Category: Advice & Learning

The Eddie Adams Workshop, one of the legendary ones, is now accepting applications. Barnstorm, as it’s also called, has traditionally been one of the best workshops for college students and young professionals. It’s a great atmosphere with a great collection of editors and the alumni have gone on to do great things. Well worth giving up a few trips to...

I hate to admit it, but I’m sure at some point in my teaching career I’ve wondered if some of my students were blind. Turns out, aside from being cold and crass, it could happen to me someday. (The having a student who is blind, not the becoming blind myself.) Have to say I wish they’d included some of her...

I’ve never done one of these courses, nor have I talked to anyone who has, but TOL “is a non-profit organization established to strengthen the professionalism, independence and impact of the news media in the post-communist countries of Europe and the former Soviet Union. We do this through a combination of journalism and media training programs, and the publication of Transitions...

The 2010 edition has been scheduled for October 19-23 in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. More information is available on their web site, along with galleries from last year’s event. This is one of the top workshops in the country from everything I’ve ever heard about it. Someday I’d like to go … but probably as a student.