Chicago Sun-Times Fires Photogs, Trains Staff on iPhone
Yesterday, the Chicago Sun-Times announced that they were firing their entire photography staff. Today, they announced that they would start training their reporters to take their own photos using an iPhone. Media writer Robert Feder surfaced this on...
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Running the BBC courses on the beach at Newcastle-on-Tyne Last month, Dirck Halstead ran a provocative piece in his Digitaljouranlist.org asking whether we should abolish the term ‘Citizen Journalist’. This fired off the predictable howl-around, including a thread in...
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This just in! Jesus and his pals had dinner last night….. full story at 11. Last week, Dirck Halstead ran a very provocative piece in his Digital Journalist asking How To Save Photo Journalism. The answers were more depressing...
Read moreWhen Photographers Go To Video
David Hume Kennerly In 1990, on the heels of NY1, I was approached by a Wall Street guy who suggested that I should raise some money and start my own company based on the VJ concept. He took me...
Read moreA "Magnum" for Videographers?
Rwandan Refugees – Sebastao Salgado When I was a kid, my parents had a book, The Family of Man by Edward Steichen.
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