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July 23, 2013

How to Market Yourself

Second in a series by Deb Pang Davis on the National Press Photographers Association’s site on branding and marketing yourself is now online. Love that she’s starting with the core: While strong design helps to convey credibility, trust and professionalism, spending a boat-load of money on a logo, a swanky portfolio case or a custom book won’t get you clients...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Graphic Design/Photojournalism

July 22, 2013

No Answers in Detroit Photojournalist Arrest

Paul Anger, the editor and publisher of the Detroit Free Press writers about the arrest of staff photojournalist Mandi Wright. From theca column: We’d like answers, too. We also know that Detroit police have difficult jobs — that’s understatement — fueled by tension and adrenalin. But they shouldn’t be worrying about rousting citizens who are within their rights to record...

At Work/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

July 19, 2013

Maybe a Filter Would Have Helped …?

But probably not … watch as Thomas Bjorn chips a shot right into an ESPN camera, taking out the front lens element.

At Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 19, 2013

Covering the Zimmerman Trial

The Orlando Sentinel's Gary Greene shares some of his experiences covering the George Zimmerman trial. The one surprising thing for me: remote cameras in the courtroom. I suspect this is more common than I'm aware of, but thinking back to my courtroom coverage, that option would have been fantastic for better telling those stories.

At Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 18, 2013

So, Is This a Problem?

When Southern Community Newspapers, Inc., decided to let their photo staffs go, we all knew the photos would have to come from somewhere. Reporters may be able to cover some things, but if you’re the Gwinnett Daily Post and you routinely cover the Gwinnett Braves, the AAA farm team for the Atlanta Braves, I assumed you’d hire a stringer, right?...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 18, 2013

Will Photojournalism Survive Instagram?

That’s the question Mother Jones’ Jeremy Lybarger tries to answer in an interview with Fred Ritchin. I’m afraid he never really answers it but Richtin, one of the great photography theorists of our time, doesn’t seem to think so. An excerpt: There is enormous need for professionals who know how to tell stories with narrative punch and nuance, who can...

Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 18, 2013

Football Hall of Fame Removes Award Winning Image

I’ve been stewing on this for a few days now … the Pro Football Hall of Fame has decided to remove a photo of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez from a display of winners in the 2010 annual Hall of Fame photo contest. (Hernandez, for those of you living a hermetic life this summer, has been charged with...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 16, 2013

Shooting Sports

Over on the National Press Photographers Association’s web site, Jim Colton gives us six tips on shooting sports and then adds tips from more than a dozen working pros. Great resource here.

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 15, 2013

Who Decides Who the Real Journalists Are?

The irony of linking to this is a little sickening … but Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin has penned a letter to the, ahem, Chicago Sun-Times (that bastion of journalistic excellence) about letting the government decide who is a journalist. Ack. Just … ack.

Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism

July 15, 2013

What’s in Your Trunk?

My students laugh at all of the things I tell them I used to carry around in the back of my car. They laugh enough to mock me, openly, on a regular basis. And then they go get an internship or job and send me a note saying they just bought one of those ridiculous things because they needed it...

Photojournalism/Tech Talk

Category: Photojournalism

How to Market Yourself

No Answers in Detroit Photojournalist Arrest

Maybe a Filter Would Have Helped …?

Covering the Zimmerman Trial

So, Is This a Problem?

Will Photojournalism Survive Instagram?

Football Hall of Fame Removes Award Winning Image

Shooting Sports

Who Decides Who the Real Journalists Are?

What’s in Your Trunk?