Category: Advice & Learning

March 2, 2008

More Conferences and Workshops

Since I’ve just posted about the Southern Short Course in News Photography, I should mention two other events you ought to consider attending … The Women in Photojournalism conference will be held in New Orleans on August 8-10. (Link not working as of Sunday morning, not sure why.) From their email flyer: The Women in Photojournalism Conference has been traveling...

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March 1, 2008

Southern Short Course in News Photography – March 26-30

Any students interested in going to the Southern Short Course in News Photography need to see me ASAP – we have some funding to help you go. Meaning, it won’t cost you much to learn and schmooze in Charlotte for a few days. Really, why wouldn’t you go?

Categories Advice & Learning/Tech Talk

February 28, 2008

REPOST: "Breaking News" – Lecture TODAY

This morning, I filled the Drewry Room with an exhibition from the Associated Press that looks at their history. Tied into their book “Breaking News: How the Associated Press has Covered War, Peace and Everything Else,” the show will be up until Friday, February 29. Additionally, at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 28, Michael Giarrusso, the AP’s Regional News Director...

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry

February 27, 2008

iPhones for Everyone!

Well, if you’re enrolling at Abilene Christian University. Not here in Athens. So, is an iPhone a teaching device? I’m going to think about how I could use one. Well, use one in class … I can think of lots of ways I could use one for myself. – Vodcasting classes (though I may move around too much to make...

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February 13, 2008

Is This New Media Stuff Important?

Got an email from one of our big supporters, Mike Haskey at the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer. As to why this is important……..you may tell your students that we recently filled a staff photographer opening with a local TV videographer who also has a PJ degree. I was only able to fill the position because of his “hybrid” skills. We had plenty...

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February 5, 2008

I Play With … Stuff

For the Multimedia Journalism class, my students will be producing multimedia autobiographies today. They’ve been playing with audio and web design, today they get SoundSlides. Because I still haven’t produced enough audio slide shows (I mean, who has?), I decided to do another so I had examples and samples. I scanned images at home last night (after digging through several...

Categories Advice & Learning/Audio/Good Work/Multimedia/Tech Talk

January 31, 2008

South Carolina News Photographers Association Conference – Feb. 9-10

The SCNPA is having their judging and conference next week in Anderson, S.C. That’s about a 90 minute drive, a great opportunity to meet some folks who can get you jobs.  Why wouldn’t you take a Saturday and/or Sunday drive?

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Competitions

January 29, 2008

Speaker: Dennis Dimick, Thursday, Jan. 31

Dennis Dimick, executive editor at National Geographic, will be in the photo lab from 11 a.m. to 12 noon on Thursday, talking about environmental coverage. All are welcome.  This precedes his Charter lecture in the afternoon.

Categories Advice & Learning/Craft/Photojournalism

January 16, 2008

"7 Bad Habits"

One for everyone – “7 Bad Habits of Digital Photographers.“

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January 14, 2008

Guest Speaker Jim Stovall – Thursday, Jan. 24, 11 a.m.

Professor Jim Stovall will describe the Tennessee Journalist, the student news web site he created at the University of Tennessee. Prof. Stovall was the brainchild behind Dateline Alabama and runs JProf.com, as well. He’ll be here to talk with us about student news web sites and is a jack-of-all-codes, so to speak, and can help us think about what we’re...

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