Category: Business & Industry

IJnet has a story up about crowd-funding photojournalism projects, which is an interesting idea. A group of professionals will rate the merit of proposed stories and, those making the mark, will be put out for sourcing. Funders will get special access to the photos and behind-the-scenes stories. Is this the new model for in-depth stories? It has merits, that’s for...

Alan Taylor, the brain child behind Boston.com’s The Big Picture photo blog, is leaving for The Atlantic, according to a story on the Nieman Journalism Lab’s web site. Taylor started the blog and ran it for the last two years while continuing to do his normal web development job. At the new gig, he’ll focus just on the images. I...

The 10,000 Words site has posted Killer Tips for Acing Your Journalism Job Interview. Most of these are standard tips, but there’s detail in some of them that’s worth thinking about. In particular, knowing not only what this employer has been doing but what their competition has been up to, as well. Even if you’re going into a “newspaper” interview,...