July 6, 2014 The Letters of Dublin Neat video on the sign painters of Dublin … Gentlemen of Letters – A Dublin Sign Painting Film from Colin Brady on Vimeo. (Thanks to Khoi Vinh for the link.) Categories Craft/Graphic Design/Journalism/Tech Talk
May 6, 2014 The Camera as Tool Over on Transom.org is a piece by Mexican photojournalism Julîan Cardona that’s a must read for anyone starting out or those who need a reminder of why we do this. A photojournalist like myself is an oddity because suddenly, as if from nowhere, he appears in the lives of these people. The impression that remains from those brief encounters, ones... Categories Journalism
April 25, 2014 They Are People, Not Subjects My good friend David LaBelle is at it again, this time talking about a man he met in New York City. I can point my camera “at” you or I make a picture “with” you. One is a cowardly drive-by shooting, while the other is a collaborative, shared experience. One objectifies, capturing subjects as objects, graphic elements in a broader... Categories Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
April 15, 2014 Local Talk on Covering Grief and Loss The University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication is hosting Jessica Handler on Thursday, April 17, for a luncheon talk on covering grief and loss. It’s free and there’s pizza, why wouldn’t you want to come? Categories Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
March 18, 2014 News Chopper Down in Seattle Multiple reports that the KOMO-TV helicopter has crashed in Seattle. Categories Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Video
March 9, 2014 No Job for a Woman Thursday night, PBS will be premiering No Job for a Woman: The Women Who Fought to Report WWII and it will feature Dickie Chapelle. I have my DVR set, so should you. After watching the trailer for it, I spotted this piece, Pioneering Women War Correspondents, that includes Margaret Bourke White and Chapelle, as well. Worth 14 minutes of your... Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Journalism/Photojournalism
March 6, 2014 Journalism Still Matters Nice piece by SFGate’s David Wiegand on CBS News’ Scott Pelley, well worth a few minutes of your time. “I think people are being driven to brand names in journalism that they feel like they can trust,” he said. “Because never in human history has so much information been available to so many people, but unfortunately that also means that... Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism
March 4, 2014 For the Educators in the Audience Need to spend off a little leftover FY14 travel funding? Here’s how to do it – Poynter’s Teachapalooza is one of the best journalism educator conferences around. Three (or five) days of über nerdy, totally geeked out learning about how to better teach journalism at the university level. Disclosure: I’m on the faculty, but I paid my way for the... Categories Advice & Learning/Graphic Design/Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Video
March 4, 2014 IRE Event in Athens – April 26-27 Not purely visual, but there’s an event run by Investigative Reporters and Editors coming up in late April. Worth getting on your calendar. Categories Journalism/Tech Talk
February 19, 2014 What CNN Wants Next Great two part interview with CNN’s Victor Hernandez over at NetNewsCheck.com by Michael Depp that looks at how the future is being seen. The second part is focused on what CNN is looking for in new hires: We’re increasingly looking at things like an individual’s digital portfolio and what they’re doing with social media and how active they are on... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk