Barnstorm XXIV students announced
To View the 2011 Eddie Adams Workshop students, go here.
Summer’s the time to work on that portfolio… and yourself – 12 tips
By Michael P. King, Wisconsin State Journal Let’s face it. You don’t put a portfolio together for the hell of it. That set of prints or that website will hopefully get you work – freelance work, an internship or those rare things these days called “full-time jobs.” A photographer I work with here at...
Eddie Adams Workshop Q&A: Melissa Lyttle
This is the second part of our Q&A series looking back at the experiences of Alumni of the Eddie Adams Workshop, a gathering of 100 students held annually in Jeffersonville, NY. Applications are due May 27, 2011. Melissa Lyttle is a staff photographer at the St. Petersburg Times and founder of APhotoADay. Lyttle was a...
Scotland Field School, Part 1
Maddie McGarvey is a photojournalism major at Ohio University. McGarvey recently attended the 24th Scotland Field School, an Ohio University summer photography workshop based near Edinburgh, Scotland. Aaron Neighbor from Australia prepares to throw the shot put at the Highland Games in St. Andrews, Scotland on July 25, 2010. Originally written on August 2, 2010....
Powering A Nation covers the oil spill
Journalism students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are in Louisiana covering the oil spill. They are part of the News21 project called Powering a Nation. Follow their stories here.
University photography: Chris Radcliffe
Chris Radcliffe is the University Photographer at Eastern Kentucky University. A 2003 graduate of EKU, Radcliffe has been in his current position for six years. 2009 EKU Women’s Soccer seniors photographed for the soccer poster. (Chris Radcliffe/Eastern Kentucky University) VS: Talk about your background and how you got in to photography. Radcliffe: “Photography has been...
Discovering West Virginia Uncovered
West Virginia Uncovered is a project by the P.I. Reed School of Journalism at West Virginia University. The project sends journalism students to community newspapers around the state to teach multimedia storytelling. Project Director John Temple and Project Coordinator M.K McFarland talk about West Virginia Uncovered.  VS: How and why was West Virginia Uncovered...
Internship guidance: William Snyder, Rochester Institute of Technology
William Snyder is a professor and chair of the photojournalism program at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Prior to teaching at RIT, Snyder worked at The Dallas Morning News as a staff photographer, editor and the Director of Photography. He is a 1981 RIT graduate. Snyder won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1989...
NPPF Announces New Scholarship
“The National Press Photographers Foundation (NPPF) officers and board are pleased to announce the addition of a new scholarship in the memory of Seattle Times photographer Jimi Lott.  This will bring the total of NPPF’s annual scholarships and awards to $16,500 dedicated to helping young photojournalists succeed through education.” For more scholarship information and a...
Powering A Nation: UNC at Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill won gold in the Large Group Multimedia Project in the College Photographer of the Year Competition. The project, called Powering A Nation, is a News21 project. UNC also won silver, bronze and the award of excellence in the same category. Ashley Zammitt and Sara Peach were both...
Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, Part 2
The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar contest results were released Saturday. Emilio Morenatti, of the Associated Press, was awarded Best Portfolio. The Rich Mahan Student Portfolio award was given to Alex Welsh, of San Francisco State University. Zuma Press Founder Scott Mc Kiernan, center, talks to Tanner Curtis, bottom right, a junior photojournalism major at Western Kentucky,...
