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June 11, 2012

New Orleans News

If you follow the media, you know it’s been a rough few weeks down in New Orleans. The Times-Picayune announced it was cutting back on its printed edition, dropping to just three days a week. The response, as you’d expect, has been fairly strong with a lot of people questioning how a city the size of New Orleans is “losing”...

Business & Industry/Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

June 10, 2012

Revisiting the BBC-Syria Massacre Image

Several weeks ago I linked to a piece by John Harrington about a photo the BBC published claiming to be from a massacre in Syria. As a quick recap, the BBC published a photo they were sent from an “activist” that claimed to show rows of white-clad bodies, the victims of a massacre in Houla. The problem was the images...

Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Thoughts & Theory

June 6, 2012

50 Tips in 15 Minutes

Not completely safe for work, but over at DigitalRev, they’ve got 50 photo tips in under 15 minutes. I disagree with a few, but this is not a bad place to point someone who is just starting out. (Thanks to Jill P. Mott for the lead.)

Journalism

June 5, 2012

New Alexia Foundation Site is Live

Wow … the new web site for the Alexia Foundation is up and it looks awesome. Well worth spending some time there.

Competitions/Journalism/Photojournalism

May 31, 2012

Syracuse University Student Killed While Reporting in Syria

The Daily Orange is reporting that Syracuse University graduate student Bassel Al Shahade was killed while filming government attacks on citizens in Homs, Syria. Al Shahade was a graduate student in the university’s College of Visual and Performing Arts.

At Work/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Video

May 23, 2012

NPR Creates Team to Build News Apps

Steve Myers at the Poynter Institute on NPR putting a big bet on news applications, hiring a team of seven to build them. Man, I wish I knew how to code …

Journalism/Multimedia

May 7, 2012

John Filo on the Kent State Massacre

The Newseum has a short interview up with John Filo who, as a student at Kent State University in 1970, made the iconic and Pulitzer Prize winning image of one of four students killed by the National Guard. He gives some of the background of what happened that day along with his own reactions to it. (Thanks to Mickey Osterreicher...

At Work/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

May 6, 2012

The Anarchists and Photographers

I don’t know you you deal with a group of people who don’t believe in the law or even basic human rights, but if you’re a member of the media covering anything to do with organized anarchists (is that possible?), you’d better know they want nothing more than to steal your cameras to pay their rent.

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism

May 3, 2012

OOOOOhhhhhh – Graphics Geeks Can Celebrate!

The New York Times has a new blog over on Tumblr – and it looks at the “chartsnthings” they create for different data driven stories. How did I not know this existed?

Graphic Design/Journalism

May 2, 2012

Finally: Metadata to Replace Reporters

Publishers have been scaling back photo staffs for decades, handing ever-improving point and shoot cameras to reporters. Now, Matt Richardson has reversed this and built a “camera” that will write about what it has photographed. (News coverage available from Cnet.) So, publishers? Time to start laying off the reporting staff and expanding the photo department again!

Journalism/Tech Talk

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