Category: Photojournalism

June 6, 2012

Covering Court from the Outside

Over at The New York Times’ Lens blog, Kim Severson gives us a glimpse into what covering the John Edwards trial in North Carolina was like. And it wasn’t pretty – no cameras were allowed during the six-week long trial, so the media had to set up camp outside the courthouse and wait. I have done the so-called “perp walk”...

Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

June 6, 2012

More FSA Images Found at the New York Public Library

Over at The New York Times’ Lens blog, James Estrin has the story behind a trove of Farm Securities Administration images Roy Stryker sent to the New York Public Library. Why? It turns out Stryker was as paranoid as I am: “I think he had to hedge his bets,” said Beverly Brannan, a curator at the Library of Congress and...

Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism

June 5, 2012

Webinar Today: What Photo Buyers Want

Photoshelter has a webinar coming up this afternoon (4 p.m. Eastern) with National Geographic’s Senior Photo Editor Elizabeth Krist on What Photo Buyers Want. It’s free, but you should register as soon as you can.

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

June 5, 2012

New Alexia Foundation Site is Live

Wow … the new web site for the Alexia Foundation is up and it looks awesome. Well worth spending some time there.

Categories Competitions/Journalism/Photojournalism

June 5, 2012

Sputter Sputter … There’s a Fill Flash Tool in Photoshop Now?

I’m scratching my head at this one, as I haven’t seen anything about this (and a web search didn’t bring me any more info), but over on the National Press Photographers Associations’ Ethics Matter blog, John Long, Peter Southwick and Steven Raymer have all chimed in about the ethical issues regarding using a digital fill flash tool. There have been...

Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

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

May 31, 2012

NPPA Best of Photojournalism Awards Announced

The National Press Photographers Association announced this year’s Best of Photojournalism awards. From the release:   Ross Taylor of The Virginian-Pilot was named today as the National Press Photographers Association’s Best Of Photojournalism 2012 Photojournalist of the Year (Larger Markets), and David Weatherwax of The Herald, in Jasper, IN, was picked as the Photojournalist of the Year (Smaller Markets). Freelancer...

Categories Competitions/Good Work/Photojournalism

May 28, 2012

Images That Haunt Us

It was 2006 when I first saw Todd Heisler’s Final Salute package, the first multimedia package I watched and never paused to wonder how it had been produced. It floored me, from the images through to the audio – it still gives me chills to think about it and, six years later, when I show it to my students, they...

Categories Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

May 28, 2012

AP to Take on Getty?

Just this one quote has me very concerned about a new agency the Associated Press is apparently considering launching to take on Getty Images:   This new for-profit agency — which, with one exception, is currently made up entirely of ex-Getty photogs — would be a way for the AP to send photographers on assignment without having to consider journalistic...

Categories Photojournalism

May 24, 2012

Finding the Fakes

Craig Silverman over at the Poynter Institute has a post up looking at a new company, Fourandsix, that is developing some tools to detect altered images. I’m not sure I understand this yet, but it feels promising.

Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk