Visual Journalism – Page 93 – Notes from aside the camera

April 5, 2013

Presidential Propaganda

Over at the National Journal, Ron Fournier takes aim at the limited press access being granted by the White House. Again, for those not following along, “news” delivered by the White House is not journalism. Information, yes, but not journalism. There will be a test at the end of the semester on this. (Thanks to Susan Walsh for the link.)

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism

April 4, 2013

NPPF Scholarship Deadline Approaching

Less than two weeks now until the application dealing for the National Press Photographers Foundation scholarships. You could score $2,000 – why not try?

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

April 4, 2013

Celebrating 50 Years of the Instamatic

Tom Tobin of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle has the story of the fiftieth anniversary of Kodak’s Instamatic, the camera many said changed the shape of photography. The camera, all modern plastics and elegantly simple, launched the first really successful cartridge based film system that eliminated the, ahem, “hassle” of loading film into a camera. The square format lasted for...

Photojournalism/Tech Talk

April 3, 2013

Choosing Your News Source

Technology has changed the way many of us learn information. Used to be, you went to the library or turned to the news. One was old and out of date, the other was in a big building downtown. (Insert rimshot, which one of my students now keeps loaded on her laptop during class … I love these kids.) We do...

Business & Industry/Craft/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

April 3, 2013

Mini Micro Stock?

The must-read blog, A Photo Editor, put up a post yesterday that is not an April Fool’s Day joke about Getty Images sending out a note regarding sub-penny royalty payments. Reaction 1 – A joke, right? Must be. Reaction 2 – How in the world are they licensing images for less than a penny? Reaction 3 – Taken from the...

Business & Industry/Photojournalism

April 1, 2013

Don’t Play Dumb

I think I want every one of my students to read Peter Iglinski’s Poynter piece on avoiding science writing mistakes. Especially number seven – nothing drives me crazier than when a student closes their $2,000 laptop and puts down their smartphone and says, “Computers and me just don’t get along …”

Advice & Learning/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

March 31, 2013

New Tascam DSLR Audio Recorder

This looks very, very cool – Tascam is introducing a new audio recorder to mount under DSLR cameras. It has all the bells and whistles and a price that puts it below a lot of the others out there. Wantwantwant. (Thanks to David Simpson for the link.)

Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Video

March 29, 2013

Dave Labelle at Grady College

[View the story “Dave Labelle at Grady College” on Storify] Dave Labelle at Grady College On Thursday, March 28, the National Press Photographers Association’s Student Chapter at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication brought Dave LaBelle to campus. The room was packed, here’s some of what was said. Storified by Mark E. Johnson· Fri, Mar...

Advice & Learning/Craft/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

March 29, 2013

Far Afield, But Parallel

My friend Arlo Abrahamson, a public affairs guy in the Navy, sent me a link to an OpEd in The Washington Post by the Navy’s chief information officer, Rear Adm. John F. Kirby, in which he talks about the need for service members to do a better job of explaining what they do to their fellow citizens. As I read...

Journalism/Thoughts & Theory

March 28, 2013

A Really Good Underwater Housing

This is the kind of story that restores my hope for humanity … and makes me want to get an underwater housing for my camera.

Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory