July 5, 2013 Faces of the Sun-Times A little behind on this, but CNN hired one of the Chicago Sun-Times staffers, Brian Powers, to shoot a series of portraits of those let go in the May lay offs. Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism
July 4, 2013 How Kodak Invented the Digital Camera and Destroyed Itself Okay, maybe the digital camera didn’t destroy Kodak, but it certainly played a huge role in the unravelling of the company over the last decade or so. In this Influencers and Innovation video, Steve Sasson talks about how he turned a charge-coupled device and a tape deck into the first digital camera. Petapixel had a lengthy piece by Kenny Suleimangich... Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
July 3, 2013 NPR Photography … Before NPR Existed NPR has posted a set of images it received from a Toronto shop which has a mid-century Crown Graphic with “NPR NY” etched into it. The owner, Al Suke, contacted NPR to ask if it was theirs. Problem is, NPR didn’t launch until 1970. And probably didn’t start shooting photos until a quarter century later. (Thanks to Sean Elliot for... Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk
July 3, 2013 Behind the Ponies CBS’ 60 Minutes did a piece on polo and they’ve posted a behind-the-scenes video of how they learned to shoot the game. Interesting to see the thought process behind it and their willingness to go back and get it right. A little sad watching the GoPro meet its demise … (Thanks to the Poynter Institute’s Al Tompkins for the link.) Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Video
June 30, 2013 Signs You’re an Ex-Journalist Generally that title would turn me off, but I clicked through to John Robinson’s list and so should you. Especially if you’re still working because number two is critical. Categories Journalism/Photojournalism
June 29, 2013 Pictures Don’t Just Happen The Chicago Tribune’s Brian Cassella tells the story of how he made a great image from the Blackhawks’ victory celebration. Categories Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
June 26, 2013 Flight to Nowhere This is what international reporting has been lowered to … photojournalists booked themselves on a 12 hour flight from Moscow to Cuba on a tip that Edward Snowden would be on the flight. He wasn’t. Categories At Work/Journalism/Photojournalism
June 26, 2013 Note: Victims Should Not Be Used As Platforms Not even sure where to start with this … a television journalist used a victim as a perch while delivering his report on flooding in northern India. We could play Ethics Bingo with this one … (Thanks to Sue Newhook for the link.) Categories Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism/Video
June 26, 2013 Alexia Foundation Remembers Bob Gilka I don’t know where he’d list it, but Bob Gilka’s influence on the Alexia Foundation is right up there with his National Geographic time. This morning, they put up a post about him, worth a read. Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism
June 26, 2013 Common Ground as a Book One of the best multimedia pieces I show to my students is Scott Strazzante’s Common Ground, the story of a chunk of land as it moves from a family farm to a subdivision. (And that’s a massive over-simplification of the project.) Strazzante has a Kickstarter project to produce a book of the work and there’s only a week left to... Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism