January 19, 2012 Reporter Skills, the New Baseline Steve Yelvington put up a post on the New Baseline Skill Set for reporters, worth reading and pondering. Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism/Tech Talk
January 19, 2012 Just a Matter of Time … and Why It Happened Sometimes, Twitter brings great news. Sometimes, it doesn’t … Remy Thurston, a new student of mine, sent me a direct message a little while ago: The New York Times is reporting Kodak has filed for bankruptcy protection. I could ponder this for a while, kick a stone around the parking lot, asking how the heck does this happen? But I... Categories Business & Industry/Journalism
January 18, 2012 We’re Not Blacked Out, But This Should Have Been I didn’t go offline today, I just got busy. Mostly reading about why lots of major online organizations did go offline. And, while tempted to assign a paper to my students yesterday that is due tomorrow, I decided against it. I like my students. But they also need to learn the difference between online piracy, good news sourcing and free... Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal
January 17, 2012 Return of the Staff Photographer? Over at A Photo Editor, Grayson Schaffer interviews Christopher Anderson who was just named New York Magazine’s first staff photographer. Remember staff photographers? Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism
January 6, 2012 Kodak Edges Towards Bankruptcy It’s just painful to watch … but on Thursday, shares of Kodak were trading for less than $0.50 amid speculation they would file for bankruptcy protection. Categories Business & Industry/Tech Talk
January 6, 2012 Nikon Announces the D4 Dpreview.com has a story up on the announcement of Nikon’s D4, their new top-of-the-line pro camera. They also have an overview story up … drooling a touch. Nikon’s release was posted this morning, as well. This is expected to ship in February for a suggested price of (gulp) $5,999.95. Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
January 6, 2012 Eve Arnold Passes at 99 Magnum Photos announced on Thursday that Eve Arnold has died in London at the age of 99. Arnold was the first woman admitted into the exclusive agency. “Her intimate, sensitive and compassionate 10-year collaboration with Marilyn Monroe has cemented her as one of the most iconic portrait photographers of our time, but it is the long-term reportage stories that drove... Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism
December 31, 2011 Licensing Music Made Hard David Walker has an article up at Photo District News about the troubles photographers have – and are getting into – in using copyrighted music in wedding videos. It’s hard, from all reports, to get a license for use in these videos so many photographers just do without. That’s coming back to bite some of them. I am constantly stunned... Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
December 23, 2011 Yearend Reading I’m on the road, catching up with family and friends for a while, so it will be quiet the next few days around here. But, to keep you busy, Photoshelter has posted list of what they think are the best photo blog posts of the year – that’ll keep you busy for a while. (Thanks to NPPA President Sean Elliot... Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Good Work/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism
December 22, 2011 Winter Break Project for Students Over at the NPPA Visual Student blog, Brian McDermott has posted the last of a three part series on Designing a Better Portfolio Website. Part one looked at understanding your audience and building a better structure. Part two looked at finding inspiration and developing a basic understanding of the coding that underlies all sites. Part three looks at the design... Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Graphic Design/Photojournalism