Visual Journalism – Page 287 – Notes from aside the camera

October 7, 2007

UGA Photojournalism Students at Petit Le Mans

On Saturday, October 6, 13 University of Georgia photojournalism students headed out to Brasleton, Ga., for the 10th Annual Petit Le Mans and the Second Annual Motorsports Photojournalism Workshop. What? Yep, for the second year Grady College students spent a day covering the ten-hour (or 1000 miles) sports car race sanctioned by the American Le Mans Series. Three editors worked...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism

October 4, 2007

Yet More Student Blog Work

Someone lit a fire under those kids … check out Richard Hamm’s “phlog” (as Kelly Wegel is fond of saying). He’s thrown up some galleries of older stuff to go with the new work.

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Multimedia/Tech Talk

October 4, 2007

Ten percent of page views at NYTimes.com are of …

… slideshows. So says Vivian Schiller, general manager of NYTimes.com, in a piece on MarketWatch. (Thanks for the lead goes to Mindy McAdams, Flash Goddess.)

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Graphic Design/Journalism/Multimedia

October 1, 2007

Workshops of Note

The NPPA’s Flying Short Course: Washington, D.C., on October 26 & 27. This is the 50th anniversary and looks to be hosted at USA Today’s headquarters.The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar: Gwinnett, Ga., on November 30 and December 1. Email me if you’re interested and I’ll put together a contact list. Do it now so we can try to fund some of...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry

October 1, 2007

Reuters on Kenji Nagai

The Reuters photo blog has a brief on the image of Japanese journalist Kenji Nagai who was killed in Myanmar last week.

Good Work/Journalism/Tech Talk

October 1, 2007

UGA Magazine Club

Wednesday, Oct. 3 at 6:30 p.m. – The Magazine Club is having a meeting and Kelly Simmons, editor of Georgia Magazine, is coming to chat with us. It’s 6:30 in Journalism 505. Georgia Magazine is looking for freelance writers, so this could be a good opportunity to get some clips, as well as network and get career advice.

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism

October 1, 2007

The Real Reason Newspapers Need to do Video

The Austin American-Statesman shows us why we need journalists who are prepared to work in all areas … (Okay, for some real commentary on the YouTubification of Amer … well, the world, try this piece instead.)

Good Work/Tech Talk

October 1, 2007

The War on Error

That Aaron Johnson, he just cracks me up every day now …

Journalism/Tech Talk

September 28, 2007

More Student Blogs

Some sent, some found. (Are you trying to hide these from me or something?) Rusty Bailey – no photos, yet. (Right?)Tyler GoforthWaites Laseter

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September 28, 2007

Blogging For Bucks

Sort of … Dr. Kaye Sweetser points out that here is now a scholarship for bloggers … and, at $10,000, it’s, like, real money. (I’m SO going after my undergrad degree again with this.) More details details are on the CollegeScholarshop.org site.

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