Local Stuff – Page 6 – Visual Journalism

September 16, 2009

"Free Press in Free Fall"

Art show opening over at ATHICA this weekend that looks at the problems of the journalism industry through art. May be worth swinging by, opening is Saturday, 7-9 p.m.

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March 5, 2009

Weekend Workshop Round Table Talks

As part of this year’s Photojournalism Weekend Workshop, we’re going to have a few informal round-table discussions on issues the editors and our students are wrestling with. The schedule is below and all of these will be held in the Photojournalism Lab (room 130 of Grady College). If you’re around and want to sit in, you’re more than welcome to...

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February 12, 2009

Speaker: Chris Weston, Feb. 18

Make sure this is on your calendar: Chris Weston, managing editor at the Greenville (S.C.) News, will be doing a talk on “Transforming Newsrooms Amid Disruptive Innovations.” It’ll be in the Drewry Room on Wednesday, Feb. 18, at 12:15. See Sophie Barnes in room 233 by Tuesday so you can get free pizza. Weston is a good friend to Grady...

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August 26, 2008

Local Speaker: Jim Fiscus

FYI … This Thursday, August 28th, the featured speaker in ADPR 3150 will beadvertising and editorial photographer Jim Fiscus. If you’ve been to theNational, you might have seen Jim’s portrait of the hip hop band Outkast in thebar (terrific photo!). We’ll meet at 6 p.m. in room 248 of the SLC. Here’s a bit more info about JimFiscus: In 15...

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April 24, 2008

Kael Alford on Campus – April 24 – ROOM CHANGE

Mark this on your calendar – photojournalist Kael Alford will be speaking at the Student Learning Center (room 248 – changed room) on Thursday, April 24 at 4:30 p.m. Her work from Iraq was featured in the Georgia Review magazine last year.

Advice & Learning/Good Work

April 2, 2008

UGAzine Looking for Photo Stories

Passing along … Each semester, ugazine publishes a two-page, color Photo Essay for thedepartment “In A Thousand Words.” All submissions will be reviewed by ourPhoto Editor, Editor-In-Chief and Managing Editor. If your work is selected forpublication, then you’ll be asked to submit a brief (2-3 sentence) summaryparagraph of the story to accompany the photos and captions.To submit your work, please...

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February 28, 2008

REPOST: "Breaking News" – Lecture TODAY

This morning, I filled the Drewry Room with an exhibition from the Associated Press that looks at their history. Tied into their book “Breaking News: How the Associated Press has Covered War, Peace and Everything Else,” the show will be up until Friday, February 29. Additionally, at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 28, Michael Giarrusso, the AP’s Regional News Director...

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January 29, 2008

Speaker: Dennis Dimick, Thursday, Jan. 31

Dennis Dimick, executive editor at National Geographic, will be in the photo lab from 11 a.m. to 12 noon on Thursday, talking about environmental coverage. All are welcome. This precedes his Charter lecture in the afternoon.

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January 14, 2008

Guest Speaker Jim Stovall – Thursday, Jan. 24, 11 a.m.

Professor Jim Stovall will describe the Tennessee Journalist, the student news web site he created at the University of Tennessee. Prof. Stovall was the brainchild behind Dateline Alabama and runs JProf.com, as well. He’ll be here to talk with us about student news web sites and is a jack-of-all-codes, so to speak, and can help us think about what we’re...

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December 7, 2007

ScanAthens.com

One of the Advanced Photojournalism students, Richard Hamm, pointed out that Clarke County police, fire and emergency medical services, as well as University of Georgia campus police, have their radio traffic broadcast on the web through ScanAthens.com. Looks like you can have it fed into iTunes, a Real Audio player, Windows Media player and a few others.

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