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February 3, 2014

Storytelling Through Commercials

Al Tompkins at the Poynter Institute breaks down the storytelling in the Budweiser Super Bowl commercial. And that’s why I love Poynter – great teaching in just under eight minutes.

Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Video

February 3, 2014

Why You Shouldn’t Cut Photographers

Two sentences from Edmond Terakopian’s piece that will convince you to read it: People never remember a great article they read months ago or a great piece of video footage from years ago. They will however remember pictures they saw decades ago. And the science backs that up.

Good Work/Graphic Design/Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

February 2, 2014

On Assignment with Alex Webb

Want to know how a Magnum photojournalists thinks his way through an assignment? Here you go – Alex Webb in Korea. Love this line: I only know how to approach a place by walking. Get out of your car, sling your camera over a shoulder and just walk … (Thanks to Greg Mironchuk for the link.)

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

January 30, 2014

The Complexity of Atlanta’s Weather Problem

I have many thoughts about what happened this week in Atlanta, maybe I’ll get them all down in bits at some point. Since we’re 90 minutes outside of the downtown area, we didn’t have too many issues here in Athens. Rebecca Burns, who teaches for us here at Grady College and is also the deputy editor of target=”_blank”>Atlanta magazine, has...

Journalism

January 29, 2014

Monetizing Traffic or Content?

Very good piece over at The Atlantic by Alexis C. Madrigal on the kids behind Twitter phenom @HistoryInPics – and why it, like a few other similar endeavors, are basically stealing other people’s work for profit. The audiences that Di Petta and Cameron have built are created with the work of photographers who they don’t pay or even credit. They...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism

January 27, 2014

Anyone Can Do It

Until a few moments ago, I’d never heard of The Guardian’s Roy Greensdale. But then I read his callously and moronically written piece on 10 British photojournalists who are being made, “compulsorily redundant” and now I can feel that little twitch … To wit … No event occurs – fires, fetes, road accidents, cats up trees, whatever – without someone...

Journalism

January 23, 2014

Call Me Stodgy, I Guess

The Associated Press recently severed their relationship with a photographer who altered an image out of Syria. It was found that Narcico Contreras took out a video camera from the back of an image he transmitted in September. He also was a co-winner of the Pulitzer last year for images from Syria. From the AP story: “I took the wrong...

Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism

January 11, 2014

Illustrating the News

target=”_blank”>Great NPR piece on Maria Fabrizio and her work illustrating the news, every day. The idea is target=”_blank”>Wordless News – graphical illustrations of the top stories of the day. These aren’t political cartoons, which is amazingly refreshing, just her attempt at creating a visual story. (Thanks to target=”_blank”>Seth Gitner for the link.)

Graphic Design/Journalism/Multimedia

January 6, 2014

Gregory Heisler Talking About His Work

Last November I got to see Gregory Heisler talk at the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar – easily one of the best talks I’d ever seen there. Now, a talk he did for Ilford has been posted online. Get comfortable, this runs two hours in length … but so totally worth it.

Advice & Learning/Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

January 4, 2014

Choosing to Do Good

In less than 48 hours, I’ll have two new groups of kids sitting in the Photo Cave here in Athens. They’ll wander in to my Introduction to Photojournalism class with all sorts of backgrounds – most will have been shooting since they were very young, but most will never had thought deeply about visual storytelling. A few have known, for...

Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

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