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January 28, 2011

Covering Dakar

Reuters photojournalist Eric Gaillard takes us behind the scenes and gives a brief glimpse of what it is like to cover the Dakar Rally. On my automotive lists of things to do, at the top would be to compete on the Dakar. I know I’ll never do that, so maybe covering it one year … even that would be an...

At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work/Journalism

January 28, 2011

Being Ready

We issued cameras to the intro students this week, so they’re off wandering around Athens, pointing their cameras at completely random things and cursing at the buttons. They sort of hate me now, I think. The one thing I tell every student, every semester, is to make sure you have your camera with you at all times. You just don’t...

Craft/Good Work/Journalism

January 26, 2011

Mantra vs. Mission Statement

Guy Kawaski was the original Macintosh evangelist. I know this because for many years I subscribed to his Mac EvangeList listserv. (Which was, I think, the first one I ever subscribed to in, um … 1993?) In this video from a Stanford University presentation, he talks about wasting time and money on creating a 50-word mission statement. Instead, create a...

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January 5, 2011

Manifestations of Moments in Time

The end of the year brings a blitz of “the year in pictures” packages. I did them, too, when I was shooting and editing. They are a nice way to look back, see what you did and, more importantly, see what your community did. But my old friend Scott Bryant took a different turn with his year-end package. He’s the...

Craft/Good Work/Journalism

January 1, 2011

NPPA Humanitarian Award Given to John David Mercer

John David Mercer is the photojournalist who spotted a fire at a roadside hotel, stopped, told the manager and then banged on the doors of guests to get them outside. Highly deserved.

Journalism

January 1, 2011

For 2011, Tell Stories That Matter

Citizen journalism. This isn’t the first time that phrase has slithered out of my fingers and, unfortunately, I’m sure it won’t be the last. But it’s a phrase I want to start with because there are a lot of people decrying the future of my profession and using that as the excuse. Those who have read me, listened to me...

Business & Industry/Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism

December 22, 2010

Looking Back, Again

Librado Romero at the New York Times has been producing a wonderful series of stories looking back at the great photojournalists who have worked for the Gray Lady. The latest focuses on Ernie Sisto who spent five decades at the Times. According to Romero, he was a great storyteller and a pretty good photographer. “I was doing a handstand on...

Craft/Journalism

December 21, 2010

Intercollegiate Online News Conference in Athens

We’re a few weeks away, time for more information … the ICONN Annual Conference will be here at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication on January 13 and 14. This conference, open to ICONN members and non-members, is designed to give both journalism students and journalism educators a forum to talk about online journalism–what is it now, where...

Advice & Learning/Journalism

December 10, 2010

Getting the Money Shot, British Style

Associated Press photographer Matt Dunham made the frame from the rioting in London this week, the one of Prince Charles and Camilla in their Rolls Royce as it is being pummeled by protesters. As we say, f/8 and be there. He certainly was.

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