March 9, 2014 Time to Check Your Time It happened again last night – time shifted in a lot of places. Get out your cameras this morning and check the clock, chances are you’re off by an hour. Categories Tech Talk
March 8, 2014 Camera of Lust As often as I have told people I don’t care about cameras, that I care about pictures, you’d think I would actually believe that … and I do care much more about pictures than cameras when it comes to shooting and telling stories. But I am a geek and so I occasionally fall into the geek trap of lusting after... Categories Craft/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory
March 8, 2014 Baltimore Police Remove Photojournalist The Baltimore Sun is reporting that the Sun’s photo editor, Chris Asaaf, was physically moved from outside of a police line. They have a gallery of images taken by colleague Lloyd Fox that show the confrontation. The Poynter Institute has background information on previous confrontations in Baltimore. Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
March 7, 2014 Working With Trains There was a tragedy here in Georgia last month – a production company was filming on a railroad bridge when a train came through killing a 27-year-old camera assistant. The Hollywood Reporter has a look at what happened – and what went very, very wrong. From the story: CSX, the Florida-based railway company that owns the tracks, easement and trestle... Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism
March 7, 2014 What Do You Really Do? NPR did a really cool thing to coincide with the release of the monthly jobs report – they asked people to post a photo and answer what’s their job title and what do they really do. This is an awesome project for publications to try for the next one – go find people in your community and do short profiles... Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism
March 6, 2014 Journalism Still Matters Nice piece by SFGate’s David Wiegand on CBS News’ Scott Pelley, well worth a few minutes of your time. “I think people are being driven to brand names in journalism that they feel like they can trust,” he said. “Because never in human history has so much information been available to so many people, but unfortunately that also means that... Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism
March 5, 2014 Getty Goes Free Sort of. Getty images is pulling the watermark off of images and allowing users to embed the images free of charge. How does this work? The new money comes because, once the images are embedded, Getty has much more control over the images. The new embeds are built on the same iframe code that lets you embed a tweet or... Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
March 4, 2014 Why I’ll Never be an Artist Yep. Not going to happen. Categories Graphic Design/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
March 4, 2014 Dealing with Graphic Images We’ve had several classroom conversations about dealing with graphic images and how different newsrooms should handle different situations over the last few weeks, so the timing on this is pretty good for us: the Poynter Institute’s Kenny Irby will be leading a NewsU webinar on Grappling with Graphic Images on Thursday. Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
March 4, 2014 For the Educators in the Audience Need to spend off a little leftover FY14 travel funding? Here’s how to do it – Poynter’s Teachapalooza is one of the best journalism educator conferences around. Three (or five) days of über nerdy, totally geeked out learning about how to better teach journalism at the university level. Disclosure: I’m on the faculty, but I paid my way for the... Categories Advice & Learning/Graphic Design/Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Video