Visual Journalism – Page 298 – Notes from aside the camera

April 5, 2007

Toldeo Blade photo altered

The National Press Photographers Association has a story on a photo that was digitally altered in the Toledo Blade last week. Several other photographers were standing in the same position making the same image, all of which were published in various newspapers. According to the article, the photographer altered the photo for his personal files and accidentally sent it to...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

April 5, 2007

Department of Defense – Military Photographer of the Year Awards

The Department of Defense runs an annual competition for all military photographers, called MilPhog. The latest results are now online – good chance to see what combat photographers work on. (And three of my former students have done well – Stacy Pearsall, David Murphy and Christopher Stoltz were all in the Military Photojournalism program at Syracuse University when I was...

Good Work/Photojournalism

April 5, 2007

Leicas, free film and a pixelated future

It’s an odd day here in Athens. This morning, I took four boxes of frozen Fujicolor film out of the freezer and brought them to work. In a few short hours, I’ll be handing out the seven year old film to some of my students who are experimenting with their parents 35mm cameras. I’ve moved this film from freezer to...

Advice & Learning/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

April 4, 2007

USA Today has been assimilated …

In this era of rights-grabbing work-for-hire contracts, USA Today was a refreshing break. A fair wage for one-time usage, a payment schedule for re-use on the web or in print. It was a good deal – the paper got high quality work from respected journalists and those journalist received decent pay for their work. That’s changed according to an article...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry

April 4, 2007

twitter.com – World's Greatest Time Suck

I listen to a couple of podcats each week (MacBreak Weekly and This Week in Tech) and they’ve been yammering on and on about twitter.com … so I decided to try it. There is no reason to do this. Absolutely none. Yet, here I am … So, there must be a reason … right? Productivity monitoring, perhaps?

Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

April 4, 2007

The New York Times – on the move, literally

The Gray Lady is pulling up stakes – and moving in to a news building in the city that never sleeps. After a century at 229 West 43rd Street, staffers are beginning to move to a new tower at Seventh Avenue and 41st Street. Why is this important? The new building represents as much of a philosphical shift in the...

Journalism/Multimedia

April 3, 2007

Saving Texas newspapers

Vicki Vaughn of the San Antonio Express-News writes that newspaper expers are saying they “must engineer their own transformation” in a story about a Texas editors meeting. Say it together – progress or perish. Choose one, then do it well.

Business & Industry/Multimedia

April 3, 2007

Biased photos in Cleveland?

Ted Diadiun at the Cleveland Plain Dealer takes on the question of biased political photos in a recent column. Readers had been complaining that images of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice always seemed to make her look bad, so he asked the photo editor to take a look at the last year’s worth of published images. The results will …...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

April 3, 2007

Top 10 Web Design Tips

This has been out there for a while, so it’s not really new, but Jakob Nielsen has updated his “Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design.” Good reading if you’re about to build (or rebuild) your web pages. He’s done this for a few years – see the 2005 version, the 2003 version, the 2002 version, the 1999 version and the...

Advice & Learning/Graphic Design

April 2, 2007

Karen Ballard talks about photographing Sadam Hussein's arraignment

Photojournalist Karen Ballard was chosen to photograph the arraignment of Saddam Hussein six months after he was found in a spider hole. In a video posted on PhotographyChannel.tv, she talks about what happened that day and some of her impressions.

Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism