Visual Journalism – Page 282 – Notes from aside the camera

December 6, 2007

"First Year Out"

Mindy McAdams, Flash Goddess, posted about a New York Times piece on a man released from prison after serving 16 years for a crime he didn’t commit. It breaks a lot of rules we believe to be true about audio slideshows, but works really well.

Good Work/Multimedia

December 6, 2007

Illinois High School Association sues the Illinois Press Association

In their ongoing battle, the IHSA has now filed suit against the IPA.

Ethics & Legal

December 5, 2007

Internship: NYTimes.com

If you’ve got your multimedia skills up to snuff, the New York Times wants you.

At Work/Business & Industry/Multimedia

December 5, 2007

Passed Along …

While heading to lunch, one of my colleagues, Dr. Hugh Martin, said one of our shared students came in to class on Monday a little frazzled. Seems she’d spent most of the weekend working on an audio editing project and said, “I now know what an ‘um’ looks like …“

Multimedia/Tech Talk

December 4, 2007

New Photojournalism Center

The Angus & Betty McDougall Center for Photojournalism Studies has been created at the University of Missouri.

Advice & Learning

December 3, 2007

"Ian's Peace"

The Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer has posted a video package on Ian Creath, a 19-year-old who died at a local quarry. A team from the paper had been working on a project at the quarry when they met Creath a month before he died. The piece is narrated by his mother and is very well shot and edited.

Good Work/Multimedia/Tech Talk

November 29, 2007

Offline for a Few Days

I’ll be at the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar for the next two days. If something big happens, I’m sure you’ll find out about it. Full report when I return.

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

November 28, 2007

Internship: Washington Times

FYI … Summer Photo Intern – The Washington Times Washington, D.C., is the place to be this summer as candidatesrace to the White House. The Washington Times is a metro daily located in the District ofColumbia, with an award-winning photo staff. We are nowaccepting applications for our summer internship program. Ourcoverage, which centers on national political trends, stressesthoughtful, analytical long-term...

At Work/Business & Industry

November 28, 2007

New Lincoln Photo

Some of you may have seen the news that a “new” photo of President Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg was found. Now, the New York Times has a column about the photo and it asks some questions we, as photojournalists, should be thinking about. In class this week we talked about the differences between “general news” photographs and “documentary” photographs. How...

Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

November 28, 2007

60 Ways to Find Inspiration

Over on the Photopreneur blog, they’ve got a list of 60 things you can do to get inspired.

Good Work/Tech Talk