Business & Industry – Page 81

June 29, 2010

Ahh, Is it Time for Real Advertising Metrics?

I have said for quite some time now that web sites and the advertisers that support them need to move away from the classic model of page views determining ad revenue. Aside from the design disaster that this entails (do you really like having to click and load 20 new pages to look at a photo gallery?), I believe that...

Business & Industry

June 23, 2010

New America Media Presentations

I took a ride out to the Gwinnett campus of the University of Georgia last week to do a pair of presentations for New America Media. I was asked to post them online so they could share, so here they are, along with links to the stories I showed. Multimedia on the Cheap Growing Up With the Black Forest Bakery...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry

June 23, 2010

Journalists and the Law

Not in a cout-of-law sense, but an on-the-street sort of law, journalists are seeing increased awareness of the presence by law enforcement personnel – and not necessarily in a good way. A recent article on Gizmodo highlighted several instances of questionable arrests and detainments. Al Tompkins at the Poynter Institute went a few steps further in talking with a couple...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Journalism

June 14, 2010

The Twists and Turns of Copyright Violations

This is just strange … a photojournalist in Haiti posted photos shot moments after the earthquake earlier this year and posted them online, linking to them via Twitter. Agence-France Presse picked up the photos and distributed them … without getting his permission. He complained, sent cease and desist orders and sent them a bill. Now, AFP is suing the photojournalist...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal

May 25, 2010

Going Mobile in Philly

Damon Kiesow has a great article up on the Poynter Institute web site about Jim MacMillan, a veteran Daily News shooter who has more Twitter followers than Katie Couric does. Lots of great advice in there, including this: Ideas are a dime a dozen. Everybody has ideas. Go do something. Well said.

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism

May 22, 2010

Job Tips from an Old Guy in New Media

This is an important read not just for our recent graduates but for everyone of our students – Steve Buttry has posted his tips for finding a journalism job in the digital world. I’ve made some semi-random comments about similar thoughts in the past, but that’s one of the best collections of them I’ve seen. My Advanced Photojournalism students this...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry

May 19, 2010

This, This is INSANE

This has popped up about seven times in my Twitter feed this morning … the Morgantown (West Virginia) Dominion Post removed three politicians from a photo because they were running for office. The photo had nothing to so with the campaign, it had to do with a legislative bill they had co-sponsored and the governor was signing into law. The...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal

May 17, 2010

200 Moments in the 2000s that Transformed Journalism

This is pretty cool and I’m going to have to spend more time with it. David Shedden, director of Poynter’s Eugene Patterson Library, has assembled a list of the 200 moments that transformed journalism in the first decade of this century. Some quick highlights: 2000: 12 billion e-mails are sent per day during 2000. In 2008, 247 billion e-mails are...

Business & Industry

May 14, 2010

The 10 Traits of a Winning Photojournalist

Alex Garcia, over at the Chicago Tribune, as a list of what he thinks are the 10 things that separate the good from the great in our craft. I think he’s missing one, though: A love of people and community. If you don’t care about your subjects and your audience, then you’re only shooting for your own ego and that...

Business & Industry/Craft

May 10, 2010

Does Quality Matter?

It’s a question that no one wants to ask or answer, it seems. As journalism organizations scale back their operations, they’re looking more and more to “contributed” material to fill space and time. What’s the result? Well, aside from all sorts of ethical problems, the technical quality tends to be pretty bad, too. Of course, this quote from a New...

Business & Industry/Journalism/Tech Talk

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