December 19, 2011 Advanced Storytelling Workshop Registration Opens FYI, registration for the NPPA’s Advanced Storytelling Workshop has opened. It’s running April 15-20 in San Marcos, Texas. Categories Advice & Learning/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism
December 14, 2011 Cute, But Bad for Your SEO I require my upper level students to have a Twitter account. Sometimes we use it extensively, sometimes we don’t. But, darn it, they have one. As journalists, I also tell them that having a private account is generally a bad thing – you want to have open lines of communication, you want your knowledge to be shared. That can’t happen... Categories Business & Industry/Journalism/Multimedia
December 13, 2011 Remembering Alexia Nice column by the Newark Star-Ledger’s Bob Braun remembering Alexia Tsairis, one of 35 Syracuse University students murdered on Dec. 21, 1988, when Pan Am 103 was blown out of the skies over Lockerbie, Scotland. Remember that the Alexia Foundation is now accepting entries for the 2012 competition. Categories Craft/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism
December 10, 2011 “Some DSLRs Are Big” That is the explanation that Wendy Neville, a spokeswoman for the London Transport Museum, gave the British Journal of Photography when they asked about a sign posted outside of the Aldwych Underground Station. Which is … odd … when you consider that the sign prompting the phone call reads: Due to their combination of high-quality sensor and high resolution, digital... Categories Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism
December 8, 2011 UGA Alumn on The Image, Deconstructed Kendrick Brinson is featured in a recent post on The Image, Deconstructed about her work in Sun City, Arizona. Love this quote: My advice is to photograph what interests and pulls you, even if it isn’t necessarily the path you think you are supposed to take. If you’re just going through the motions doing what you think a photographer is... Categories Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism
December 8, 2011 Interview Prep Mario Garcia, one of the top designers in the world, has put together a post about The Art of Preparing for the Interview – and it’s something every journalism student and journalist needs to read. It has me rethinking how I’m going to have students structure interviews for multimedia projects. Perhaps before allowing them to go out into the field,... Categories Journalism/Thoughts & Theory
December 7, 2011 MLB Issues Dress Code … for Reporters Associated Press baseball writer Ben Walker has a story out that Major League Baseball is instituting a dress code for credentialed members of the media. First reaction? No problem. Second reaction? It’s a sad state of affairs when they think we need this. So kids, always remember to dress appropriately. Doesn’t matter what you’re covering, you want to be dressed... Categories Business & Industry/Journalism
December 7, 2011 Ben Lowy on The Daily Show Not much to say, but it’s a nice recognition of all the work Ben Lowy has done. The book, Iraq | Perspectives, is available online now. You can see a selection of the images on Lowy’s web site, as well. Categories Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism
December 6, 2011 Training Our Audience Let’s face it, most of us know that video is an awesome (though not all-encompassing) story telling tool. There are some things it just does better than stills or words. And we’ve watched a couple waves of the-future-is-video, oh-no-no-one-is-watching-it came and go now. So, which is it? A massive time suck and drain on our time and financial resources? Or... Categories Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory/Video
December 5, 2011 Reuters Global Journalism Internships Only a week left for the next round of internship applications for Reuters Global Internships. Deadline for the Americas is December 15. From their site: ARE YOU A GOOD FIT? You are a student or recent graduate who is passionate about news and a quick learner. You have a strong academic record in journalism, economics, business, law, accounting, languages or... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism