December 2011
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August 2011
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Six Journalists Under 30 to Watch, ONA Announces... →
futurejournalismproject:
The 2011 fellows are:
Lucas Timmons, 27, a data journalist and web producer for The Edmonton Journal in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;
Laura Amico, 29, founder and editor of Homicide Watch D.C. The site, based in the country’s capitol, covers every homicide in D.C. and includes news, obituaries, profiles, and more;
Lam Thuy Vo, 26, a multimedia reporter for The Wall...
July 2011
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Blog Design for Killer SEO →
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Apply for 2011 News Entrepreneurs Working through... →
From the UNITY site:
New U: News Entrepreneurs Working Through UNITY is a competitive program for journalists of color who want to become entrepreneurs. Funded by The Ford Foundation, the New U Fellowship supports and helps grow the creative ideas of participants through a national “startup camp” which will be held October 17-19, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada. In addition to offering a unique...
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Folio: 138 Mags Launch, 74 Titles Fold in First... →
Not bad, not bad magazine industry.
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June 2011
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Newsweek creates one of their most unethical photo...
In a show of extreme bad taste, Newsweek editor Tina Brown throws into our mailboxes a poorly written, hypothetical examination of Princess Diana’s life had she lived to be 50 years old.
BEFORE you look at all the photos on the site… take a look at the National Press Photographers Association’s code of ethics for visual (recently updated to include not only photo)...
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May 2011
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News:Rewired — the growing complexity of... →
soupsoup:
A selection of the most interesting things Mark Jones heard during journalism.co.uk’s News:Rewired event at the Thomson Reuters Building in Canary Wharf on May 27th.
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“It’s really difficult to hang black folks when the camera is...”
– Melba Patillo Beals, a member of the Little Rock Nine is quoted from her speech about why she became a journalist at her Alma mater San Francisco State University’s journalism department graduation ceremonies Saturday.
When the U.S. Supreme Court issued desegregation rulings in the matter of...
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“If you watch an Obama news conference, and watched a Bush news conference...”
– Sid Davis, the former NBC Washington bureau chief who covered nine presidents. From the U.S. News & World Report article, ”Veteran Journalists: Today’s White House Reporters Are Too Timid.”
Newseum launches YouTube channel dedicated to... →
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WatchThe author of “Information is Beautiful,” David McCandless was a print journalist longer than he has been designing.
I started as a programmer, and then I worked as a writer for many years, about 20 years, in print, online and then in advertising, and only recently have I started designing. And I’ve never been to design school.I’ve never studied art or anything. I just...
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“The way for newspapers is: less news, more knowledge. So we should start making...”
– From the blog of Jacek Utko, a news designer based in Warsaw, Poland who has redesigned two newspapers that have gone on to become the World’s Best Designed Newspapers by SND.
He also did this TED Talk about how design can save newspapers.
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“No virtuous man has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a...”
– H.L. Mencken (via bearbearpdx)
This man inspires me through the worst of days to be more cynical, more inquisitive and much more of a ball buster.
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Obama: Where's the National Public Radio table?
NPR table: WOOOO!
Obama: Oh, you guys are still here? ... Personally, I was looking forward to new programming like "No Things Considered" or "Wait Wait Don't Fund Me."
White House Correspondents' dinner, 2011
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“Every time I tune into C-SPAN it looks like they just had a fire drill”
– Seth Meyers, White House Correspondents’ Dinner on C-SPAN.
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Site dedicated to a contract photog for NYT whose... →
Terry Gross of NPR’s Fresh Air interviews Joao Silva:
“I have this fascination to be on the cutting edge of history [and] witness history firsthand. I’ve always wanted to show those that are fortunate enough not to live in a war zone the realities or certain realities of war zones, which is ultimately the point. We go out and we expose ourselves believing somehow that we...
April 2011
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NYT: Lara Logan goes back to work →
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“For Fish a great sentence is like a great athletic performance. It is an example...”
– Simon Blackburn, The New Republic. The Mighty Pen, a review of Stanley Fish’s How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One. (via futurejournalismproject)
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The writing process →
My process exactly!
katray:
missed the deadline. panic mode.
visualoop:
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LIFE slideshow: The day Einstein died →
There’s no greater feeling than working for an editor you trust.
…Morse headed to Manhattan, and the LIFE offices. “I get to New York with the film, and there are signs all over the place: ‘Ralph, see Ed!’ Ed Thompson was LIFE’s managing editor. A great journalist. We all liked him, and trusted him. Ed says, ‘Ralph, I hear you have one hell of an...
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“I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.”
– Henry R. Luce
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Grants for photojournalists working for social... →
copyeditor:
ijnet:
Photojournalists working for social change can apply for a grant.
The Open Society Documentary Photography Project, sponsored by the Open Society Foundations, offers grants to encourage new ways of presenting documentary photography to the public.
Photographers will take an existing body of work on a social justice or human rights issue and devise an innovative way of...
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NYTimes: Unpaid Interns, Complicit Colleges →
Thanks, New York Times. But I appreciate the similarities between journalists and rock stars: You have to start in the crappy dive bars — while people throw peanuts at you — to get an inkling of credibility in the future.
ON college campuses, the annual race for summer internships, many of them unpaid, is well under way. But instead of steering students toward the best opportunities...
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Los Angeles Times internship programs →
latimes:
We’ve gotten a lot of questions about internships at the Los Angeles Times. Deadlines for summer internships have passed, but prospective applicants for future terms should keep www.latimes.com/internships bookmarked.
Reporters who have already graduated college should look into Tribune’s Metpro program, which places beginning journalists in a Tribune newsroom.
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