Advice & Learning – Page 25 – Visual Journalism

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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March 29, 2013

Dave Labelle at Grady College

[View the story “Dave Labelle at Grady College” on Storify] Dave Labelle at Grady College On Thursday, March 28, the National Press Photographers Association’s Student Chapter at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication brought Dave LaBelle to campus. The room was packed, here’s some of what was said. Storified by Mark E. Johnson· Fri, Mar...

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March 25, 2013

Six Questions You Should Ask

Okay, so this is coming off of a PR website, but it’s still an excellent string of questions you should ask on your next job interview. We all spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to answer questions, hoping that will convince the person on the other side of the table to hire us. What many don’t...

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March 20, 2013

Wow … Well, At Least They’re Honest About It

How would you like to get your work critiqued by professionals in an online chat session? Sounds pretty cool, just hashtag them on Instagram or Twitter and yours might get selected for a review by your friends at The Wall Street Journal. Just, you know, pay no attention to the disclaimer that is longer than the announcement and that tells...

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March 11, 2013

To Press Pass or Not to Press Pass

That, it would seem, is the new question. Elliot Spagat at the Orange County Register has a story about how the San Diego police chief is issuing, or not issuing, press passes to some members of the “media.” There are several questions that need to be answered here, the first of which is should journalists even be issued media credentials...

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March 6, 2013

The Business of Visual Journalism

Pencil this in your calendar … on Thursday, March 21, we will be hosting our second Business of Visual Journalism symposium here at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. We will have three talks in the afternoon, starting at 2, and all are open to the public. First up will be Billy Howard, who just...

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March 5, 2013

Grady College’s Bluejeans Workshop – March 23

If you’re anywhere near Athens on Saturday, March 23, get yourself over to Grady College for the annual Bluejeans Workshop. It runs from 8:30 to 4:30 and it’s cheap – just $35 for the whole day, and that includes lunch. (Price goes up after March 18.) It opens with a panel discussion that has been phenomenally good in the past,...

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March 5, 2013

Kalish Deadline on April 1

The application deadline for The Kalish picture editing workshop is on April 1. Still on my list of things I must do …

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February 27, 2013

Luck Is the Residue of Hard Work

The Boston Herald has a piece up looking at the work of Stanley Forman. Forman won two Pulitzer Prizes in the 1970s and in the video he talks about one of them. “You can be good,” Stanley said, “but if you’re not lucky, it ain’t gonna happen. And luck, as Leo Durocher once said, is the residue of hard work.”

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February 12, 2013

Interview with John Morris

John Morris is a legend, there’s just no other way to frame a discussion about him. A picture editor for Life and The New York Times, he was everywhere, it seemed, when the great images were being made. Think about this: he edited Robert Capa’s D-Day film, producing the iconic image of a soldier crawling up out of the surf,...

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