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July 8, 2011

NPPA Announces Short Grants for Community Stories

FYI … DURHAM, NC (July 8, 2011) – The National Press Photographers Association is pleased to announce the 2011 Short Grants program, five grants of $3,000 each that will be awarded to support photojournalists who are creating compelling picture stories in their communities. “Budgets for newsrooms are shrinking and one of the greatest victims is the community photo story,” NPPA...

Business & Industry/Competitions/Photojournalism

July 6, 2011

We Are Not Always Sartorially Splendid

Jeff Wignall over at Black Star Rising writes in defense of the photographer’s vest. Yes, I own one. Yes, I have owned several. Why? Because I wore them out. Because they are functionally superior in many ways and I am not vain. Stop laughing. My favorite is the now-discontinued Banana Republic vest (which now appears to be made again and...

At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 6, 2011

For Summer Interns: Your Personal Matrix

We are going to step far afield of our usual sources this morning … Jodi Glickman at the, ahem Harvard Business Review writes about evaluating your summer internship as you hit the midway point. It’s an excellent read, something that I’m tucking away to talk with my students about before the next batch is heading off into internship-land. (Which, by...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism/Photojournalism

July 1, 2011

Ricoh Buys Pentax

Hoya, which bought the Pentax brand in 2008, has announced they are selling the camera brand to Ricoh for $128 million. While neither are major players in the photojournalism realm, this could have a cascading effect as other manufacturers decide to merge or buy out smaller, innovative companies. (Thanks to Jeff Snyder at Adorama for the link on Twitter.)

Business & Industry/Tech Talk

July 1, 2011

John Stanmeyer on the Long Term Story

National Geographic shooter John Staneyer is starting a series of blog posts about working on in-depth pieces for the yellow-bordered magazine. From his first post, comes this bit of wisdom: Some stories visually speak for themselves — war/conflict, social revolutions, famine and other event driven stories are primarily (though not all) about recording the occurrence transpiring before us. Long term...

At Work/Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

June 30, 2011

Is Your Brand Amongst the 100 Most Reputable?

Forbes has posted a listing of the 100 most reputable companies in the world and there are a handful of photo-related ones on there. Canon comes in at number 8, Kodak is on there at number 41 and Fujifilm is at 47. Sony, Nokia, Apple, Microsoft and Panasonic also make the list in various places. As Michael Zhang at PetaPixel.com...

Business & Industry/Tech Talk

June 30, 2011

World War II in Photos

The Atlantic’s In Focus photo blog has started a 20 part series looking back at World War II through photos. The first two segments are up and are a telling look at where photojournalism was in the 1930s. Worth a bit of time.

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism

June 28, 2011

What Students Should Do with Their Summer Break

Michael P. King gives a list of tips over on the NPPA Visual Student blog about what photojournalism students should be doing this summer to improve their portfolio. I’d add a 13th: Make yourself uncomfortable. Self-assign yourself a project or single image that is so wildly beyond what you’re used to doing that it makes you sweat, that you can’t...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

June 25, 2011

Is Branding Bad?

Gene Weingarten at the Washington Post takes on the idea of building your brand as a journalist. It’s an interesting, idealistic, ingenious read … that I mostly disagree with, which makes me a little sick. I want so badly to go back to where I started, which is maybe a little different from where Weingarten started: When I was a...

Business & Industry/Craft/Journalism

June 25, 2011

Total Geek Out: Web Stats

Steve Yelvington takes a quick look at the latest advancement from Google, Instant Pages, and why it may wreak havoc on your web metrics and your sever load. I am not an expert on this, nor do I really have any desire to become one, but it still seems to me that selling ads based on page views is purely...

Business & Industry/Graphic Design/Tech Talk

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