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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

March 31, 2011

Photos of Martin Luther King, Jr, Killer Found

Spotted this in the local paper this morning (though the main story is from the Memphis Commercial Appeal which must be getting a lot of traffic today as their site won’t load) … Shelby County, Tennessee, officials found a cache of lost photos of James Earl Ray, the man who shot and killed Martin Luther King, Jr., in Memphis 43...

Good Work/Journalism

March 31, 2011

Another Thing We Hate

This sort of goes with the Alex Garcia post from the other day …

Journalism

March 30, 2011

Music to Our Ears

The Chicago Tribune’s Alex Garcia has a post up on the things we love to hear. He did miss one – “There’s food over there …”

Journalism

March 30, 2011

Reuters Photojournalist Killed in Iraq

The New York Times is reporting that Sabah al-Bazee, 30, was killed in Tikrit by suicide bombers dressed as police officers. The first commenter makes reference to something she heard on cable television: When politicians complain about mainstream journalism, they should pause for a moment and remember the dedication involved/required and displayed by reporters in mainstream journalism that isn’t evident...

Business & Industry/Journalism

March 29, 2011

A Way to Appease My Paranoia

It won’t settle it much, but Amazon.com is now offering 5 GB of cloud storage for free. And, according to LifeHacker, if you buy just one MP3 album they’ll bump it up to 20 GB. I just signed up – you log in with your Amazon.com account – and haven’t pushed this around a lot, but it’s not a bad...

Journalism

March 28, 2011

It’s Time to Modernize Video Storytelling

Mike Borland linked to this great Adam Westbrook piece on the five television video conventions that need to be abandoned. Well worth a few minutes of your time, and watch the first video … that is, perhaps, the worst bit of b-roll I’ve ever seen – a jump cut, off the tripod and obviously faked. A trifecta of disaster.

Good Work/Journalism/Tech Talk/Video

March 26, 2011

The Kalish Workshop Returns

Certainly one of, if not the, best picture editing workshops is returning – application deadline for the Kalish Workshop is Monday, May 2. Just the tag line – “visual editing for the new newsroom” – makes me want to go. Get yours request in. From their blurb: The Kalish returns for its 22nd year after being completely re-tooled to fit...

Advice & Learning/Journalism

March 26, 2011

Sell (Tell) to Your Audience

Every now and then something catchy pops up in my Twitter feed that has, on the surface, nothing to do with visual journalism. But I click anyway and, today, courtesy of Rands (not his name or his initials, I suspect) came the following: Who is your audience? How do you connect with them? As journalists now, we have to have...

Journalism

March 26, 2011

Eight Apps Journalists Should Have

Whitney Mathews over at the Poynter Institute has a listing of eight apps we should have on our smart phones. Most of these I have and agree with, though I’m still not sure Instagram is a “news” app as much as a social networking/sharing app. But maybe I just don’t get it yet … entirely possible. I would add Evernote...

Journalism/Tech Talk

Category: Journalism

Lynsey Addario on Being Captured in Libya

Photos of Martin Luther King, Jr, Killer Found

Another Thing We Hate

Music to Our Ears

Reuters Photojournalist Killed in Iraq

A Way to Appease My Paranoia

It’s Time to Modernize Video Storytelling

The Kalish Workshop Returns

Sell (Tell) to Your Audience

Eight Apps Journalists Should Have