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June 19, 2007

Why Newspapers are in Trouble

First, go read this. Now, think about it. Does it hurt yet? Because I keep looking at the date to see if it’s April 1 or something … is there any actual news here? If I call up the paper and say, oh, I don’t know … “I’m creating a new automobile company, based in Bogart, and if we get...

Journalism/Thoughts & Theory

June 18, 2007

To Text or Not to Text

Okay, this is way off topic – but there’s some good journalism that can be done. Over on MousePrint.org (a great blog that looks at the ways consumers get ripped off by things in the “mouse print”), they’re talking about the text messaging charges television viewers can get hit with when playing along with some game shows. It brings up...

Journalism

June 8, 2007

My Dream Job … Has Been Taken

There is one book that changed my life more than almost anything else. It convinced me to be a journalist, it reenforced my wandering habits. It taught me that good stories don’t come from good writers, they come from great subjects. William Least Heat Moon’s “Blue Highways” was loaned to me when I was a very impressionably 16-year-old and I...

Good Work/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

May 15, 2007

Useful Web Sites for Journalists**

Former student Chuck Thomson sent this along – a web page with links to all kinds of sources of online information. Everything from government records to vehicle identification number records, all linked from one handy place. Bookmark the page, it’ll be useful at some point. ** And this post marks the 100th entry since the UGA Photojournalism Blog started in...

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

April 23, 2007

A Prayer for Father Tim

Jim Gerhz and Maura Lerner at the Minneapolis Star Tribune teamed up for a story looking at a military chaplain who was injured in Iraq. Note the use of audio – subtle and effective. Look at the variety of images – no two ever look similar. Thanks to Lindy Dugger for the link.

Good Work/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism

April 20, 2007

Correction needed

In a comment appended to a story out of Syracuse University about a member of the university community having contracted tuberculosis … Please correct the following error in your article the test is a TB test not a TV test as stated in your paper.

Advice & Learning/Journalism

April 17, 2007

UGA Student Wins Southern Short Course Shootout

Last weekend, seven photojournalism students from UGA’s Grady College went to the Southern Short Couse for News Photography in Chattanooga, Tenn. Their trip was funded by the Harry Hodgson Journalism Student Support Fund. Part of the three-day workshop was the Nikon Shootout – participants are loaned a Nikon point-and-shoot camera and given one hour to illustrate a theme. This year,...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

April 17, 2007

Alan Kim talks about the Virginia Tech Photos Seen Around the World

Roanoke Times staff photographer Alan Kim talks about how he made the photos from Monday’s massacre at Virginia Tech. A part-time photographer, Kim was at home when an editor called him about a reported shooting on campus.

Journalism/Photojournalism

April 12, 2007

Roads Not Taken

Ctein over on The Online Photographer has a cautionary tale about missed opportunities. Every photojournalist I’ve ever met has a story about the photo they didn’t go after. (I don’t like to talk about mine.) (Any of them.) (Though I’ve gotten better about them over the years.) If you’re reading this, you’re probably young and impressionable and desirous of a...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Journalism/Thoughts & Theory

April 6, 2007

James Nachtwey, TED Prize winner

James Nachtwey won the TED Prize for 2007 and his acceptance speech was recorded. At more than 20 minutes in length, it will take some time to get through – but it is well worth the effort as he talks about the stories he has told and why he believes in their importance. (Note that clicking that link will start...

Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

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