Visual Journalism – Page 195 – Notes from aside the camera

March 29, 2011

A Way to Appease My Paranoia

It won’t settle it much, but Amazon.com is now offering 5 GB of cloud storage for free. And, according to LifeHacker, if you buy just one MP3 album they’ll bump it up to 20 GB. I just signed up – you log in with your Amazon.com account – and haven’t pushed this around a lot, but it’s not a bad...

Journalism

March 28, 2011

It’s Time to Modernize Video Storytelling

Mike Borland linked to this great Adam Westbrook piece on the five television video conventions that need to be abandoned. Well worth a few minutes of your time, and watch the first video … that is, perhaps, the worst bit of b-roll I’ve ever seen – a jump cut, off the tripod and obviously faked. A trifecta of disaster.

Good Work/Journalism/Tech Talk/Video

March 27, 2011

A Room Without a View

NPR’s David Gilkey is in Japan and has filed a photo report, all shot through the broken windows of a destroyed hotel. Haunting stuff.

Good Work

March 26, 2011

The Kalish Workshop Returns

Certainly one of, if not the, best picture editing workshops is returning – application deadline for the Kalish Workshop is Monday, May 2. Just the tag line – “visual editing for the new newsroom” – makes me want to go. Get yours request in. From their blurb: The Kalish returns for its 22nd year after being completely re-tooled to fit...

Advice & Learning/Journalism

March 26, 2011

Sell (Tell) to Your Audience

Every now and then something catchy pops up in my Twitter feed that has, on the surface, nothing to do with visual journalism. But I click anyway and, today, courtesy of Rands (not his name or his initials, I suspect) came the following: Who is your audience? How do you connect with them? As journalists now, we have to have...

Journalism

March 26, 2011

Eight Apps Journalists Should Have

Whitney Mathews over at the Poynter Institute has a listing of eight apps we should have on our smart phones. Most of these I have and agree with, though I’m still not sure Instagram is a “news” app as much as a social networking/sharing app. But maybe I just don’t get it yet … entirely possible. I would add Evernote...

Journalism/Tech Talk

March 24, 2011

Dispatches from Libya by Yuri Kozyrez

Good Work/Journalism

March 23, 2011

CNN’s Margaret Moth Honored with a Named Fellowship

CNN has announced the Margaret Moth Masters Fellowship to honor one of their first camera women who died of cancer a year ago. A nice tribute, and a program all graduate students should look at getting involved with. (Thanks to CNN’s Victor Hernandez for the lede.)

Business & Industry/Journalism

March 22, 2011

Three More Journalists Arrested in Libya

Along with the news of the release of four New York Times journalists comes news that two journalists for Agence France-Presse and one for Getty have been detained in Libya. The two from AFP were picked up on late last week and there has been no word from or about them since Saturday.

Business & Industry/Journalism

March 22, 2011

Six Days in Captivity

The four New York Times journalists who were held in Libya have told part of their story now. It’s a harrowing account of the six days they were held, threatened and assaulted. “I heard in Arabic, ‘Shoot them,’ ” Mr. Shadid said. “And we all thought it was over.” Then another soldier spoke up. “One of the others said: ‘No,...

Business & Industry/Journalism