Advice & Learning – Page 24 – Visual Journalism

May 5, 2013

Building Connections

The International Center of Photography has announced their Infinity Awards recognizing outstanding achievements in photography. Eight awards were given and MediaStorm produced films on each of the winners. David Guttenfelder’s is a great look into how his work out of North Korea has come about. If you mouse over the right side, you can see the play list and watch...

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May 4, 2013

John Tlumacki Talks About the Marathon Bombing

From a few days ago, but worth a few minutes of your time …

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May 3, 2013

We’re Done

It’s a little past 5 p.m. and I’ve just closed up the Photo Cave. Spring semester 2013 is essentially done. Well, except for the grading. And conducting exit interviews early next week. And then I’ll start teaching a Maymester class in a little over 10 days … still, the first-semester students have pixel-peeped and clicked their way through final projects...

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May 3, 2013

Look3 Festival

One of these summers, I’m going to make the run up to Charlottesville, Virginia, for the Look3 photo festival I’ve never heard anything but praise for this … and I always have a conflict, it seems. I need to put it on my 2014 calendar … (Thanks to Justin Ide for the reminder.)

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April 24, 2013

Simple vs. Small

Over at The New York Times’ Lens blog, Whitney Richardson has a story up about Paul Kwilecki and his photographs of Decatur County, Georgia. Well worth a read and a walk through the gallery. But it raises a couple of question that, probably, only I can answer … why did Mr. Kwilecki reach out to Duke University to help with...

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April 16, 2013

Catching Cover Letters

Andrew Lamberson walks through his process of writing a cover letter for a job at The New York Times Magazine – and it’s a very different approach. Read the piece to see what happened. (Thanks to Sean Elliot for the link.)

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April 8, 2013

LUCEO Student Project Award

Info is now up on the 2013 LUCEO Student Project Award competition. The winner gets $1,000 and a year’s worth of mentoring from the group. And that last part is probably worth more than the first part …

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April 6, 2013

UGA VJ Alums Win All the Things

Word filtered out yesterday that two alums from my program here at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication sort of, well, won all of the things in the Georgia Press Association’s January clip contest. Sara Caldwell, a 2011 grad, and Jon-Michael Sullivan, a 2010 grad, are both on staff at the Augusta Chronicle and about...

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April 4, 2013

NPPF Scholarship Deadline Approaching

Less than two weeks now until the application dealing for the National Press Photographers Foundation scholarships. You could score $2,000 – why not try?

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April 1, 2013

Don’t Play Dumb

I think I want every one of my students to read Peter Iglinski’s Poynter piece on avoiding science writing mistakes. Especially number seven – nothing drives me crazier than when a student closes their $2,000 laptop and puts down their smartphone and says, “Computers and me just don’t get along …”

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