Visual Journalism – Page 198 – Notes from aside the camera

March 15, 2011

We’ve Lost Brian Lanker

Pulitzer winner, newspaper photojournalist and book author Brian Lanker has passed after a brief bout with cancer. NPPA President Sean Elliot also has a post about his experiences meeting Lanker when he was in school.

Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

March 15, 2011

#SXSW Blog Briefs

This certainly isn’t complete, but here are some things I’ve tagged to go back to from other SXSW Interactive attendees … Daniel Spillers looks at not listening to your customers as a path to innovation and success. “Never ask people what they think of your product or idea.” (Reminds me of the Henry Ford comment about if he had asked...

Journalism/Multimedia

March 15, 2011

Online Learning Opportunity – Bag News Salon, March 20

This came across the transom, an online talk titled Assignment Egypt: Analyzing News Photos from the 18 Day Revolution. Sunday, March 20, from 10 to 11 a.m. (Eastern time).

Advice & Learning

March 13, 2011

Disconnecting, Reconnecting at #SXSW

Started off the morning with a great discussion on Disconnecting the Dots: How Our Devices Are Divisive. Roy Christopher, a grad student from the University of Texas at Austin and a one-time University of a georgia student, talked a bit about how technology was getting in the way of communicating wi each other and ourselves. Lots of notes on that,...

Advice & Learning

March 12, 2011

#SXSW Scene

Shot during a presentation that was, in part, about how bloggers use material from “professional” journalists.

Advice & Learning

March 12, 2011

Images from Japan

It is strange to be sitting at a massive conference that isn’t (directly) about journalism when there is a major breaking news story going on. Most conference I go to are journalism-based and if I were at one of those, that’s all we would be talking about. In between sessions, I’ve been looking online and both The Atlantic’s In Focus...

Good Work

March 12, 2011

Photojournalist Murdered in Libya

Al-Jazeera has reported that one of its photographers has been murdered in Libya.

At Work/Business & Industry

March 12, 2011

Notes from #SXSW Interactive

Have been tapping out notes furiously all day, going to do a bit of a copy and paste dump here. These are the things I have found to be interesting comments or ideas. Some are direct quotes, some are generalizations. Will attribute them when I can, but all of these are things I will be talking about more in the...

Advice & Learning

March 12, 2011

First iPad 2 in the Wild at #SXSW

Totally geeky here … but I spotted my first iPad 2 in a conference here at SXSW Interactive. Staci Kramer from PaidContent.org said she spent about 90 minutes in line on Friday to pick hers up here in Austin. She was testing out the video capability at the Changing News Rooms and News Consumers panel discussion.

Advice & Learning/Tech Talk

March 12, 2011

SXSW Survival Guide

I am down in Austin, Texas, at the SXSW Interactive conference and am learning a ton. First, I have learned that I need to post more, so today I am hoping to get up some short, quick posts about some of the sessions. Lessons from yesterday though, first … – SXSW is EPIC. I have covered and attended big things...

Advice & Learning/Thoughts & Theory