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? Categories 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 One was old and out of date, the other was in a big building downtown.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... Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
April 3, 2013 Mini Micro Stock? The must-read blog, A Photo Editor, put up a post yesterday that is not an April Fool’s Day joke about Getty Images sending out a note regarding sub-penny royalty payments. Reaction 1 – A joke, right? Must be. Reaction 2 – How in the world are they licensing images for less than a penny? Reaction 3 – Taken from the... Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism
March 27, 2013 Cal Whipple Has Passed His is not a name many of us know, but his work during World War II in ending military censorship changed the way we understand wars. David W. Dunlop at The New York Times wrote the story about how Cal Whipple went up the chain of command to get George Strock’s photo of three dead Americans published. Mr. Whipple and... Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism
March 27, 2013 On Fauxtojournalism I want to give Alex Garcia at the Chicago Tribune an award. A plaque, a statue, name a bridge after him, something, anything, as a token of thanks for his latest Assignment Chicago blog entry. This has become a must-read for everyone of my students. And I think maybe every student of journalism, everywhere. The thoughts are not necessarily new,... Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
March 25, 2013 Six Questions You Should Ask Okay, so this is coming off of a PR website, but it’s still an excellent string of questions you should ask on your next job interview. We all spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to answer questions, hoping that will convince the person on the other side of the table to hire us. What many don’t... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Journalism
March 25, 2013 Still Focused, and Focusing, After 45 Years Nice piece about Richmond Times Dispatch photojournalist Bob Brown online today, who is coming up on 45 years of shooting at the same paper. And it’s not a retirement story, either – the 75 year old is continuing on. (Thanks to Donald Winslow for the link.) Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism
March 25, 2013 Sneaking Into Iraq, Ten Years Ago Yunghi Kim has a story up on National Geographic’s site about her efforts to get into Iraq at the start of the war a decade ago. I hesitated before posting this because a casual read may encourage others to try what she did, to cause others to believe this wasn’t as difficult or harrowing as it probably was. With a... Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism
March 22, 2013 Notes on Book Publishing Yesterday, we had our second annual Business of Visual Journalism symposium here and one of our speakers, Laurie Shock from Shock Design, left a copy of her presentation to share. Since I had a lot of requests, I’ve posted it online. I did pull out a lot of the images she used because of some copyright concerns as well as... Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
March 21, 2013 The Business of Visual Journalism Today’s the day … here’s the line up, all in the Drewry Room of Grady College. If you’re nearby, stop on in. 2, Billy Howard, talking about balancing commercial and personal work 3, Laurie Shock, talking about working with photographers on book and large projects 4, How Did You Get Here?, a panel of alumni talking about how they took... Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism