Visual Journalism – Page 272 – Notes from aside the camera

April 23, 2008

Now Available: My Dream Job

For years I joked the ultimate job for me was photo editor at the Wall Street Journal. Because, as you may know, they never ran photos. Saunter in to the daily news meeting and have an editor bark out section titles, then call, “PHOTO!” And calmly respond, “Not today, boss, maybe tomorrow.” On Wednesday, the venerable WSJ (for years more...

Good Work

April 23, 2008

Ahhh, Blogging and Sports Comes of Age

Former student Tom O’Connor forwarded along a New York Times story about sports organizations wrestling with the blogging world. Do they credential them? Do they limit their online “reporting?”

At Work/Business & Industry

April 21, 2008

Saw the News, Bought the T-shirt

I am all for news organizations finding a way to stay financially viable. Mostly, I believe if they can remain relevant to their readers, they’ll make it. (I know, overly simplistic, but that’s the core for me – stay relevant.) While poking around CNN.com today, I saw an extra little icon at the end of a couple of story headlines....

Thoughts & Theory

April 18, 2008

The Homicide Blog

Not much here in the way of photojournalism, but CNN.com has a story up on Jill Leovy who, for the last year, worked on the Los Angeles Times‘ Homicide Blog. Street level reporting at its truest form, Leovy went and talked with families and friends of more than 800 homicide victims over the last year.

Journalism

April 18, 2008

One for the Soon-To-Be-Graduates

Lisa Williams over at the Idea Lab has a post on the “10 Things Journalists Should Know About Surviving in a High-Tech Industry.” It took me a moment with thinking of “journalism” as a “high-tech industry,” but it is. A lot of the insane things dot-commers were doing a decade ago we’re doing now … a decade late. Don’t know...

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

April 15, 2008

Exhaustion

That’s what I’m still feeling, but it’s a good thing. This past weekend was our Third Annual UGA Photojournalism Weekend Workshop, this year based here in Athens. Visiting editor Mike Roy, from the Westchester (N.Y.) Journal, with help from USA Today’s Katye Martens and the Charleston (S.C.) Post and Courier’s Sarah Bates, put together a video on the weekend’s activities....

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Tech Talk

April 15, 2008

Over-Photoshopping

Mindy McAdams, Flash Goddess, wrote about a blog post by Carrie Niland, who I know but didn’t know had a blog … Anyway, Carrie takes on an over-toned image by a former intern that recently appears in Photo District News. The comments are as good as the entry.

Ethics & Legal/Good Work

April 9, 2008

World Nomad Photo Competition

It says you can join a National Geographic photographer in Australia … Fine print is a little, well, odd … seems you need to fly yourself there and they’ll fly you back. Not sure on that, though.

Competitions

April 7, 2008

Pulitzer Prizes

Announced today … For Spot Braking Photography, Reuters’ Adrees Latif for his photo of wounded Japanese photographer Kenji Nagai in Myanmar. For Feature Photography, Preston Gannaway of the Concord (N.H.) Monitor for photos of a family coping with a parent’s terminal illness.

Competitions/Good Work

April 7, 2008

Brave New World

This will only be filed under my “Rants and Rambles” category, because that’s all it is. A student of mine, while working on a project for his history class, took some photos of a chicken processing plant. He stood on the side of the road, took photos of what was plainly visible … and was then questioned by not just...

Thoughts & Theory