Advice & Learning – Page 40 – Visual Journalism

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...

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July 27, 2011

Screwed Up? Own Up

It’s a simple concept, really – take responsibility. I won’t say more, just go read Skip Cohen’s piece over at GoingPro.

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July 23, 2011

Digital Literacy

I have been hanging out down at the Poynter Institute for their Teachapalooza conference. Just finished up a talk about the Digital Literacy videos I created for our students last year … and I suspect a lot of folks are now trying to remember where they are … so, you can click here or hit the Resources tab up at...

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July 17, 2011

Canon Ambassadors: Advice for Young Photographers

On the European Canon Professional Services web site there are five short interviews with photojournalists offering advice to young shooters. Worth a few minutes of your time. From the interview with Gary Knight, one of the founders of the VII agency: This has always been a confusing industry to enter. It’s always been a difficult business to survive in. It’s...

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July 11, 2011

The Life Balancing Act

Richard Wong over at Black Star Rising has a reminder to all of us that we need to work to maintain the balance between our professional life and our family life. I can count on one or two hands the number of really great photojournalists that I know personally who have managed the balancing act. I think back to my...

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July 10, 2011

Witness to Tragedy and Recovery

Todd Maisel, the National Press Photography Association’s Region Two Director, is heading up a program at Pace University in September that’s looking back at how photographers covered the September 11 attacks … and dealt with it afterwards. If you’re in the New York City area on September 8 and you care about photojournalism, you need to be there for this....

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July 6, 2011

For Summer Interns: Your Personal Matrix

We are going to step far afield of our usual sources this morning … Jodi Glickman at the, ahem Harvard Business Review writes about evaluating your summer internship as you hit the midway point. It’s an excellent read, something that I’m tucking away to talk with my students about before the next batch is heading off into internship-land. (Which, by...

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July 6, 2011

Scared or Democratized – What Kind of Photographer Are You?

Over at Nuwomb, Scott Webb wrote about the battle between “scared” photographers – those who think everything new is a gimmick – and “democratized” photographers – who think everything new is an opportunity. Where do you fall? Me? I fall on the side of storytelling, because that’s how I use this medium. I’m not an artist and, while I appreciate...

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July 5, 2011

National Geographic iPad App

Not new, but still pretty cool … National Geographic has an app that talks about how their 50 greatest photos were made. It’s $4.99 and reportedly also has ads in it (would rather one or the other), but if someone gives you a gift card, why not?

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July 3, 2011

Why a Journalism Degree Doesn’t Matter in Journalism

Back in 2003, after asking me to stick around and do a masters degree at Syracuse University, the college lost a program and, with it, the funding for my assistantship. Which lead to a very weird series of phone calls where my advisor/mentor/friend told me to call the University of Florida and ask about their assistantship. I did, had a...

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