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December 5, 2011

AP-Google Journalism & Technology Scholarship

The deadline to apply for a $20,000 scholarship for the 2012-2013 academic year is Jan. 27, 2012. From the release: The AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship program will provide $20,000 scholarships for the 2012-13 academic year to six promising undergraduate or graduate students pursuing or planning to pursue degrees at the intersection of journalism, computer science and new media. The...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism/Tech Talk

December 2, 2011

Amputation is Not the Answer

Here’s my big thoughtful piece for the week – you can’t cut you’re way out of a hole, that only makes the hole deeper or wider. You have to build your way out of it. As readership declined and advertising disappeared, so many news organizations started slicing away to make the bottom line palatable for the investors. It didn’t work....

Business & Industry/Journalism/Thoughts & Theory

November 29, 2011

Rating Manipulation

Harry Farid, a professor of computer science and digital forensics at Dartmouth College, is developing a software program to rank the level of Photoshop manipulation on images according to a Steve Lohr story in the New York Times. The emphasis is on portraits and images of models now, but I’d love to know if this is looking at content or...

Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

November 24, 2011

NYC Police Told to Not Harass Media

It’s a sad moment when it comes to this, but New York Police Department Commissioner Raymond Kelly has ordered a “Finest” message to be read at 10 consecutive roll calls, according to the National Press Photographers Association. The Finest message highlights various guidelines that instruct police on how to deal with the media, including that “Members of the service will...

Journalism/Photojournalism

November 23, 2011

The Photographers, Now Online

The 1996 National Geographic film The Photographers is now available for online streaming. This is a great look at a bunch of their shooters and what they go through to get an image. Well worth spending an hour of time watching it. (Thanks to Greg Mironchuk for the link.)

At Work/Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism

November 22, 2011

Your Future in Journalism

Not much to say here … “If you don’t like to write, you won’t be happy in journalism.” (Thanks to a slew of people on Facebook and the NPPA Listserv for sending that along.)

Journalism

November 18, 2011

What Photographers Should Care About

Over at GoingPro, Scott Bourne writes about the things we, as photographers, should and should not care about. This … this is a topic I could go on about for days. Here are a list of things I could not care less about: Cameras Lenses Flashes Software Computers Social media Megapixels Filters Plugins Photoshop actions Workflow However, there are things...

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November 15, 2011

NPPA Grant Winners Announced

Congratulations to Victor J. Blue, Gabriela Busilova, Mary F. Calvert, Matt Eich, and Mark Ovaska who have all won a $3,000 grant to continue work on stories from the National Press Photographers Association.

Business & Industry/Competitions/Journalism/Photojournalism

November 12, 2011

Weekend Reading Recommendations

Okay, this will take you longer than the weekend. Andrew Mendelson sent along a link via Facebook to the 50 books journalism students need to read. Looks like there will be a few trips to the library for me in the near future ..

Journalism

November 7, 2011

Choices, Too Many Local Choices

Two big talks, both scheduled for the University of Georgia campus this Friday, November 11. At 2:30, in Mahler Auditorium at the Georgia Center, Swedish photographer Mattias Klum will be talking about The Big Picture: Communicating Conservation in a Complex World. At 3:00, ESPN Executive Vice President John Walsh will be speaking at the Chapel on Sports and Journalism in...

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