Region 1 Visual Journal(ism)

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 [...]

The NPPA registration gates are open for the 2009 Multimedia Immersion workshop from June 6-10 in shiny Las Vegas. Open to 50 photojournalists with a 2:1 student to trainer ratio.
Let’s compare those numbers to my Vegas wedding. 14 people with a 7:1 guest to bride ratio.

Teachers this year include Regina McCombs, Rob Rosenthal, Coburn Dukehart, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

NPPA Region One is proud to announce it is co-sponsoring the photojournalism track at the New England Press Association convention in February.
The event will be held at the Boston Park Plaza on February 6 & 7 2009. NEPA is the largest press association in New England and serves 525 member newspapers [...]

The meltdown of newspapers is suddenly big, big news. Coincidence that the industry became a media darling after the Chicago Tribune threatened bankruptcy? Hometown of President-elect Obama where a bazillion journalists are camped out waiting for the journey east? However we got in the media spotlight (including a sketch on The Daily Show!), with [...]

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 is [...]

English is read left to right. The upper left corner of a site is often considered the start point and valuable real estate. But how to people continue to scan the page?
Gender matters - especially when you move past click-thrus and look at conversion triggers. According to an Enquiro Research white paper called ‘Website Barrier [...]

Tonight, Monday, August 18, there will be an hour long documentary on PBS on Roy Stryker and the F.S.A. photographers that is described in the NY Times as “how Mr. Stryker turned a small government agency’s New Deal project to document poverty into a visual anthology of thousands of images of American life in the [...]

Is your newsroom just getting started with multimedia? Or have you been doing it for years?
Either way, NEAPNEA’s 2008 Newspaper Film Festival will offer you a chance to learn from the experiences of your colleagues from around New England and take your multimedia newsroom to the next level.
Registration forms are available [...]