Journalism – Page 13 – Visual Journalism

November 3, 2013

If You Limit Access, You Are Not Transparent

The Associated Press’ Santiago Lyons is, again, arguing that President Obama’s administration has become one of the most restrictive of press rights. Much of what we are seeing released by the White House is propaganda, according to Lyons in an article at The Daily Caller by Robby Soave. Evidence: The AP has only been permitted to photograph the president alone...

Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism

November 2, 2013

On Layoffs and White Boards

Sad day for the Middletown, New York, community as the Times Herald-Record has laid off its entire photo staff, according to a story by Donald Winslow on the National Press Photographers Association’s web site. What’s next for visual journalism? Well, if the Chicago Sun-Times is any indication (remember, they let their entire photography staff go earlier this year), the Middletown...

Business & Industry/Journalism/Photojournalism

November 2, 2013

Sources Matter in Breaking News

Steve Fox, who professes journalism at the University of Massachusetts, took on CNN’s Jake Tapper during Friday’s Los Angeles shootings, starting by asking for sources on information Tapper was posting. Tapper’s response? the time for your sourcing lecture is not right now, professor. Ahem. First, Fox asked for a source and wasn’t lecturing. Second, FACTS STILL MATTER. And facts come...

Ethics & Legal/Journalism

October 8, 2013

McGill Symposium on Wednesday

For those near Athens, on Wednesday, October 9, we will be having our annual McGill Symposium on Journalistic Courage here at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. This is a series of four discussions, the opening one being with the Boston Globe’s John Tlumacki who was at the finish line of this year’s Boston Marathon....

Advice & Learning/Journalism/Photojournalism

October 2, 2013

The Fifth Estate Screening in Athens

FYI … There will be a screening of THE FIFTH ESTATE on Wednesday October, 9th at the Tate Theatre (in Athens, Georgia) at 8:00pm. SYNOPSIS: Triggering our age of high-stakes secrecy, explosive news leaks and the trafficking of classified information, WikiLeaks forever changed the game. Now, in a dramatic thriller based on real events, “The Fifth Estate” reveals the quest...

Journalism/Video

September 30, 2013

The Obligation of the Photojournalist

Over at PhotoFocus, Richard Harrington has a post up on our obligations as visual storytellers. And it’s different, and I agree: Start showing the world what type of place it can be. Document the good works that happen in your world. Showcase the causes and people that need volunteers and money. Give of your time to help others, but most...

Advice & Learning/Craft/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

September 24, 2013

McGill Symposium on Journalistic Courage

For those near Athens, on Wednesday, October 9, we will be having our annual McGill Symposium on Journalistic Courage here at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. This is a series of four discussions, the opening one being with the Boston Globe’s John Tlumacki who was at the finish line of this year’s Boston Marathon....

Journalism/Photojournalism

September 24, 2013

The Value of IDs

My good friend Billy Weeks was interviewed by WUTC radio about a nearly 60 year old photo of a Chattanooga, Tennessee, couple. Why the interest? It was shot by Robert Frank for his The Americans project – but no one knows who they are. Frank never collected caption information and this couple, shot in the mid 1950s in the south,...

Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

September 18, 2013

John Stewart on the Washington Shooting Coverage

The Daily Show’s John Stewart on the coverage of Monday’s shootings in Washington, D.C.: So my final, not initial, conclusion is: This is deliberate. The chaos, the vomit onto the screen, the very thing we thought news organizations were created to clarify, is a feature not a bug. This is worth part of your day. Unfortunately, the need to fill...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Journalism

September 16, 2013

A Flower for the Graves, 50 Years On

It has been fifty years since Gene Patterson published A Flower for the Graves. If you’ve never read it, take the time to. It’s a stunning piece, his call to action after the 1963 Birmingham church bombing that killed four children. Only we can trace the truth, Southerner — you and I. We broke those children’s bodies. We watched the...

Good Work/Journalism/Thoughts & Theory

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