Aurora in Portland has posted news about Paula Lerner’s recent award for work done for the Globe and Mail. -Don

The data crunchers at CPOY plotted the shutter, aperture, focal length and camera choice for the 636 sports action entries for the 2009 contest. I want all contests to create pie charts for the public. World Press Photos, NPPA contest or maybe even monthly clips! I’m impressed that anyone can capture a sports moment with [...]

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 [...]

The paper fills an open photo staff position. Unheard of in the recession! Welcome Chris Evans. I asked Director of Photography Jim Mahoney about our new Boston photo friend, a transplant from Springfield. If you haven’t checked out the Herald’s photo and media page yet – run to look. Showcasing more galleries and photographer work. [...]

Lucky day for blog readers. Every month or so I google various photographers I know and like to catch up with their work. While looking for D.C. photographer Hector Emanuel, I came across an entry about him on Verve Photo – a documentary photography blog by Geoffrey Hiller. Hector joins 23 other NPPA members who [...]

Photojournalism’s digital alteration prevention strategy seems to be to wait for an infraction, blame photographer, check photographer off list of future offenders, put ethics in check, feel better about industry, wait for next infraction. Perhaps digital alteration will always be the case of a rogue photographer. But we won’t know because we tend not to [...]

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 [...]

Killzone, Comet Crash, Street Fighter, Red Faction: Guerrilla, God of War, Splinter Cell: Conviction, Modern Warfare, Assassin’s Creed. Slugs for the week’s news budget? Nope. Titles of the most popular video games on the market and showcased at E3 Expo. Games already use violence for entertainment. New York times Op-ed columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]