In a phone interview for the Top Five Photojournalism Stories of 2012, NPPA General Counsel Mickey H. Osterreicher talked about the importance of the settlement of the Glik (in the First Circuit) and Alvarez (in the Seventh Circuit) cases. Both decisions affirmed the right of amateurs and professionals to record the police in public. Below...
Andrew Dickinson is a senior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is originally from Kansas City, but has spent most of his time living in Nebraska since he started college. Check out more of his work here. Why did you go to India? I went to India along with a group of three professors and...
From the photographer: I grew up in Nowheresville, Ga. I don’t find self worth in my work. It’s not who I am. I have no glamorous story of picking up a camera as a small boy. I have never developed film in a dark room. I don’t really know how I got involved in photography. But I...
TAMIR KALIFA of Kensington, MD, is a recent graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with a major in photojournalism. From 2007-2008, he studied cinematography at the FAMU International Film Academy in Prague, Czech Republic. Tamir spent last summer freelancing in Israel, where his images appeared on the front page of The Jerusalem Post. He has also been...
There’s no law against bad design. Good thing, because many popular websites are terrible. For media outlets, the challenge of presenting reams of rotating content often produces visually unfriendly pages. The New York Times may practice great journalism, but according to Andy Rutledge, the website “presents a rather typical example of terribly-designed news.“ It doesn’t take Nancy Drew to...
You’ve read Part 1 of this series. You understand your potential audience, you’ve edited your photos with clear navigation in mind and you’ve professionalized yourself on social media. You’re feeling inspired and productive. You sit down at your computer, ready to put your work online. And…uh-oh. Suddenly, building a website feels as daunting as hand...
Down Time is Prep Time Ahh … winter break. A couple of weeks with nothing to do. Decompress, catch up with some buddies, tell all those high school kids how much cooler things were when you were there … ahhh, relaxation. Don’t worry about your future. Don’t worry about your impending graduation. Or those summer...
A photojournalist needs a website. Having a portfolio website in 2011 is as pro forma as getting your pictures in focus. Editors use portfolio websites to find freelancers, gauge job and internship applicants and follow the progress of photographers they know. Potential subjects use websites to see if you’ll present them fairly. Yet for some...
The Herald in Jasper, Ind. is now accepting internship applications for their 2012 Fall internship:
All through your life, you’ve been told that who you know is just as important as what you know. But how do you find those people to know? For starters, it’s more than handing out business cards at a conference. On Sunday, Nov. 6 at 9 p.m. the NPPA will host its next Student Chat...
Joel Hawksley is a senior studying photojournalism at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Originally from Kent, Ohio, he recently completed a summer internship at The Seattle Times. He was also a student at this year’s Eddie Adams Workshop in Jeffersonville, New York. Last summer, he interned at the Grand Rapids Press. His work has been...
Ryan Young is originally from Toledo, Ohio and is now a senior studying photojournalism at Ohio University. Aside from recently completing his internship at the Grand Rapids Press he has also completed an internship with The Elkhart Truth in Indiana. His work has been recognized by College Photographer of the Year, the Hearst Journalism Awards...
