September 10, 2007 iDMAa Conference in Philly Dr. Scott Schamp writes about it better than I can … so go read his 10 reasons why you should go. I may. Categories Business & Industry/Graphic Design/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory
September 10, 2007 Great Relief – Rugby Photo Boycott Lifted I spotted this just recently and was about to blog it … but it all seems to be settled now. Not sure what some of those terms mean, though … Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism
August 22, 2007 Smoky Mountain Stories Friend and supporter Woody Marshall at the Macon Telegraph sent along a link to Smoky Mountain Stories – a collection of photo stories done last spring by University of North Carolina students. Worth spending some time on. Categories Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism
August 2, 2007 AP Photojournalist Tossed from Cuba The Miami Herald has a story about Cuban photographer Cristobal Herrera who photographed Fidel Castro fainting and falling on two separate occasions. Seems the government has essentially exiled him from his home. Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
July 24, 2007 When it all goes "Pear Shaped" Covering huge events can be a logistical nightmare – access, equipment, technical problems. And then it can all go up in flames. Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
July 24, 2007 Henry Wessel video The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has a show on Henry Wessel and KQED has produced a short film of him talking about his work. (“Short” may be relative – it’s just under eight minutes in length.) (You’ll need the RealAudio player, worth it because the quality here is really nice.) Some of his work resonates with me, but... Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism
July 20, 2007 WaPo goes LoCo Confused? Join most of the newspaper editors around the world. This week, Rob Curley (digital maven and massive bright spot to the news industry) launched LoudounExtra.com – the Washington Post’s (WaPo) new hyperlocal web site covering Loudoun County (LoCo) in northern Virginia. Curley’s the guy behind the Naples News site down in Florida where he went nuts building out massive... Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Graphic Design/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
June 25, 2007 "That's going to leave a mark …" Good journalism is good journalism. And when it involves killer flying fish, well, you just have to watch … (okay, not killer, but they could certainly maim you) Thanks to Poynter’s Al Tompkins for the link. Categories Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
June 15, 2007 Grady's (Visual) Anatomy For the last week I’ve been elbow deep in high school kids. Everywhere I look, there’s another one. Which is okay, because this was the Georgia Scholastic Press Associations’ annual journalism camp – this year called “Grady’s Anatomy.” I’ve helped the GSPA with some workshops in the past, but I did the full tour this year, teaching ten students as... Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism
June 8, 2007 My Dream Job … Has Been Taken There is one book that changed my life more than almost anything else. It convinced me to be a journalist, it reenforced my wandering habits. It taught me that good stories don’t come from good writers, they come from great subjects. William Least Heat Moon’s “Blue Highways” was loaned to me when I was a very impressionably 16-year-old and I... Categories Good Work/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk