Advice & Learning – Page 39 – Visual Journalism

August 9, 2011

Are YOU Backed Up?

If you’re on staff somewhere, you have an automatic YOU back-up. If you don’t show up for work*, there’s (hopefully) someone else who will take care of what you were supposed to do. But what if you’re a freelancer? Skip Cohen writes over at GoingPro about having a backup for yourself. We photojournalists carry back-up cameras, lenses, cards, hard drives,...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Thoughts & Theory

August 5, 2011

Staying Motivated

Times are hard out there – but you know that already, don’t you? Over on the Poynter Institute’s site the other day was a chat session with Manny Garcia, executive editor and general manager of El Nuevo Herald about how you stay fired up, how you draw inspiration. Worth going through the transcript. (And, yes, I’m aware I’m Poynter-heavy of...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry

August 4, 2011

Mountain Workshop is Filling Fast

A recent note from Jim Bye at Western Kentucky University says the 2011 edition of the Mountain Workshops is already more than 50% full. If you’re thinking about it, think faster.

Advice & Learning

August 3, 2011

Internship Opp in New Jersey

I’m a little concerned about the “stipend” mentioned in this, but the opportunity to work for and/or with Ed Kashi is pretty tempting. Talking Eyes Media is looking for two interns to work three days a week out of their offices in Montclair, N.J. One position is a production intern, the other a research intern. (Thanks to Stanley Leary for...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry

August 3, 2011

A Photographic Bucket List

Scott Bourne over at PhotoFocus has an interesting post up about creating a photographic bucket list. A “bucket list” is a list if the things you want to do before you, well, kick the bucket, so to speak. I have to admit, I’ve done so many cool things over the years that coming up with some would be hard. But...

Advice & Learning/Journalism/Photojournalism

August 2, 2011

Making Your Job Application Stand Out

Just stumbled over this while checking a link in the last post … Charles Apple will be doing a live chat over at the Poynter Institute at 3 p.m. (Eastern) on making job applications more visual. Apple, if you don’t know him, is the former design director for the Virginian Pilot, one of the best designed papers in the country...

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

August 2, 2011

Where Do You Learn?

I spent a few days down at the marvelous Poynter Institute last week and my brain is still processing information. I don’t know what it is about that place, but it is a magical mystery learning environment. Richard Koci Hernandez over at Multumedia Shooter posted a listing of the top 10 multimedia workshops, based on his experience and knowledge of...

Advice & Learning/Multimedia/Thoughts & Theory

July 31, 2011

Remembering Learning

Over on the New York Times‘ Lens blog, James Estrin wrote a great tribute to street photographer and teacher Jerome Liebling. I had never heard of Liebling, but after reading this, I really wish I could have taken a class with him. Jerry Liebling’s photography classes — at least in the late ’70s, when I studied under him — consisted...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

July 29, 2011

Magnum Tips for Young Photographers

IdeasTap.com has a post up with advice from a half dozen Magnum photographers for young shooters who want to go professional. Some of it is contradictory (study photography, don’t study photography), but some of it is well put like this comment from Alex Webb: Photograph because you love doing it, because you absolutely have to do it, because the chief...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

July 28, 2011

MSCNE Presentation on Video Journalism

I spent all day Wednesday teaching a Multimedia Immersion workshop as part of the Management Seminar for College News Editors. A pair of two-hour long sessions on shooting video in the morning, a mock-disaster exercise in the afternoon where the 60+ editors from across the country divided into eight teams to cover a simulated crash and then an evening of...

Advice & Learning/Tech Talk/Video

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