Visual Journalism

December 12, 2010

Breaking News Video on Deadline

The Guardian has posted a 12 minute long video story looking at the student protests in London. Think about that–a 12 minute breaking news video. The organizational skills and workflow efficiencies here must be stunning. (Thanks to Chuck Fadely who posted a link to this on the NewspaperVideo listserv.)

Categories Good Work/Video

December 10, 2010

Sign of the Times

The Gray Lady is being dropped from the S&P 500, along with Kodak. Netflix is taking one of their places.

Categories Business & Industry

December 10, 2010

Getting the Money Shot, British Style

Associated Press photographer Matt Dunham made the frame from the rioting in London this week, the one of Prince Charles and Camilla in their Rolls Royce as it is being pummeled by protesters. As we say, f/8 and be there. He certainly was.

Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Journalism

December 10, 2010

The Way It Was–Cattle Drives and Contract Shooters

Have been trying to catch up on my RSS feeds this morning and came across a link to the video below over on A Photo Editor. It’s a short documentary on David Burnett and a story he shot for Contact Press Images more than 30 years ago. (Yes, it’s a little hokey looking through the prism of time, but it’s...

Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Journalism/Video

December 10, 2010

Ugh … Santa, Again?

There are certain times of year that, I’ll be honest, I dreaded as a working photojournalist. While at the (now renamed) Middlesex News in Massachusetts, we covered something like 33 high schools. Which meant a lot of variety for Friday night football (cold or dark or cold and dark) and high school basketball. It also meant we covered 33 high...

Categories Good Work

December 9, 2010

Doing the Right Thing

The New York Times has decided to put contract photographer Joao Silver, who lost both of his legs while on assignment for them, on their photo staff. Justin Ide, whose tweet tipped me off to this, got it right with his hashtag–#yesvirginia. Nice work, Gray Lady. Very nice work.

Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Journalism

December 9, 2010

Singing Telegram for Breaking News: The New Social Media

This is totally for entertainment value … or not.

Categories Business & Industry/Journalism

December 9, 2010

It’s a Calling

Over on Black Star Rising, Northwestern University student Emily Chow talks about how she still believes there’s a future in photojournalism. I do, too, Ms. Chow. I do, too.

Categories Business & Industry/Journalism

December 9, 2010

“Long Term” Project

Not much journalism here, but it is documentary … a photo a day of their daughter, for ten years.

Categories Good Work/Photojournalism

December 9, 2010

Tilt-Shift Stop-Motion

Was looking through some old notes and there was a link to this video by Keith Loutit. It is shot using a tilt-shift (or perspective control) lens, shot as singles and then edited together to make a film. It is … cool.

Categories Good Work/Video