Visual Journalism – Page 192 – Notes from aside the camera

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...

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.)

Business & Industry

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.

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