Advice & Learning – Page 67 – Visual Journalism

July 11, 2008

Weegee in the Times

Weegee was the first real spot news photographer in a lot of people’s eyes. Born Usher Fellig, when his family came through Ellis Island he changed his name to Arthur, he prowled the streets of New York City from the mid-1930s through the late 1940s, always first on a crime scene with his Speed Graphic and cigar. The New York...

Advice & Learning/Craft/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

June 7, 2008

The Long Train Ride Home

As most of you know, we just passed the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Robert Kennedy. CNN has posted a photo montage with narration by Magnum photographer Paul Fusco commenting on what he saw out the train windows. NPR has an interview with Bill Eppridge, who made the infamous image of Kennedy lying on the floor, being held by...

Advice & Learning/Craft/Good Work/Journalism

May 19, 2008

"Did You Get the Shot?"

Every photojournalist will eventually come back to the newsroom with some tale of personal woe and pain from an assignment. And someone, somewhere, in that newsroom will ask if they got the shot. Never mind if a lens was smashed, a camera destroyed … or if the shooter had been pierced by a javelin. That guy deserves a raise.

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry

May 4, 2008

Make Your Own Documentary

PBS’ NOVA program has done something stunning – they’re releasing all of the raw video footage from their Car of the Future program. You can download it and re-edit the show. Ever wanted to make a documentary about ecology and car culture? Here’s your stock footage. No commercial usage, but that’s okay by me. For all of the multimedia students...

Advice & Learning/Multimedia/Tech Talk

April 24, 2008

Kael Alford on Campus – April 24 – ROOM CHANGE

Mark this on your calendar – photojournalist Kael Alford will be speaking at the Student Learning Center (room 248 – changed room) on Thursday, April 24 at 4:30 p.m. Her work from Iraq was featured in the Georgia Review magazine last year.

Advice & Learning/Good Work

April 18, 2008

One for the Soon-To-Be-Graduates

Lisa Williams over at the Idea Lab has a post on the “10 Things Journalists Should Know About Surviving in a High-Tech Industry.” It took me a moment with thinking of “journalism” as a “high-tech industry,” but it is. A lot of the insane things dot-commers were doing a decade ago we’re doing now … a decade late. Don’t know...

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April 15, 2008

Exhaustion

That’s what I’m still feeling, but it’s a good thing. This past weekend was our Third Annual UGA Photojournalism Weekend Workshop, this year based here in Athens. Visiting editor Mike Roy, from the Westchester (N.Y.) Journal, with help from USA Today’s Katye Martens and the Charleston (S.C.) Post and Courier’s Sarah Bates, put together a video on the weekend’s activities....

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Tech Talk

April 3, 2008

Thinking of Journalism Grad School?

Then you must read Mindy McAdams’s post on it first. Some semi-random thoughts … Communication theory is really lost on those who haven’t yet experienced a lot of communication … be sure you love journalism before committing more time and money into learning about it … most 30-year veteran copy editors knows more about journalism than anybody I’ve ever taken...

Advice & Learning

April 2, 2008

Guests

Billy Weeks, director of graphics and photography at the Chattanooga Times Free Press, joined the Multimedia Journalism class this week to talk about what they’re doing and where this is all heading. He got the “five things all graduating journalists should know” question and answered thusly: Report — Journalism is all about connecting with subjects, the media doesn’t matter. Young...

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