Category: Journalism

October 15, 2010

UGA Motorsports Workshop Wrap-up

It has been nearly two weeks since my world went very, very quiet. My hearing has recovered and the memories are still pleasant, seems like a good time to talk a bit about the UGA Motorsports Photojournalism Workshop. This is an insane idea, to be honest: Take one class full of college students to one of the premier motorsports events...

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

October 4, 2010

Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar – Dec. 3 & 4

It’s coming up again, get it on your calendar and plan on being there. It’s that time of year again to begin planning for the winter migration to Atlanta on December 3rd & 4th, for the 38th Annual Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar. This years Friday offerings include workshops by Paula Lerner “The Art & Commerce of Multimedia”, SI’s Bob Rosato “Inside...

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Journalism

September 27, 2010

Digital Literacy and a Resource Page

Over the weekend, a new tab popped up along that nav bar–Resources. I’ll put links in there to teaching materials from my classes. The first thing in there is a public link to the Digital Literacy videos I created over the summer. These 13 video modules are being used in several of our courses to help students learn new(ish) technologies...

Categories Advice & Learning/Journalism/Tech Talk

September 25, 2010

On Teaching and the Value of Education

John Harrington, a gentleman I admire for numerous reasons, has opened up the question – again – as to whether university programs are preparing “photographers” for the real world. He brings up several important issues and his post is worth ruminating on. His main complaint stems from ads looking for photography faculty members and requiring at least a masters’ degree...

Categories Advice & Learning/Journalism/Thoughts & Theory

September 16, 2010

Optimism in Photojournalism

As promised, here’s the optimism for today … on the New York Times‘ Lens blog, James Estrin writes about Luzeo Images, a photojournalism collective founded by several UGA Photojournalism alumni, and how they are combatting the “photojournalism is dead” mantra we’ve been hearing since … um … 1930? No, wait, then we had the Farm Securities Administration work … 1936? No, that’s...

Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Journalism

September 16, 2010

Civil Rights Era Photographer Revealed as FBI Informant

The Memphis Commercial Appeal has a very detailed story up that looks at the work Ernest Withers did, both as a photographer during the Civil Rights movement and as an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigations.

Categories Ethics & Legal/Journalism

September 16, 2010

International Relations, Photojournalism and Pelé

Sitting in my office a few minutes ago, a newspaper came sliding under the partially-closed door. My name, in the classic red ink of Professor Conrad Fink, and his initials, above an obit piece on John Varley. It’s an interesting read about a photograph I’ve seen before but didn’t really comprehend that well. Varley, a British news photographer, made the image...

Categories Craft/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism

September 16, 2010

Journalism as a Dinner Party

Get your attention? It’s not my line, I stole it from Khoi Vinh who tossed it out during a presentation in Zurich last week (video below). He was talking about how journalism needs to be tied to user experience much more tightly now because of all the platforms it can be delivered upon. A few quotes … Even though great...

Categories Business & Industry/Graphic Design/Journalism

September 10, 2010

Hmmm … What is the New York Times Doing Next?

Sounds like the Times has something up their sleeve with their News.me domain. I’m curious … the blog post mentions a Flipboard-like service, which if it’s done legally and helps generate revenue, I’m all for it. (Haven’t looked at Flipboard for the iPad? Here’s my $0.05 review – it’s a content scraper. Stay away from it.)

Categories Business & Industry/Journalism/Tech Talk

September 10, 2010

Free Knight Multimedia Training for Mid-career Journalists

Yep, free – as in get yourself there yourself and they’ll cover the training. There are, of course, some caveats: The multimedia workshop, Web 2.0 and Interactive Census training application process requires a letter of interest, resume, a training plan and a letter of support from your supervisor. The supervisor needs to confirm that the organization will spend a minimum...

Categories Advice & Learning/Journalism