2013

Catching Cover Letters

Andrew Lamberson walks through his process of writing a cover letter for a job at The New York Times Magazine – and it’s a very different approach. Read the piece to see what happened. (Thanks to Sean Elliot for the link.)

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

April 15, 2013

As I Am

UGA alumni Alan Spearman and Mark Adams have been honored with a first place in the National Press Photographers Association’s Best Use of Multimedia for their work on Memphis Poverty: What Obama Didn’t See. Pull up a chair and dig in – the video is narrated by Chris Dean, who grew up in Memphis in some pretty difficult situations, but...

Business & Industry/Competitions/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Video

April 6, 2013

UGA VJ Alums Win All the Things

Word filtered out yesterday that two alums from my program here at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication sort of, well, won all of the things in the Georgia Press Association’s January clip contest. Sara Caldwell, a 2011 grad, and Jon-Michael Sullivan, a 2010 grad, are both on staff at the Augusta Chronicle and about...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Competitions/Photojournalism

April 5, 2013

Presidential Propaganda

Over at the National Journal, Ron Fournier takes aim at the limited press access being granted by the White House. Again, for those not following along, “news” delivered by the White House is not journalism. Information, yes, but not journalism. There will be a test at the end of the semester on this. (Thanks to Susan Walsh for the link.)

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism

April 4, 2013

NPPF Scholarship Deadline Approaching

Less than two weeks now until the application dealing for the National Press Photographers Foundation scholarships. You could score $2,000 – why not try?

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

April 3, 2013

Choosing Your News Source

Technology has changed the way many of us learn information. Used to be, you went to the library or turned to the news. One was old and out of date, the other was in a big building downtown. (Insert rimshot, which one of my students now keeps loaded on her laptop during class … I love these kids.) We do...

Business & Industry/Craft/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

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