Category: Advice & Learning

December 23, 2011

Yearend Reading

I’m on the road, catching up with family and friends for a while, so it will be quiet the next few days around here. But, to keep you busy, Photoshelter has posted list of what they think are the best photo blog posts of the year – that’ll keep you busy for a while. (Thanks to NPPA President Sean Elliot...

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Good Work/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism

December 22, 2011

Winter Break Project for Students

Over at the NPPA Visual Student blog, Brian McDermott has posted the last of a three part series on Designing a Better Portfolio Website. Part one looked at understanding your audience and building a better structure. Part two looked at finding inspiration and developing a basic understanding of the coding that underlies all sites. Part three looks at the design...

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Graphic Design/Photojournalism

December 19, 2011

Advanced Storytelling Workshop Registration Opens

FYI, registration for the NPPA’s Advanced Storytelling Workshop has opened. It’s running April 15-20 in San Marcos, Texas.

Categories Advice & Learning/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism

December 14, 2011

Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism

An oddly worded title, but this is a growing event held in Hannover, Germany in mid-June. Worth looking into.

Categories Advice & Learning/Photojournalism

December 7, 2011

Storifying the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar

My brother-in-arms Robert Johnson built a Storify page from tweets about the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, worth scrolling through when you have a moment.

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

December 5, 2011

Reuters Global Journalism Internships

Only a week left for the next round of internship applications for Reuters Global Internships. Deadline for the Americas is December 15. From their site: ARE YOU A GOOD FIT? You are a student or recent graduate who is passionate about news and a quick learner. You have a strong academic record in journalism, economics, business, law, accounting, languages or...

Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism

December 5, 2011

Portfolio Website Advice

Over at the NPPA’s Visual Student blog, Brian McDermott has a great post up (the first of three) on building your online presence. Great advice, make sure you’re tuning in to this series – a great winter break project. I need to go look into the Google Keyword Tool now …

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Graphic Design/Journalism/Photojournalism

December 5, 2011

AP-Google Journalism & Technology Scholarship

The deadline to apply for a $20,000 scholarship for the 2012-2013 academic year is Jan. 27, 2012. From the release: The AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship program will provide $20,000 scholarships for the 2012-13 academic year to six promising undergraduate or graduate students pursuing or planning to pursue degrees at the intersection of journalism, computer science and new media. The...

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism/Tech Talk

December 2, 2011

Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar

It’s here! It’s here! It’s time for the 2012 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar – two days of learning, growing and networking. Several of my kids are there already, will be joining them on Saturday and doing some time at the NPPA table – swing on by and say hello.

Categories Advice & Learning

December 1, 2011

MediaStorm Workshops for 2012

On my list of things I’d like to do is the Methodology Workshop at MediaStorm. They have announced the 2012 schedule for those, as well as their Advanced Multimedia Workshops. Wonder how flush my boss feels this week … hmmm …

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Multimedia