Journalism – Page 33 – Visual Journalism

August 2, 2011

Making Your Job Application Stand Out

Just stumbled over this while checking a link in the last post … Charles Apple will be doing a live chat over at the Poynter Institute at 3 p.m. (Eastern) on making job applications more visual. Apple, if you don’t know him, is the former design director for the Virginian Pilot, one of the best designed papers in the country...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Graphic Design/Journalism

July 28, 2011

Philadelphia Reporter and Photographer Attacked on Live Television

It’s a bizarre story that gets weirder on the evening news … reporter Chris O’Connell and photographer Dave Edwards were attacked while doing a live shot for Fox 29 outside of a house in Philadelphia. Both are okay.

Business & Industry/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism/Video

July 26, 2011

Captioning, From a Non-Journalistic Point of View

Michael Johnston (who I’m thinking I need to meet at some point, because he’s pretty smart) has an interesting post over at The Online Photographer about captions. He’s not looking at them in a journalistic sense, but it does get to the importance of them. For those heading to the PJ lab this fall, pay attention – I love a...

Business & Industry/Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism

July 20, 2011

Awful Use of Stock Art

Charles Apple (rightly) calls out WUSA TV in Washington, D.C., for an unbelievably poor choice of stock art attached to a tragic news story. What were they thinking?

Ethics & Legal/Graphic Design/Journalism

July 20, 2011

Life in a Day Trailer

Need to see if this running around here next week … on July 24, 2010, Ridley Scott and Kevin MacDonald asked people to shoot video all around the world and submit it. They received 80,000 submissions, 4,500 hours of footage. And they made a movie out of it with National Geographic that’s supposed to open on July 24, 2011. (Thanks...

Good Work/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Video

July 19, 2011

Yet Another Post on Captioning, Keywording and Tagging

My students hate how hard I hammer them on captions. Aside from the need for, you know, grammar and punctuation, I also make them write in – heaven forbid! – AP style. You’d think I was making them writing in cuneiform on clay tablets or something. But it gets worse – I make them get names. And contact info. I’m...

Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 19, 2011

Finding Focus

Melissa Lyttle tweeted this comment: Dear young photographer, be more like this guy. And … she’s right. Read that, ponder it, then go do it.

Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism

July 10, 2011

Witness to Tragedy and Recovery

Todd Maisel, the National Press Photography Association’s Region Two Director, is heading up a program at Pace University in September that’s looking back at how photographers covered the September 11 attacks … and dealt with it afterwards. If you’re in the New York City area on September 8 and you care about photojournalism, you need to be there for this....

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism/Photojournalism

July 6, 2011

For Summer Interns: Your Personal Matrix

We are going to step far afield of our usual sources this morning … Jodi Glickman at the, ahem Harvard Business Review writes about evaluating your summer internship as you hit the midway point. It’s an excellent read, something that I’m tucking away to talk with my students about before the next batch is heading off into internship-land. (Which, by...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism/Photojournalism

June 28, 2011

Twitter for Newsrooms

Not overly visual, but Twitter has released a set of resources for journalists called Twitter for Newsrooms. May be worth poking through on a hot summer evening.

Journalism/Tech Talk

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