Visual Journalism – Page 267 – Notes from aside the camera

September 17, 2008

Newark Star-Ledger Threatens to Close

Yep, they sent a notice to their employees yesterday and posted it to the web – if the Newark Star-Ledger can’t get a new contract with the driver’s union by October 8, the paper will be put up for sale or close by January 5, 2009. The Star-Ledger has been doing some innovative online stuff and isn’t a small paper...

Business & Industry

September 17, 2008

THIS Changes Everything … Perhaps …

Canon has announced it’s replacement for the long-in-the-tooth 5D, the 5D Mark II. All of the goodness you’d expect are there – higher resolution (a whopping, card-massacring 21 megapixels), better autofocus, better shadow detail, better noise control at high ISO, etc., all with the pure joy of a full frame CMOS chip. As with Nikon’s D90, there’s now a video...

Audio/Multimedia/Tech Talk/Video

September 15, 2008

Biased Photographers

Honestly, this makes me pretty sick … It is hard enough to do what we do everyday without having “colleagues” gloat about making subjects look bad.

Ethics & Legal

September 10, 2008

Shooting Blind

CNN has a story on a group of Israeli photographers … who are blind. Not journalism, but … interesting.

Good Work

September 10, 2008

YouTube Tries Journalism … Again

Google and YouTube have announced a video journalism contest, co-sponsored by the Pulitzer Center and Sony. First prize is a Sony VAIO laptop and $10,000 to do another story. There are some flaws in the plan, but this may be the start of Google (who owns YouTube) pushing into the concept of “citizen journalism.” (Thanks to colleague Kaye Sweetser for...

Competitions/Journalism/Multimedia/Tech Talk

September 8, 2008

Last Shot

During the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis, Associated Press photojournalist Matt Rourke was arrested while covering a protest. The last shot he got off has been published now, along with his story.

At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

September 5, 2008

Georgia PPA Convention

This weekend, the Georgia Professional Photographers Association has their annual convention in Athens. (The Southeast Professional Photographers Association convention is here in the spring, too.) There’s a trade show (which you can get into for free) as well as a lecture series (which you have to pay for). Not a bad opportunity to go look at photo stuff for a...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Tech Talk

September 4, 2008

Jobs Do Exist

The new media hiring revolution appears to be here, as Rob Curley is advertising for folks to join him in the Sun. Newspapers may be dying, journalism is not.

At Work/Business & Industry/Multimedia

September 4, 2008

Seeing to Learn

Mindy McAdams, Flash Goddess, has a post on picture galleries on her Teaching Online Journalism blog. My Advanced Photojournalism students are required to blog this semester, and I told them I’d share some of the photo gallery-type pages I look at. I use the NetVibes.com RSS reader to keep all of these links in one place. (And this is just...

Advice & Learning

September 2, 2008

The State Fair on Speed

Ben Garvin, late of the Berkshire Eagle and now of the Pioneer Press, has strung together 4,000 still photos to make a two minute video-esque look at the Minnesota State Fair.

Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk