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. Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft
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... Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Tech Talk/Video
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... Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism
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... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism
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.... Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism/Photojournalism
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... Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism/Photojournalism
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... Categories Advice & Learning/Craft/Tech Talk
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? Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism
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... Categories Advice & Learning
July 1, 2011 The Mountain Workshops Accepting Applications FYI … We are now accepting applications for the 2011 Mountain Workshops which will be held in Somerset, Ky Oct. 18-22. To apply go to http://www.mountainworkshops.org/ and the APPLY TO THE WORKSHOPS menu item. There are a limited number of spots available. • Photojournalism or Picture Editing Workshop – $625 prior to Sept. 15, $675 after Sept. 15 • Multimedia... Categories Advice & Learning