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October 5, 2011

Great Audio Piece from NPR

NPR’s Zoe Chace has a story this morning on the protesters who are taking part in the Occupy Wall Street movement. It’s an inside look at how they communicate, how they make decisions – and it flows so nicely, really seamless editing on this piece. Worth a listen.

Craft/Journalism

October 3, 2011

Even More Failure

David Cohn over at the MediaShift Idea Lab wrote about the Seven Barriers to Failure when it comes to journalism and innovation. I cannot stress how important failure is in our current environment. The old ways of committing acts of journalism just don’t work anymore – we have to try new things. And that means some of them, a lot...

Craft/Thoughts & Theory

September 29, 2011

Behind E:60

The crew of ESPN’s E:60 show has a Production Notes blog that tells the stories of telling their stories. If you’re interested in sports video storytelling, worth sticking in your RSS reader.

Craft/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

September 26, 2011

Fiction, Out of Focus

There’s a novel to be released later this week, an English translation of Susana Fortes’ Waiting for Robert Capa. Originally published in Spanish, it is based on the romantic relationship between Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, who was killed in Spain in 1937. I’ve thrown it into my shopping cart, will let you know how it is … if I...

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September 16, 2011

Commit. You Must Commit

A few weeks ago I handed every single one of my photojournalism students a camera kit. It’s theirs to use through the semester, to complete assignments, to learn on. The catch, of course, is that they have to use it. If they don’t, there’s no real point in taking these classes. So I tell them I expect it to be...

Advice & Learning/Craft

September 14, 2011

On Patience

Over at the New York Times’ Lens blog, Kerri MacDonald has a short interview up with Jared Soares where he talks about the impact of one of my favorite images by Sam Abell. I remember studying that photo for hours. I would look at that photo, then I would run off to a country fair and I would try to...

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September 14, 2011

To Increase and Diffuse

If you’ve been here a while, you know how big a fan I am of Joe McNally. I’ve seen him speak a dozen times or more, stood in a room with him while he led a small lighting workshop, hung strobes in a diner in Syracuse as part of that and have studied every book and image he’s published. The...

Advice & Learning/Craft/Thoughts & Theory

September 13, 2011

What is Fine Art?

Over at Shutterfinger, Gordon Lewis has a take on how you define “fine art” these days. Using a list from Alain Briot, I think the first one eliminates all of photojournalism and documentary photography: 1. Fine art photography is first about the artist. I have no problem with art (aside from an inherent inability to understand an awful lot of...

Craft/Thoughts & Theory

September 9, 2011

Ten Years Later

Thomas E. Franklin made one of the iconic images from the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks of three fire fighters raising a flag amidst the rubble of the collapsed World Trade Center. To mark the tenth anniversary of that horrible day, he has put together a short documentary that talks to several of the photojournalists who were there that day....

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September 8, 2011

Finding Your Audience

All of the students in our (recently renamed) Visual Journalism emphasis are required to have a blog set up AND to post to it on a regular basis. Their target audience, though, is me. I read it, I critique it and I comment on it. The hope is that they’re sharing it with others, in which case this post by...

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