Deals to be had! The Kalish is on sale because like any good editor, they want you to come in under budget. June 12-16, 2009. $500!
What did I learn at Kalish? Photojournalists can be fragile. I’m not so fragile. People from northern Minnesota tend toward absurd strong-as-ox behavior regardless of reality. And we assume everyone [...]
MagCloud.com is out of beta and into democracy. Michael Mendenhall announced Hewlett Packard is ready to jump into magazine publishing. Or rather, they will push you into self-publishing. Mendenhall said, “How would I define a publisher? Anyone who wants to be one. We are democratizing publishing.”
At first glance, my foray into becoming an Oprah media [...]
Conference runs March 19-21. Easy drive from New England. And even cheaper ride via Bolt Bus - bring your laptop and work as you travel! Just how much pavement between here and there?
from Boston: 398 miles
from Concord: 416 miles
from Portland: 485 miles
from Hartford: 307 miles
from Providence: 363 miles
Key deadlines are February 27th for contest and [...]
Ah, spring in New England - time for the melting snow to reveal just how much trash people threw out car windows, dropped “accidently” in the subway, or those spare bits that flew off the trash truck. Okay, snow doesn’t hide that subway trash. Why does Boston allow treats on the subway? We cannot be [...]
“This post will interest you only if you’re totally obsessed with the Shepard Fairey Fair Use case.” More like obsessed, freaked out, and slightly disturbed by legal loopholes. And enjoying the irony of his last name.
As a photographer, I didn’t want to give away rights; as an editor I don’t want to violate usage. Fair [...]
No resident of Rhode Island is more than a 30 minute drive from the water’s edge. Could explain the overwhelming amount of wedding photographers in the state. Ocean, sand, sun screams for a beachfront wedding. Four brave photojournalists make Rhode Island, our region 1 talent search location, their base. Bucking the trend, they are covering [...]
FishbowlDC reported that Tom Kennedy, managing editor of multimedia at The Washington Post resigned Feb. 3 and will leave the office Feb. 13. A job vacancy at a newspaper?! Where he is going no one is saying (on record).
General industry news. If you are looking for help crafting your proposal as to why your newspaper [...]
I’m talking to you Connecticut when I say make those images lower rez on your websites. We are circling back to our survey of member photographers and the Constitution State is in the spotlight. Twenty eight photographers are listed on the NPPA ‘Find a Photographer’ feature. Functionality folks. I would like to tell you that [...]
Greetings Region 1 NPPA members! I was originally going to start at the beginning of the year but got behind and well, you know how work goes. So February looked appropriate to kick things off for 2009. I promise to be more up to date in the future.
Yesterday, the results of the 2008 annual clip [...]
Stephen Crowley has a fabulous video of the pool experience at the White House. Rumor says he put an Olympus Stylus point-and-shoot on the side of his Canon 5D. Posted on the NYT Caucus blog last week, worth a look. Image nutgraph:
wait in line
check out President’s phone
snap, snap, snap, flurry, snap
leave office
The experience reminds me [...]
