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
August 5, 2013 Life Tips from the Architectural World I know, I know: Not photojournalism. You know what? That’s the point. Head over to Bob Borson’s Life of an Architect and read his tips for being a better architect and a better person. Those are (some of) my goals for the coming semester, make them your own, too. Categories Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
August 3, 2013 The Boston Glove Sold The New York Times has sold the Boston Globe (and the other papers in its New England Media Group) to John Henry – the owner of the Boston Red Sox. The Times had purchased the paper in 1993 for $1.1 billion and Henry is paying, ahem, $70 million. While I'm happy the papers will be under semi-local ownership, it does... Categories Journalism
August 2, 2013 A Voice for Those Who Cannot Shout For several years, photography in Afghanistan was completely banned by the Taliban. In 2001, it came back and now there is a documentary project to tell the story of photography in the country over the last decade. Very cool. (Thanks to Andrew Mendelson for the link.) Categories Craft/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Video
July 29, 2013 Bad, Bad “Journalism” I posted this to Facebook already, but it deserves more airing. This is easily the worst interview I’ve ever seen conducted. Hands down – there’s no journalism being done here, this is an attack on author Professor Reza Aslan. If you want to question his credentials and whether he is qualified to write a book titled Zealot: The Life and... Categories Advice & Learning/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Thoughts & Theory
July 29, 2013 Stop What You’re Doing, Do Something Else Eric Maierson over at MediaStorm put up a post about getting better at storytelling. Several good ideas embedded in here, some of which have more to do with changing yourself than your subject matter. Going forward, I want to challenge the notion that the only way to do things is the way I’ve done them in the past. Yes, there... Categories Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism
July 26, 2013 Well, They Got Something Right … When an Asiana Airlines jet crashed during landing in San Francisco earlier this month, it was major news for fairly obvious reasons. Unfortunately, in an effort to be first (and not be RIGHT), KTVU aired the names of the four crew member son the cockpit as soon as it had “confirmed” them. The “confirmation,” it turned out, came from an... Categories Journalism/Video
July 26, 2013 Next Generation Video Storytelling Workshop The National Press Photographers Foundation has opened registration for the 2013 Next Generation Video Storytelling Workshop. This year’s even runs from September 13-15 and is at the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul. Lots of good people on the program. Categories Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Video
July 25, 2013 Go Walk Your Newsroom Jack Limpert writes about his days working in the Detroit UPI newsroom. Which got me thinking about my days in my last newsroom, which was almost as archaic as what he recalls. It does give us a good lesson – you don’t learn much from a screen. Sure, there’s information on a screen, but not a lot of knowledge. As... Categories At Work/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism
July 15, 2013 Who Decides Who the Real Journalists Are? The irony of linking to this is a little sickening … but Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin has penned a letter to the, ahem, Chicago Sun-Times (that bastion of journalistic excellence) about letting the government decide who is a journalist. Ack. Just … ack. Categories Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism