Category: Journalism

September 16, 2013

Federal Shield Law out of Committee

The Senate Judiciary Committee has sent a bill out to the full Senate to establish a federal shield law. I still have questions about whether a shield law should protect journalists or journalism, but I’m happy something is happening here. A lot of news and industry organizations signed on in support of this. Thanks to Al Tompkins at the Poynter...

Categories Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism

September 11, 2013

No, We Don’t Need Photo Editors …

… those computer algorithms can handle things. Mostly. Or not. At all. I … I don’t even know where to start with something like this.

Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism

September 3, 2013

Great Community Journalism

Every newspaper does the football previews, how many do a special section on the bands? Now I want to teach a summer session class that focuses on covering marching band camp … (Thanks to AJ Reynolds for the link.)

Categories Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

August 28, 2013

SCOTUSblog Event

The University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication will be hosting a one-day event that focuses on the Peabody Award winning SCOTUSblog. Scheduled for Monday, Sept. 9, in the auditorium of the Special Collections Library, the event will kick off at 8:45 a.m. and is open to the public.

Categories Ethics & Legal/Journalism

August 21, 2013

Introvert or Extrovert?

Which side of the vert do you fall on? And does it matter? Perhaps … over at The Online Photographer, Michael Johnston takes a look at that idea.

Categories Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

August 20, 2013

Time for New Ethical Standards?

A colleague, Barry Hollander, pointed me to this piece on PBS’ MediaShift where Stephen Ward argues that we cannot modify our traditional journalism ethics codes, we must tear them down and build new ones. Go read it, then have your blood pressure taken and come back here … Among other items, I take issue with this: Ethics of interpretation and...

Categories Ethics & Legal/Journalism

August 18, 2013

Protecting Journalism, not Journalists

Over at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Morgan Weiland looks at the latest version of the Senate’s federal shield law and points out some of the problems with it. The big one is simple – journalism is what needs to be protected, not the journalists who commit the acts. All of the proposed legislation right now seems to be aimed at...

Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism

August 9, 2013

Photographing Photographers

Always a challenge … The New York Times’ Fred R. Conrad talks about photographing Joel Meyerowitz … I missed this last year, not sure how. NYTimes Lens: Photographing the Photographer from Elaisha Stokes on Vimeo.

Categories Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism

August 8, 2013

Why Bezos Buying the Post Makes Sense … to Me

My Twitter, Facebook and RSS feeds have all been overflowing with comments on the news that Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos bought the venerable Washington Post earlier this week. Most are filled with confusion, some derision, but it wasn’t until I read John Cassidy’s piece in the New Yorker that my thoughts were clarified. Because I completely disagree with him. I...

Categories Journalism/Thoughts & Theory

August 5, 2013

Jeff Bezos Buys the Washington Post

Stunning news – Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has bought the Washington Post for $250 million. Note that it’s Bezos and not Amazon.com. I’m … speechless.

Categories Business & Industry/Journalism