Visual Journalism – Page 192 – Notes from aside the camera

April 15, 2011

On Campus: Justin Gillis, April 22

Saw the flier in the hall today … one of my all-time favorite alums will be speaking here at the University of Georgia Chapel on Friday, April 22, from 12:30-1:30. Justin Gillis is the Environmental Science reporter for the New York Times and he’ll be talking about Writing in a Hothouse: The Journalism of Climate Change. Gillis is an amazing...

Advice & Learning/Journalism

April 15, 2011

It’s Resume Time … Oh, Joy

We’re a few weeks out from shoving another few dozen journalism graduates off into the real world. Several of them have jobs lined up already, some are in progress and some are asking themselves, “Stationary … can I use the leftover stationary from my graduation announcements for my resume?”* Doesn’t matter what group you’re in, you’ll be updating that document...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry

April 14, 2011

Visual Journalism Conference in Bellingham, Wash.

Haven’t heard of this one before, but it looks good – the Bellingham Visual Journalism Conference is scheduled for July 15-17 at Western Washington University. If you poke around the web site you can find past projects and some recordings of previous speakers. Worth a listen.

Advice & Learning

April 14, 2011

NPPA Offering Two Scholarships to The Kalish Workshop

FYI … The National Press Photographers Association is offering two full-tuition scholarships to The Kalish Workshop in June at Ball State University in Muncie, IN, and the workshop is offering 10 stipends toward registration. The Kalish, in its twenty-first year, is four days of intense training in visual storytelling editing. Participants will learn how to establish a narrative, select media...

Advice & Learning

April 13, 2011

Next Version of Final Cut Pro Demo’d

This exploded in my Twitter stream last night … Apple did a demonstration session for the next version of Final Cut Pro at the NAB SuperMeet in Las Vegas, Nev. Lots of interesting stuff and Larry Jordan has a good summation of them on his blog today. Highlights: – Available in June in the App store for $299 – Full...

Tech Talk/Video

April 13, 2011

Can you Crowd Fund Journalism?

The answer appears to be Yes. Former student Trevor Clark pitched an idea on Kickstarter a while back, looking to raise $8,500 to tell the story of Jessie Stone who left the medical business to pursue whitewater kayaking, only to end up opening a malaria clinic in Africa and helping to bring mosquito netting to the continent. The result? It...

Business & Industry/Journalism

April 12, 2011

Great Ads for Cameras

In my head, I remember a Nikon School ad, many years ago, that showed the famous photo of the Loch Ness Monster. The text below it said something like, “Some people see a mysterious sea monster, we see an incorrect exposure and poor lens selection.” It was brilliant. Student Catherine Yi sent along the ad below which ran in some...

Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work

April 12, 2011

The Passage of the Time of Lincoln

Life.com has a fabulous gallery of images of President Abraham Lincoln that spans 20 years of time – and shows the strain and aging of his face in a stunning fashion. It does not look like the same man in the first and last images. Wow.

Good Work

April 12, 2011

Has the Flip Flopped?

When they first came out, I raved about how great a tool the Flip video cameras were. Two years ago, Cisco bought the company (then called Pure Digital) for $590 million and now they’re shutting it down. I am, well, shocked … how did this happen? The Flip was everyone’s darling, it allowed people to carry a video camera with...

Tech Talk

April 11, 2011

On “Citizen Journalism,” Copyright and Payments

Adam Hochberg over at the Poynter Institute has a piece up on the photos that flowed out of the Southwest Airlines plane that had it’s fuselage come apart. He talks with the one passenger who was compensated for her images (by Reuters, so they get a nod of approval) and with several editors about how they go about obtaining images...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal