Advice & Learning – Page 55 – Visual Journalism

March 19, 2010

Internship Opp.: Quad-City Times

FYI (and I’ll admit I really wanted this internship years ago) … The QUAD-CITY TIMES is now accepting applications for the Summer/Fall 2010 internship. This is a paid internship with mileage reimbursement. Previous internship and multimedia experience is helpful. Canon digital gear is provided. Intern must have reliable transportation. We are looking for students in photojournalism programs, others will be...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry

March 17, 2010

NPPA Multimedia Immersion Workshop

Registration is now open for the National Press Photographers Association’s Multimedia Immersion workshop, May 18-22 at my old school, Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. (And stayed tuned to this space for more interesting, entertaining and/or frightening NPPA news in the next few days.)

Advice & Learning/Multimedia

March 15, 2010

Career Day at Grady College

FYI, Tuesday is career day here at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Our very own UGA PJ grad Beth Farrar is skedded to speak.

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry

March 12, 2010

Preparing to Succeed

Wow, that sounds like a really bad airport hotel seminar, doesn’t it? But success does take preparation. You can wish to be lucky all your life, but it probably isn’t going to happen. (“But have you noticed how that luck happens to the same photographers over and over again?” Edward Steichen) Over on the Luminous Landscape site, Jack Graham talks...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Craft

March 9, 2010

Internship Opp.: Time.com

FYI … TIME.COM is seeking spring-term interns for its Photography Department. Internships are paid and not for credit. Ideal candidates can start as soon as possible and are able to commit to 3-5 days, 20-30 hours per week over the course of 4–6 months. Primary Duties: Interns will assist the Photo Department in researching and sourcing archival and current content,...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry

March 7, 2010

The Kalish Workshop

Have posted about this before, but you can never do it too many times. Deadline isn’t until May, but why wait? The Kalish Workshop is accepting applications: Jason Reed, a globe trotting Reuter’s photographer, describes the Kalish visual editing workshop as “much more than just a workshop for picture editors.” It’s for anyone that’s in the communication industry right now,” Reed, who attended the...

Advice & Learning

March 4, 2010

Losing Class

There are a lot of things that happen during my photojournalism classes – philosophy and sociology discussions, rambles about roads, ponderings on psychology. Sometimes, they even relate to photojournalism … but today, well, today we went off track. Every week we do a “VizCamp” – it’s a 10-15 minute presentation by a student on something they think everyone else should...

Advice & Learning/Thoughts & Theory

February 27, 2010

Editing and Dining

Some more images of editors working with students and some frames from a very dark dinner …

Advice & Learning/Good Work

February 26, 2010

Scenes from Elberton

We are on the road … 16 students, six editors and me, holed up in Elbert County, Ga., for the weekend. Lots of conversations in the room, lots of learning. More images to come …

Advice & Learning/Good Work

February 24, 2010

The “Tra-digital” Journalist

I didn’t coin the phrase (and not sure I’d admit to it if I did), but it’s being bantered about in a couple of places. Columbia University Prof. Sree Sreenivasan uses it in a post about a New York City gathering to talk about “The Future Journalist” – and there are some good tips in there. Particularly, I like this...

Advice & Learning/Journalism/Multimedia

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