September 27, 2012 Quick Tips for Video Aubrey Aden-Bule posted a short video report from the Online News Association’s video segments. If you’re starting out, there are five good tips in there to help. Categories Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Video
September 13, 2012 Pricing Multimedia It’s one of the most persistent questions my students ask me – how much should I charge for this freelance gig? I have some answers, but the multimedia realm is a whole new world to me. Over at Photo District News, Brad Horn answers some questions about how he prices this stuff and it’s a great read. This one graf... Categories Business & Industry/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism
August 13, 2012 NPPA Best of Photojournalism TV Files Available The National Press Photographers Association has announced the the winning entries in the Best of Photojournalism television division are now downloadable from their web site. It’s only open to members and you can burn the files to a DVD for watching on your own set. Guess what I’m doing on the high-speed connection at work today … Categories Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Video
August 8, 2012 On Interviewing Greg Scoblete has a great piece up on Photo District News about interviewing for video and audio, well worth a read. Will be sharing this with all my students this fall. (Thanks to Curt Chandler for the link.) Categories Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Video
July 19, 2012 2012 Mountain Workshops Taking Applications The 2012 edition of the Mountain Workshops in Kentucky is now taking applications – get your package together, this is one of the Big Ones. The workshop will run October 16-20 in Henderson, Kentucky, this year. One of these years, I want to go to this one … Categories Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism
July 19, 2012 Time and Sports Illustrated Turn to Instagram Two stalwarts of high-quality photojournalism are … turning to Instagram? Yep. Sports Illustrated will have a Leading Off page in the next issue of photos shot by regular contributor Brad Mangin with his smartphone and processed through the social photo network app. It’s a collection of images he made during this baseball season. Time, on the other hand, is working... Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
June 14, 2012 MediaStorm Goes to a Paid Model A few days ago, MediaStorm rolled out their new fee structure – about $2 to see the stories they produce. Which, you know, is ridiculously cheap … But, as you could expect, people don’t like paying to see stories. Unless it’s $10 for a movie. Or $8 for Netflix. Or $2.50 for The New York Times. So, of course, people... Categories Business & Industry/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism
June 12, 2012 Video at the Wall Street Journal Andrew Beaujon has a short post up over at the Poynter Institute that links to a Wall Street Journal video on the Facebook IPO. The video, which runs about 10 minutes long, was produced by an independent filmmaker and is, apparently, indicative of the expansion the Wall Street Journal is expecting in this area. Go ahead and watch the video,... Categories Business & Industry/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Video
June 1, 2012 Video In Demand at the Wall Street Journal Over at the Nieman Lab web site, Adrienne LaFrance has the story about how the Wall Street Journal needs to produce more videos to satisfy advertiser demands. Think about that – the Wall Street Journal, which 20 years ago didn’t even run photographs, has more demand for video advertising space than it can handle and is launching new products... Categories Multimedia
May 31, 2012 Syracuse University Student Killed While Reporting in Syria The Daily Orange is reporting that Syracuse University graduate student Bassel Al Shahade was killed while filming government attacks on citizens in Homs, Syria. Al Shahade was a graduate student in the university’s College of Visual and Performing Arts. Categories At Work/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Video