Advice & Learning – Page 18 – Visual Journalism

March 7, 2014

What Do You Really Do?

NPR did a really cool thing to coincide with the release of the monthly jobs report – they asked people to post a photo and answer what’s their job title and what do they really do. This is an awesome project for publications to try for the next one – go find people in your community and do short profiles...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism

March 6, 2014

Journalism Still Matters

Nice piece by SFGate’s David Wiegand on CBS News’ Scott Pelley, well worth a few minutes of your time. “I think people are being driven to brand names in journalism that they feel like they can trust,” he said. “Because never in human history has so much information been available to so many people, but unfortunately that also means that...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism

March 4, 2014

For the Educators in the Audience

Need to spend off a little leftover FY14 travel funding? Here’s how to do it – Poynter’s Teachapalooza is one of the best journalism educator conferences around. Three (or five) days of über nerdy, totally geeked out learning about how to better teach journalism at the university level. Disclosure: I’m on the faculty, but I paid my way for the...

Advice & Learning/Graphic Design/Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Video

February 22, 2014

How To See

Nice piece on NPR’s web site today looking at how Russian Valeriy Klamm and other photographers view their home country. Next weekend, I’ll take my Documentary Photography class into the North Georgia mountains for our Ninth Annual UGA Photojournalism Weekend Workshop. Nine professionals will coach and cajole them, helping them learn their craft and tell the stories of one county....

Advice & Learning/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

February 20, 2014

Alumn Goes Viral

Sometimes, opening email is a pure joy … Jon-Michael Sullivan, a 2010 graduate of our program at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and now on staff at the Augusta Chronicle, sent me a note about a video he posted in September telling the story of a 70 year old body builder. Normally, I’d embed...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Video

February 19, 2014

What CNN Wants Next

Great two part interview with CNN’s Victor Hernandez over at NetNewsCheck.com by Michael Depp that looks at how the future is being seen. The second part is focused on what CNN is looking for in new hires: We’re increasingly looking at things like an individual’s digital portfolio and what they’re doing with social media and how active they are on...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

February 18, 2014

Momenta in New Orleans

There are only a handful os slots left for the Momenta Workshop in New Orleans. Another thing on my proverbial bucket list …

Advice & Learning/Photojournalism

February 14, 2014

The Cost to Photojournalism Seen Through Competitions

Interesting comments from Gary Knight, one of the judges in the World Press Photo, over at the British Journal of Photography. These awards show the consequences of a lack of resources in the industry.

Advice & Learning/Photojournalism

February 12, 2014

Interview with William Albert Allard

There is a level of documentary photography that I shall forever aspire to … because I fear I’ll never get there. At that level are folks like William Albert Allard, who was interviewed by Barbara Davidson for the Los Angeles Times’ reFramed blog. I approach a story the same way today as I did with my first assignment on the...