April 20, 2009 SEPPA Show in Athens The Southeastern Professional Photographers Association’s 2009 convention is being held later this week in Athens. Some things work looking into. Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry
April 3, 2009 Get A Job, Kid … And here’s something that may help: The Poynter Institute’s News University has an upcoming webinar on getting your first journalism job. It’s cheap, and you can do it from the comfort of your chosen coffee shop. It goes live on April 8 from 2-3 p.m. (though they usually archive them for later viewing). Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry
April 1, 2009 Can Design Save Newspapers? So asks Jacek Utko at this year’s TED conference. Categories Business & Industry/Graphic Design
March 22, 2009 Building Your Web Site Over on the Photopreneur site is a post on “How to Catch a Photo Editor’s Eye.” While not aimed at the journalism realm, there is a lot of good info in there – particularly on letting the images shine, not the web site. Personally, I think Flash is a fantastic tool for interactive design. But it can also be slow... Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Graphic Design
March 21, 2009 Juggling on Assignment Adam Westbrook, a reporter for a British radio station, talks about balancing the needs of audio, stills and video while on assignment. (Thanks to Koci at Multimedia Shooter for the link.) Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Audio/Business & Industry/Multimedia/Tech Talk/Video
March 14, 2009 Gear Guides We’re getting close to that time of the year, the time when many of my students will start fretting about graduating. And it’s not so much the Becoming a Real Person Dilemma as it is what do I need to buy? I say it often – we do a great thing here at UGA in providing gear to our students.... Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Tech Talk
March 10, 2009 UGA PJ Alumni on Verve Photo Kendrick Brinson, a 2005 UGA PJ alumni, is the current featured photographer on Verve Photo’s New Breed of Documentary Photographers project. Categories At Work/Business & Industry
March 10, 2009 Networking to Survive Over on BlogHer, Kim Pearson has a piece up on, “Survival Tips for Journalists in the New News Economy.” Two of her main ideas – that everyone is now a potential entrepreneur and that networking matters – are things students can easily latch on to and do something about. Categories At Work/Business & Industry
March 5, 2009 Weekend Workshop Round Table Talks As part of this year’s Photojournalism Weekend Workshop, we’re going to have a few informal round-table discussions on issues the editors and our students are wrestling with. The schedule is below and all of these will be held in the Photojournalism Lab (room 130 of Grady College). If you’re around and want to sit in, you’re more than welcome to... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Video
February 28, 2009 Final Edition This has been all over the web already today. It was Twittered and emailed thousands of times. But in case you missed it, the Rocky Mountain News published its final edition on Friday morning. And Matthew Roberts posted the video story, 21 minutes long. And worth every second. There are only a handful of two-newspaper cities left, Denver deserved to... Categories Business & Industry