Several blogs have reported the Forbes.com quote “Of the $368 billion marketers plan to spend this  year, 32.5% will go toward digital; 30.3% to print.” Easy read is the demise of print is now and move aside for a digital explosion. But according to Outsell, the company which performed the study, “Ad spending for magazines [...]

A classroom moment. No Plastic Sleeves, co-authored by Endicott College professor Larry Volk, helps photographers master the art of the portfolio. Learn how to present yourself. Reinvention Weekend: VII photo agency, Mediastorm and PhotoShelter are just a few of the headliners at American Society of Picture Professionals annual conference held from April 15-18, 2010 in [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]