Journalism – Page 46 – Visual Journalism

July 6, 2010

Energy, Online

I spent this morning posting 16 video pieces my students did this past spring. For my Documentary Photography course, we focused on a theme for their final video projects, a theme based on just one word: energy. From there, I let them have at it. The story topics are all over the place, from recycling to dairy farms, bike groups...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Journalism/Video

July 5, 2010

Social Media Down on the Farm

USA Today has an interesting piece online about farmers starting to use social media technology to talk about what they do and network with other farmers. We’ve all been sent the YoutTibe videos of “atrocious” farm conditions but that’s only one side of the story. Now, agricultural workers are stepping up and stepping in with their side of the story....

Journalism

June 24, 2010

My New Hero

The NBC station in Chicago has a story up about Keith Davis who decided to create a newspaper and web site to cover his home town of Annawan, Illinois. Why? According to the story: “We don’t have a paper in town, and the ones around us don’t really cover a lot of local news,” the seventh-grader said. “I had to...

Journalism

June 23, 2010

Journalists and the Law

Not in a cout-of-law sense, but an on-the-street sort of law, journalists are seeing increased awareness of the presence by law enforcement personnel – and not necessarily in a good way. A recent article on Gizmodo highlighted several instances of questionable arrests and detainments. Al Tompkins at the Poynter Institute went a few steps further in talking with a couple...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Journalism

June 17, 2010

Inside the Mexican Suitcase

A neat look at what may – or may not – be in The Mexican Suitcase, which was brought to light in 2007 containing lost negatives from Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour. (Thanks to Greg Mironchuk for the link.)

Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism

June 14, 2010

AP Video Journalist Dives in the Gulf Oil Slick

Journalism is about commitment, about knowing what your readers need to see (and hear) and bringing them to places they can’t go. Associated Press video journalist Rich Matthews did just that. Read about his account and the Editor & Publisher story.

Craft/Journalism

June 14, 2010

Cameras are the New Guns?

I’m not sure what to think about this yet … but there seems to be a movement to use wiretapping laws against photojournalists.

Ethics & Legal/Journalism

May 25, 2010

(Psst … David LaBelle Now Has a Blog … Pass It On)

Don’t know how I missed this, but it’s true … let’s encourage him as much as we can …

Craft/Good Work/Journalism

May 25, 2010

Going Mobile in Philly

Damon Kiesow has a great article up on the Poynter Institute web site about Jim MacMillan, a veteran Daily News shooter who has more Twitter followers than Katie Couric does. Lots of great advice in there, including this: Ideas are a dime a dozen. Everybody has ideas. Go do something. Well said.

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism

May 20, 2010

Make or Take?

If you haven’t spent some time looking at the videos from the various TED conferences, you really should. Alum Jake Daniels pointed me to this one of Jonathan Klein from Getty Images and it brought up a debate I’ve been having in my head for the last few years about making or taking photographs. I argued for years that the...

Advice & Learning/Craft/Good Work/Journalism

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