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The Eagle has landed, again.

October 14th, 2009 | NH, business, industry news, layoffs/cuts/buyouts, management | No comments

Talk about economic recovery! New Hampshire welcomed back the Claremont Eagle Times. The newspaper shut the doors and laid everyone off in July 2009. The new owner is Sample News Group - a company that owns several local papers along the east coast. By my research, the two are perfect partners. Both entities fly very [...]

Modular Redesigns. Good for images? Hmmm.

August 31st, 2009 | business, industry news, web | No comments

The LA Times always wants you to find your way home. The paper’s site redesign goals were streamlined navigation and, as CyberJournalist points out, a better video experience. While newspapers and magazines strive to break out of the rectangle confines of columns and pictures in print, seems the online world is rushing back into the [...]

Resolve your fears. liveBooks series has after staff resources.

August 17th, 2009 | business, education, happy nugget, projects | No comments

Resolve blogger Miki Johnson and the folks at liveBooks created the After Staff series to help share, inform and enlighten ex-staff photographers from magazines, newspapers and agencies who are transitioning into an after staff career shift. The week-long series is finished and archived online.
“We decided to do our part by developing this online home for [...]

I didn’t make $4,000 from the Gates/Crowley arrest. You?

July 30th, 2009 | MA, business, industry news, news coverage | No comments

“So I grabbed my camera, because when you see police, you know something’s going on.’’ A victory for citizen journalism. Big round zero for the pros. The Boston Globe tracked down new amateur photographer William B. Carter who snapped the now famous photo of Gates on his front porch in handcuffs. Carter, a retired bank [...]

Word of the Day: Transition

June 19th, 2009 | business, industry news, layoffs/cuts/buyouts, multimedia, web | No comments

As some of you may know, I am in the midst of the longest job search in the history of long job searches. We timed a move to Boston in 2008 to coincide with the stock market crash. With such pitch-perfect timing, rather than rent a car to move north I should have bought a [...]

Fotomoto. Sell photos on your website.

May 29th, 2009 | business, industry news, technology, web | 2 comments

Good day for you readers. I recently came across two super fantastic sites. Trendspotting and print buying.
Type and bookmark Springwise. Over 8,000 trendspotters from around the world send in the newest in funky, useful, innovative entrepreneurial ideas and companies. Currently, the site splits the posts into 20 industries including marketing and advertising, style and design, non-profit [...]

Sell interns! Donate salaries! Buy content!

May 19th, 2009 | business, happy nugget, industry news, management | No comments

Industries are tripping over themselves to develop innovative ways to make money, use social media, keep their day jobs and produce work all at the same time. Signs that we are picking up speed to happier times or heading into a tunnel of desperation?
Jane Hamsher, a writer and movie producer (Natural Born Killers), created firedoglake [...]

Alchemy Hour for The New York Times

May 11th, 2009 | business, industry news, technology, web | No comments

That is the period of time when a surfer enjoys the best a swell has to offer. Not a water baby myself, I hear the result is like some kind of magical power. Enter the partnership between the New York Times and Adobe Reader launched the Times Reader 2.0. Abracadabra! Content is sold! Pay nothing [...]

Save a magazine, go buy a car.

May 1st, 2009 | business, industry news | No comments

Portfolio magazine billed me $12.00 in April for a print subscription. Two weeks later, Conde Naste stops publication. Same situation with the old Domino title. Billed then closed. Newsweek, Wired and The New Yorker beware. I have recently sent my cursed money your way.
Truth be told, the downfall of Portfolio is not my fault. According [...]

Why use a release?

April 13th, 2009 | business, happy nugget | No comments

Getty Images knows the answer. And not in a useless philosophical dribble way. The agency provides contributors releases to download in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Poland, Russian, Spanish, English and Portuguese (European and Brazilian - a nod I’m sure to the photographic marketing power of Mrs. Tom Brady). Like the Rosetta Stone of releases. [...]