February 15, 2011 White House Internships Once again, the White House Internship program deadlines for the fall are coming up on March 13. Categories Advice & Learning/Journalism
February 15, 2011 Bearing Witness This is a program I hadn’t heard about until recently. Legendary musician Peter Gabriel is one of the driving forces behind Witness.org, a group that is putting video cameras into the hands of oppressed people to help document human rights violations around the world. From a CNN interview … Categories Business & Industry/Journalism/Photojournalism
February 15, 2011 Letting Leaders Be “Judged by Their Own People” Good interview/essay with photojournalist Peter Turnley, who has probably photographed more fallen world leaders than many of us can count. The value of access and the images created from great access can’t be underestimated. Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism
February 14, 2011 White House News Photographers Association’s Student Photo Contest The White House News Photographers Association’s annual student competition has an entry deadline of March 19, a little over a month away. Get your stuff together and get it submitted. No charge to enter, 25 photo maximum and your work could get seen by some pretty powerful folks. Why not? Categories Competitions
February 13, 2011 A War-torn Love Story An injured but seasoned photojournalist for the Associated Press, a young archivist for Agence France-Presse, a Virgin Mary medallion, a war, a helicopter crash, a recovery 20 years later, a return nearly a decade on. It’s the story of Henry Huet and Cecile Schrouben … and it’s a great read. (Thanks to Greg Mironchuk for the link.) Categories Journalism
February 13, 2011 Vlog: Self Defense, B-roll, Donuts and Upcoming Speakers Where we talk about self defense, b-roll, donuts, upcoming visitor Rebecca Burns and the NPPA’s Northern Short Course. Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Video
February 12, 2011 NPPA Advanced Storytelling Workshop Texas in April, what could be better? Honestly, I have no idea having only been there, or through there, in August 20-odd years ago. (I will be there in March, though.) Regardless … the NPPA’s Advanced Storytelling Workshop will be April 10-15 at Texas State University in San Marcos. From their site: Lots of people take pretty pictures; we will... Categories Advice & Learning
February 11, 2011 Another Big Picture-style Photo Blog Looks like Alan Taylor has launched The Atlantic’s large-photo blog with their In Focus page. Taylor was the guy behind Boston.com’s Big Picture which really started this style. My personal favorites: The Big Picture – This may be the original, certainly still one of the best Captured – Done by the Denver Post, this tends to go really deep into a visual... Categories Good Work
February 11, 2011 Jodi Bieber Wins World Press Photo Jodi Bieber has won the 2010 World Press Photo award for her portrait of an Afghan woman who was attacked by her husband and brother-in-law after she fled their violence. The image ran on the cover of Time Magazine and raised a lot of questions. From the prize announcement: The international jury of the 54th annual World Press Photo Contest... Categories Competitions/Good Work/Journalism
February 9, 2011 Need an Industry-Centric Romantic Laugh? Then 10,000 Words over on Media Bistro has a page of journalism Valentine’s Day messages for you. Categories Good Work