July 17, 2007 NFL web video restrictions John McClain at the Houston Chronicle takes on the National Football League’s new 45 second rule for video and audio on the web. (Thanks to Al Tomkins for this, from the Morning Meeting email.) Categories Journalism
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... Categories 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... Categories 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... Categories 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... Categories 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. Categories 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. Categories 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,... Categories 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. Categories 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... Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Journalism/Thoughts & Theory