Advice & Learning – Page 76 – Visual Journalism

April 13, 2007

Stuck in Oldthink Muck

Mark Glaser writes in Mediashift about a recent visit to Ball State University and he rambles on about the issues educators are facing. How much of the old curriculum is worth saving? How much can be repurposed? How much new stuff do we need? The educators amongst us have been wrestling with this for a while, some are close to...

Advice & Learning/Thoughts & Theory

April 12, 2007

Roads Not Taken

Ctein over on The Online Photographer has a cautionary tale about missed opportunities. Every photojournalist I’ve ever met has a story about the photo they didn’t go after. (I don’t like to talk about mine.) (Any of them.) (Though I’ve gotten better about them over the years.) If you’re reading this, you’re probably young and impressionable and desirous of a...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Journalism/Thoughts & Theory

April 10, 2007

David Burnett (are you sick of him yet? I am not)

David Burnett‘s show is up at the Georgia Center and he’s made his public talk … and we’re all better for it. Really, we are. After picking him up in Atlanta, we stopped to shoot a 81-year-old World War II vet who jumped into Normandy in 1944. And in 1994. And again in 2004 … the guy is a true...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism

April 9, 2007

David Burnett of Contact Press Images in Athens – Monday, April 9

The must attend event of the semester: On Monday, April 9, at 7 p.m., Grady College in conjunction with the Georgia Center and the History Department, is bringing David Burnett to campus. His show, “Measures in Time,” is on display at the Georgia Center and running through the end of the month. Burnett, a founder of Contact Press Images, has...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism

April 5, 2007

Leicas, free film and a pixelated future

It’s an odd day here in Athens. This morning, I took four boxes of frozen Fujicolor film out of the freezer and brought them to work. In a few short hours, I’ll be handing out the seven year old film to some of my students who are experimenting with their parents 35mm cameras. I’ve moved this film from freezer to...

Advice & Learning/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

April 4, 2007

USA Today has been assimilated …

In this era of rights-grabbing work-for-hire contracts, USA Today was a refreshing break. A fair wage for one-time usage, a payment schedule for re-use on the web or in print. It was a good deal – the paper got high quality work from respected journalists and those journalist received decent pay for their work. That’s changed according to an article...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry

April 3, 2007

Top 10 Web Design Tips

This has been out there for a while, so it’s not really new, but Jakob Nielsen has updated his “Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design.” Good reading if you’re about to build (or rebuild) your web pages. He’s done this for a few years – see the 2005 version, the 2003 version, the 2002 version, the 1999 version and the...

Advice & Learning/Graphic Design

April 2, 2007

Camera wonks or photographers?

Some of you already know of my affection for “elitist” cameras (like my recently departed Leica, the last of my usable film cameras … *sigh*). But I hope I have always stressed the importance of the tool only in relationship to the final product – that the image is what matters most. There’s a comic strip out there and today’s...

Advice & Learning/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

April 1, 2007

Skills journalism students NEED

I kind of feel bad about stealing so many things from Mindy McAdams’ blog, but she’s so friendly I hope she doesn’t mind too much … So here’s another post of hers that journalism students Must Read – it’s a look at “The Changing Skill Set for Journalists.”

Advice & Learning/Journalism/Multimedia

March 31, 2007

Online Journalism Workshops – Blogging, Photos for the Web and Audio

Three workshops, aimed at graduating students, to get you up to speed on “online journalism.” These are FREE! The official blurb: Grady College presents a series of workshops to sharpen your online skills. Three free sessions will be taught by Mark Johnson, Grady lecturer in journalism. Space is limited; register for any or all sessions. Register with Sophie Barnes in...

Advice & Learning/Multimedia

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