Thoughts & Theory – Page 33 – Visual Journalism

October 30, 2011

How to Be A Critic

David Saxe over at Black Star Rising has posted four simple rules for critiquing other’s work. It’s a good list. Because I can, here’s my companion list for being critiqued: Be Aware of Time: Depending on the environment you are in, you may have get a long critique or a short one. If you’re doing evening portfolio reviews at a...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

October 26, 2011

Terrorism, Tornados and Telling Visual Stories

A reminder that David Handschuh from the New York Daily News and Jeff Roberts of the Birmingham News will be talking about covering major events in their communities at 10:30 this morning in the Grady College’s Drewry Room as part of the McGill Symposium on Journalistic Courage.

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Thoughts & Theory

October 21, 2011

Twitter Humor for Journalists

There are lots of hashtags worth following on Twitter, but one of my favorites is the #partylikeajournalist group. Because, well … because it’s just great geek humor for us.

Advice & Learning/Thoughts & Theory

October 10, 2011

Paying It Forward

Patrick Fallon has a post up on the NPPA’s Visual Student blog asking recent and soon-to-be photojournalism grads what advice they would give freshman or those just starting out. Some good advice in there, particularly about not being negative and building relationships with those a few semesters or years ahead of you.

Advice & Learning/Thoughts & Theory

October 6, 2011

Do You Know Your Story?

Great post by Bill Wadman about researching your subjects – and what they’re expertise is in. Being the photographer in the room will only get you so far. Being someone who is invested in telling the story of the people in the room will get you much further. This has me thinking that I may ask my students to write...

Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

October 5, 2011

Is It About Value?

No, probably not … I love that web site.

Thoughts & Theory

October 3, 2011

Even More Failure

David Cohn over at the MediaShift Idea Lab wrote about the Seven Barriers to Failure when it comes to journalism and innovation. I cannot stress how important failure is in our current environment. The old ways of committing acts of journalism just don’t work anymore – we have to try new things. And that means some of them, a lot...

Craft/Thoughts & Theory

September 14, 2011

To Increase and Diffuse

If you’ve been here a while, you know how big a fan I am of Joe McNally. I’ve seen him speak a dozen times or more, stood in a room with him while he led a small lighting workshop, hung strobes in a diner in Syracuse as part of that and have studied every book and image he’s published. The...

Advice & Learning/Craft/Thoughts & Theory

September 13, 2011

New Skills for the Modern Storyteller

Stanley Leary put up a nice compilation of the skills now being asked for in job descriptions for photographers. To me, there is nothing surprising in the job listings – it’s an evolution that’s been going on for the last decade or so. But the key thing he points out is that, regardless of the skill set, being able to...