October 7th, 2008 Archive

Training Day? Not at most newsrooms.

October 7th, 2008 | business, education, industry news | No comments

Hollywood’s 2001 movie follows detectives Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke around for 24 hours. While I look for gainful employment (trailing spouse, photo editor, life story synopsis here), I thought I’d take advantage of time. I signed up for a year’s subscription at Lynda, an online software training site. We all skill build. The question [...]

James Nachtwey’s Wish.

October 7th, 2008 | industry news, multimedia, projects | No comments

In 2007, James Nachtwey got $100,000 and one wish to change the world. He took that money and embarked on an 18 month/7 country project documenting the epidemic of drug-resistant tuberculosis or XDR-TB. You can watch and listen to him talk about his project while accepting the Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) prize last year. A [...]