Visual Journalism – Page 147 – Notes from aside the camera

December 5, 2011

Portfolio Website Advice

Over at the NPPA’s Visual Student blog, Brian McDermott has a great post up (the first of three) on building your online presence. Great advice, make sure you’re tuning in to this series – a great winter break project. I need to go look into the Google Keyword Tool now …

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

December 5, 2011

AP-Google Journalism & Technology Scholarship

The deadline to apply for a $20,000 scholarship for the 2012-2013 academic year is Jan. 27, 2012. From the release: The AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship program will provide $20,000 scholarships for the 2012-13 academic year to six promising undergraduate or graduate students pursuing or planning to pursue degrees at the intersection of journalism, computer science and new media. The...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism/Tech Talk

December 5, 2011

130 Years of the Los Angeles Times

Over on the NPPA listserv, Mark Hetzberg pointed us to this great collection of images from the Los Angeles Times’ archive. I keep going back to that third image … wonder if I can ask my boss for a hot air balloon on a truck …

Photojournalism

December 2, 2011

Amputation is Not the Answer

Here’s my big thoughtful piece for the week – you can’t cut you’re way out of a hole, that only makes the hole deeper or wider. You have to build your way out of it. As readership declined and advertising disappeared, so many news organizations started slicing away to make the bottom line palatable for the investors. It didn’t work....

Business & Industry/Journalism/Thoughts & Theory

December 2, 2011

NPPA Election Results

Congratulations to Todd Maisel and Mark Dolan for their election to the NPPA Board of Directors, as well as to all the new (and returning) regional chairs.

Business & Industry

December 2, 2011

Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar

It’s here! It’s here! It’s time for the 2012 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar – two days of learning, growing and networking. Several of my kids are there already, will be joining them on Saturday and doing some time at the NPPA table – swing on by and say hello.

Advice & Learning

December 1, 2011

MediaStorm Workshops for 2012

On my list of things I’d like to do is the Methodology Workshop at MediaStorm. They have announced the 2012 schedule for those, as well as their Advanced Multimedia Workshops. Wonder how flush my boss feels this week … hmmm …

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Multimedia

November 30, 2011

A New Book! A New Flash!

I am significantly more excited about the announcement buried in this Joe McNally blog post where he talks about a new Nikon SB-910 flash – he has another book coming out. Sketching Light: An Illustrated Tour of the Possibilities of Flash is due to ship soon, it would seem. Going to go ahead and preorder it – why not, we...

Craft/Tech Talk

November 30, 2011

The Dawn of the Me Reporter

In the wake of the news that CNN was laying off dozens of editors and photojournalists, Stephen Colbert announced the launch of the Me Reporters. It’s really not funny that in this time when we most need journalists on the street we’re losing them. There is a place for first person reporting, for original source video – but it will...

Business & Industry

November 29, 2011

Behind the Icons

Nice piece by Steve Silberman at NeuroTribes about Susan Kare who designed the original Macintosh icons back in the early 1980s. She has a book coming out that looks at all of the icons she has designed over the years … I am oddly fascinated by this. Love this line: Instead of thinking of each image as a tiny illustration...

Graphic Design