Advice & Learning – Page 43 – Visual Journalism

April 15, 2011

It’s Resume Time … Oh, Joy

We’re a few weeks out from shoving another few dozen journalism graduates off into the real world. Several of them have jobs lined up already, some are in progress and some are asking themselves, “Stationary … can I use the leftover stationary from my graduation announcements for my resume?”* Doesn’t matter what group you’re in, you’ll be updating that document...

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April 14, 2011

Visual Journalism Conference in Bellingham, Wash.

Haven’t heard of this one before, but it looks good – the Bellingham Visual Journalism Conference is scheduled for July 15-17 at Western Washington University. If you poke around the web site you can find past projects and some recordings of previous speakers. Worth a listen.

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April 14, 2011

NPPA Offering Two Scholarships to The Kalish Workshop

FYI … The National Press Photographers Association is offering two full-tuition scholarships to The Kalish Workshop in June at Ball State University in Muncie, IN, and the workshop is offering 10 stipends toward registration. The Kalish, in its twenty-first year, is four days of intense training in visual storytelling editing. Participants will learn how to establish a narrative, select media...

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April 11, 2011

Reminder: Scott Pelley of CBS’ 60 Minutes in Athens

FYI … Scott Pelley of CBS’s 60 Minutes, winner of a truckload of journalism prizes including two Peabody Awards, will be delivering this year’s Peabody-Smithgall Lecture. It’s on Monday, April 11, at 4 p.m. in the Miller Learning Center’s Room 101. Please join us for a great talk and Q&A with one of the top TV journalists working today. Bring...

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April 6, 2011

Grads in the Wild

Been a great few minutes here in office 230 … was on the phone with Tracey Trumbull, director of photography at the Chattanooga Times Free Press, who was raving about several of my former students. He hired one as a staffer at the end of his internship, extended another’s internship because she was doing so well and the current intern...

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April 4, 2011

Journalist, Brand Thyself

So says Roy Peter Clark over at the Poynter Institute in a column posted today. And, he’s right. (I almost typed, “write” .. honest.) To quote: Do you believe in what you do? Does your work reflect a noble mission and purpose? Then it is not enough, oh author, to create it. You must do everything in your power to...

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March 31, 2011

Lynsey Addario on Being Captured in Libya

After being one of four New York Times journalists seized in Libya, Lynsey Addario has posted an entry on the Times’ Lens blog about why it’s important for women to cover war – and why gender shouldn’t, and doesn’t, matter. In talking about the reaction to their story being published, she says: Some comments said: “How dare a woman go...

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March 26, 2011

The Kalish Workshop Returns

Certainly one of, if not the, best picture editing workshops is returning – application deadline for the Kalish Workshop is Monday, May 2. Just the tag line – “visual editing for the new newsroom” – makes me want to go. Get yours request in. From their blurb: The Kalish returns for its 22nd year after being completely re-tooled to fit...

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March 21, 2011

Blogging and Personal Branding

Here on campus on Wednesday, March 30, the International Association of Business Communicators will be bringing in Toby Bloomberg of Bloomberg Marketing and the Diva Marketing Blog to talk. According to the flier from the hall, she has been “acknowledged by Forbes as one of the 20 Best Marketing and Social Media Blogs by Women” and is the author of...

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March 21, 2011

EUREKA! – A Talk on Why That Happens

According to this week’s Columns, the University of Georgia’s in-house weekly paper, Mark Beeman will talk about “the spark that results in sudden human isight” during the 2011 E. Paul Torrance Lecture on Thursday, March 24, at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Beeman is the head of the cognitive neuroscience program at Northwestern University. I really hope they record...

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Category: Advice & Learning

It’s Resume Time … Oh, Joy

Visual Journalism Conference in Bellingham, Wash.

NPPA Offering Two Scholarships to The Kalish Workshop

Reminder: Scott Pelley of CBS’ 60 Minutes in Athens

Grads in the Wild

Journalist, Brand Thyself

Lynsey Addario on Being Captured in Libya

The Kalish Workshop Returns

Blogging and Personal Branding

EUREKA! – A Talk on Why That Happens