Advice & Learning – Page 42 – Visual Journalism

June 1, 2011

Eddie Adams Workshop Application Deadline Coming Up

If you haven’t done it yet, you still have until Friday to get your application in for the 2011 Eddie Adams Workshop, one of the best in the country.

Advice & Learning

May 31, 2011

Look3 Photo Festival – June 9-11

Coming up quick … June 9-11 in Charlottesville, Va., is the Look3 photo conference/festival/exhibition/workshop. LOOK3 is 3 days of exhibitions, presentations, interviews, workshops, and outdoor projections in Charlottesville, Virginia. Our guest curators, Kathy Ryan and Scott Thode, are designing a line-up of artists and programs around the theme of HOME. Join us in June for this weekend of images, ideas,...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry

May 15, 2011

Sports Shooter Academy VIII To Be Held Sept. 21-25

FYI … from Robert Hanashiro: Four days of sports photography, working with an award-winning faculty, getting a critical view of your work, networking with people from around the country and having access to top professional-level camera gear are just a few of the things that make the Sports Shooter Academy THE coolest sports photography event of the year. SSA VIII...

Advice & Learning/Photojournalism

May 13, 2011

Multimedia Training at UC Berkley

If I had the time (and wasn’t already overbooked), I definitely want to go to this … The Knight Digital Media Center (KDMC) at UC Berkeley just wanted to let everyone know that the application period is still open for our July Multimedia Workshop. In case you’re not familiar with our program, we offer free week-long training to working journalists....

Advice & Learning

April 27, 2011

50 Things to Know

Khoi Vinh (who designed the Basic Maths theme used on this site) pointed to this great collection of The 50 Things Every Graphic Design Student Should Know by Jamie Wieck at Airside. All the way down at 44 (the number every Syracuse University student wants to wear), was this: Go figure …

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry

April 27, 2011

Reminder: Registration Open for the Bellingham Visual Journalism Conference

FYI … We’re excited to announce that pre-registration for the 2011 Bellingham Visual Journalism Conference is now open! We have an excellent faculty lined up this year including Pulitzer Prize-winner Deanne Fitzmaurice and 2010 Scripps Howard Foundation first place winner Lisa Krantz who will speak on topics ranging from the business of multimedia to how to come up with and...

Advice & Learning/Multimedia/Photojournalism

April 21, 2011

The Mountain Workshops – Oct. 18-22

The Mountain Workshops are considered to be one of the best out there, well worth getting on your radar screen. From their press release: Final plans for The Mountain Workshops 2011 are coming together! It will be held in Somerset, Kentucky Oct. 18 – 22. We will begin accepting applications on-line on July 1. The prices for the workshops are:...

Advice & Learning/Craft/Journalism

April 20, 2011

Journalism Education and Technology Needs

An interesting piece in The Maneater, a student publication at the University of Missouri, about the requirement for all of their journalism students to have an Apple iPod Touch for use in their course work. It’s of particular note to me as we at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia are starting to...

Advice & Learning/Journalism/Tech Talk

April 19, 2011

Win a Contest, Get a Mentor

Seems like every week, someone sends me a contest they want shared with my students. They all talk about how great it would be if they win, the exposure! The fame! They never talk about how every submission becomes the property of the company sponsoring the contest, though. This one is different, though – UPIU is running a story idea...

Advice & Learning/Competitions

April 15, 2011

On Campus: Justin Gillis, April 22

Saw the flier in the hall today … one of my all-time favorite alums will be speaking here at the University of Georgia Chapel on Friday, April 22, from 12:30-1:30. Justin Gillis is the Environmental Science reporter for the New York Times and he’ll be talking about Writing in a Hothouse: The Journalism of Climate Change. Gillis is an amazing...

Advice & Learning/Journalism

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