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April 11, 2011

Start Your Own Newspaper – For Free

Unhappy with your local publication? Think you can do better? Believe there are stories in your community that need to be told that aren’t seeing ink on paper? Tony Lee, a junior at St. Bonaventure University, outlines how he uses free tools to create his own news publication over at USA Today. His creation, The Intrepid, is a little rough...

Journalism/Tech Talk

April 11, 2011

Reminder: Scott Pelley of CBS’ 60 Minutes in Athens

FYI … Scott Pelley of CBS’s 60 Minutes, winner of a truckload of journalism prizes including two Peabody Awards, will be delivering this year’s Peabody-Smithgall Lecture. It’s on Monday, April 11, at 4 p.m. in the Miller Learning Center’s Room 101. Please join us for a great talk and Q&A with one of the top TV journalists working today. Bring...

Advice & Learning/Journalism

April 6, 2011

Watch This Video, Get the Picture

NPPA President Sean Elliot posted a link to this video looking at the life of John Morris, easily the most influential photo editor ever. Anyone who was anyone in the 20th century worked with or for him. If you haven’t read his book, Get the Picture, you must.

Business & Industry/Good Work/Journalism/Video

April 6, 2011

Grads in the Wild

Been a great few minutes here in office 230 … was on the phone with Tracey Trumbull, director of photography at the Chattanooga Times Free Press, who was raving about several of my former students. He hired one as a staffer at the end of his internship, extended another’s internship because she was doing so well and the current intern...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism

April 5, 2011

Into the Unknown – NPR Photo Coverage from Japan and Haiti

NPR has posted a photo gallery of images from David Gilkey comparing the devastation from earthquakes in Haiti and Japan. Some of the parallels are eerie as each country begins the recovery process. There’s an audio interview with Gilkey, as well, where he talks about what it was like shooting in these situations, especially describing the sounds of Haiti and...

Good Work/Journalism

April 4, 2011

Journalist, Brand Thyself

So says Roy Peter Clark over at the Poynter Institute in a column posted today. And, he’s right. (I almost typed, “write” .. honest.) To quote: Do you believe in what you do? Does your work reflect a noble mission and purpose? Then it is not enough, oh author, to create it. You must do everything in your power to...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism

April 4, 2011

Reporting on the Radio with an iPhone – Only

Over on Mediashift, Neal Augenstein has a write-up of his year working with just an iPhone. He’s a reporter for WTOP in Washington, D.C., and has been recording all of his audio on it, as well as editing it, for broadcast. He’s listed the software and workflows for how he handles photos, video and live broadcasts, too – good info...

Audio/Journalism/Tech Talk

April 4, 2011

On Being a Social Media Manager

Good interview over at LostRemote.com with Evone Benedict who became KING-TV’s social media manager late last year. She talks about what she does and the response from the community and her colleagues.

Journalism/Multimedia

April 1, 2011

Addario on Morning Edition

Lynsey Adario, one of the New York Times journalists who was captured in Libya, did an interview with NPR’s Morning Edition. It aired on Friday and the audio is available online. For instance, there was the night that a soldier riding in the passenger seat leaned back to stroke Addario’s hair and face — repeatedly murmuring a phrase in Arabic....

At Work/Business & Industry/Journalism

March 31, 2011

Lynsey Addario on Being Captured in Libya

After being one of four New York Times journalists seized in Libya, Lynsey Addario has posted an entry on the Times’ Lens blog about why it’s important for women to cover war – and why gender shouldn’t, and doesn’t, matter. In talking about the reaction to their story being published, she says: Some comments said: “How dare a woman go...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work/Journalism

Category: Journalism

Start Your Own Newspaper – For Free

Reminder: Scott Pelley of CBS’ 60 Minutes in Athens

Watch This Video, Get the Picture

Grads in the Wild

Into the Unknown – NPR Photo Coverage from Japan and Haiti

Journalist, Brand Thyself

Reporting on the Radio with an iPhone – Only

On Being a Social Media Manager

Addario on Morning Edition

Lynsey Addario on Being Captured in Libya