Visual Journalism

April 20, 2011

Second Photojournalist Dies in Libya

It has been confirmed that Chris Hondros from Getty Images has also died in Libya today. In 2007, MSNBC.com published an interview with him that looks at the work he was doing then in Iraq and Africa. An awful day.

Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism

April 20, 2011

Photojournalists Killed, Wounded in Libya

A straight pass through to the National Press Photographers Association, who is reporting that Tim Hetherington has been killed in Libya and several other photojournalists have been wounded.

Categories Business & Industry/Journalism

April 20, 2011

Journalism Education and Technology Needs

An interesting piece in The Maneater, a student publication at the University of Missouri, about the requirement for all of their journalism students to have an Apple iPod Touch for use in their course work. It’s of particular note to me as we at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia are starting to...

Categories Advice & Learning/Journalism/Tech Talk

April 20, 2011

The Pulitzer He Didn’t Want

Donald Winslow (who is the editor of the National Press Photographers Association’s News Photographer magazine) wrote a piece for the New York Times’ Lens blog on his old friend, Eddie Adams, in which he explains why Adams never wanted to talk about his most famous image. It’s a fascinating look into Adams and the anger and frustration he felt for...

Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Journalism

April 20, 2011

No Words

Just, well … Go Look. That’s what every photojournalist is dreaming about.

Categories Good Work

April 19, 2011

Win a Contest, Get a Mentor

Seems like every week, someone sends me a contest they want shared with my students. They all talk about how great it would be if they win, the exposure! The fame! They never talk about how every submission becomes the property of the company sponsoring the contest, though. This one is different, though – UPIU is running a story idea...

Categories Advice & Learning/Competitions

April 19, 2011

Times-Picayune Photojournalist Issued Court Summons

According to the story on the New Orleans Times-Picayune web site, Ted Jackson was attempting to photograph a traffic crash on an elevated highway when the incident happened. The comments on the story, seven pages worth of them, are very telling in how some people perceive our role in these situations.

Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal

April 18, 2011

In the Flickr Fight, it’s Nikon vs. … iPhone?

Yep, according to the statistics, the iPhone is rapidly approaching the number one camera option on Flickr. Why? Because it’s always with people, that’s why. (Heck, Chase Jarvis even wrote a book about it being the best camera Sort of.) (Thanks to CNN’s Victor Hernandez for the link.)

Categories Tech Talk

April 18, 2011

And the Pulitzers Go To …

The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography goes to … Awarded to Barbara Davidson of the Los Angeles Times for her intimate story of innocent victims trapped in the city’s crossfire of deadly gang violence. The Breaking News prize goes to … Awarded to Carol Guzy, Nikki Kahn and Ricky Carioti of The Washington Post for their up-close portrait of grief...

Categories Business & Industry/Competitions/Journalism

April 16, 2011

Advice for Women Journalists … Circa 1918

Suzan St. Maur has written about a book given to her grandmother, then handed down to her mother, called The Woman’s Book: Contains Everything a Woman Needs to Know. There’s an entire section dedicated to being a female journalist … fun reading. (Thanks to Brandi Larsen for the tweeted link.)

Categories Business & Industry