Visual Journalism – Page 251 – Notes from aside the camera

September 28, 2009

AP Stylebook on the iPhone

Now there’s one fewer reason to screw up a state abbreviation – the Associated Press Stylebook is now available as an iPhone app. (Which has the Apple fan in me thinking iPhones should be required of all our students … hmmm.)

Advice & Learning/Journalism

September 28, 2009

Internship Opp: Mother Nature News

Mother Nature News is looking for an intern/campus corespondent – details are online here. Unpaid, but if you’re interested in what they’re doing it may be worth considering. This is an ideal internship for anyone interested in a career in writing, editing or environmental issues as this will be hands-on, real-life experience. MNN combines unconventional and lively original content alongside...

At Work/Business & Industry

September 28, 2009

Not Visual, but Digital(ish)

The Investigative Reporters and Editors group has a neat workshop planned around the idea of looking at data about your college or university. It runs in early January in Arizona, and there are scholarships available. Worth looking into – you could find sources for great visuals there.

Advice & Learning

September 22, 2009

On Campus: Furman Bisher

On Friday, Oct. 2, at 12:15 in the Drewry Room of Grady College, Furman Bisher will be talking. Bisher has been a sports columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the former president of a whole bunch of sports journalism organizations. Good opportunity to learn a lot in a short time about sports journalism.

Advice & Learning

September 19, 2009

NPPA Virtual Video Workshop is TODAY!!

Find a comfy chair with a good WiFi signal and stock up on snacks–you’ve got about 90 minutes until the National Press Photographers Association’s Virtual Video Workshop starts up. Lined up for the day: 10:30 a.m., Darren Durlach, WBFF-TV in Baltimore, NPPA’s 2009 Ernie Crisp Television News Photographer of the Year, “Six Essential Skills To Maximize Your Storytelling Process” 11:45...

Advice & Learning/Tech Talk/Video

September 18, 2009

I'm Not the Only One Who's Paranoid

Slaid Cleaves sings that, “Everything you love will be taken away.” Do you love your online life? Robert Scoble is afraid it may all rot away on you. Have you backed up enough today?

Tech Talk

September 18, 2009

On Being a Contendah

I have been a Joe McNally fan for … well, as for as long as I’ve known who he was. Which is a long, long time. And it’s not just because our sheepskins are stamped with the same bit of Latin (“Suos Cultores Scientia Coronat” – look it up). So the question then is, why? Well, he’s a heck of...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry

September 17, 2009

Ethics vs. Art: The Crop

The New York Times‘ Lens blog (really, a must read at this point) has an essay up by David Hume Kennerly where he talks about a photo he shot of former Vice President Dick Cheney at home with his family preparing a dinner meal. The image was picked up by Newsweek, but two thirds of it was cropped out. Kennerly...

Ethics & Legal/Good Work

September 16, 2009

"Free Press in Free Fall"

Art show opening over at ATHICA this weekend that looks at the problems of the journalism industry through art. May be worth swinging by, opening is Saturday, 7-9 p.m.

Advice & Learning

September 16, 2009

Internship Opportunity: National Student News Service

FYI … Internship Description Are you interested in media and journalism? Do you think campus media could do a better job of serving students? Do you wish coverage of student issues and activism was better? Are you interested in playing a formative role in a growing organization? Join the effort to improve campus journalism nationwide and apply for an internship...

At Work/Business & Industry