Eye on the Hawks Photo Blog – Journal:
Eye on the Hawks is a photo blog created and maintained by team photographer Rod Mar. Here, you will find images and commentary as he covers the Seahawks both on-the-field and off, from practices to games, from film room to the locker room.
‘Truth’ vs. ‘facts’ from America’s media — latimes.com:
Maybe Americans should know better. Maybe they shouldn’t fall for the latest imbecilic propaganda and scare tactics. Maybe. But a citizenry is only as well-informed as the quality of information it receives. One can’t expect Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin or the Republican Party or even the Democrats to provide serious, truthful assessments of a complex health plan. Truth has to come from somewhere else — from a reliable, objective, trustworthy source.
Gannett, AP Refuse to Sign New Sports Credential Policy:
“The credential restrictions would be untenable,” said Mark Silverman, editor of the Tennessean, which covers the SEC’s University of Tennessee and Vanderbilt University. “They fail to recognize that we are not just a newspaper. We use a variety of mediums and I believe we are going to be able to make a prior restraint argument.”
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Journalists’ recent work examined before embeds | Stars and Stripes:
As more journalists seek permission to accompany U.S. forces engaged in escalating military operations in Afghanistan, many of them could be screened by a controversial Washington-based public relations firm contracted by the Pentagon to determine whether their past coverage has portrayed the U.S. military in a positive light.
Momenta Multimedia and Documentary Photo Workshops:
Momenta Workshops brings you a whole new crop of programs for 2009. We’ve added new instructors in brand new locations along with low-cost skills workshops.
We’re also expanding our line of intensive weekend workshops. This hasn’t changed our commitment to teaching quality documentary photography within practical, real world learning environments. We invite you to explore our site and learn more about the places we go and programs we teach.
At War: Notes From the Front Lines – At War Blog – NYTimes.com:
Today, we introduce you to a new blog about America at war. This generation’s conflict, which began on 9/11, is nearly eight years old. Yet there are no signs that it will end anytime soon, with the Obama administration sending thousands more troops into Afghanistan and Iraq facing enormous military and political challenges as American troops withdraw. So “At War” — an expansion of our Baghdad Bureau blog — is a recognition that war is now, and will be, a defining experience for Americans. One of our contributors, Dexter Filkins, captured that in the title of his book about 9/11, Afghanistan and Iraq: “The Forever War.”
Our aim is less commentary than boots-on-the-ground reporting, photography, audio and video. Despite financial constraints that have limited foreign coverage by many news outlets, Times reporters still go to places that matter. This year our team in Afghanistan and Pakistan won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting
4 part video series, Seamus Murphy and Gary Knight
dispatches / A Conversation: On Russia – Part 1
dispatches / A Conversation: On Russia – Part 2
dispatches / A Conversation: On Russia – Part 3
dispatches / A Conversation: On Russia – Part 4
In the Bronx, Capturing Beauty in the Bad Old Days of 1979 – NYTimes.com:
Thirty years ago this summer, I returned to the South Bronx, where I grew up, with a Yale diploma in one hand and a beat-up Pentax camera in the other. Raised to get a good education, become a doctor and escape, I had instead come right back to teach photography — on Charlotte Street, no less, the world’s most famous slum.
Faked Photographs – Look, and Then Look Again – NYTimes.com:
It didn’t take long for schemers to discover that with a little skill and imagination, photographic realism could be used to create manufactured realities.
14 Years After War’s End, Ethnic Divisions Once Again Gripping Bosnia – washingtonpost.com:
the international campaign to transform Bosnia into a pluralistic democracy is still limping along with no end in sight. The struggle serves as a cautionary example for U.S.-led efforts to rebuild much larger nations hamstrung by ethnic and religious factions, such as Iraq and Afghanistan.
Markus Klinko and Indrani File for Bankruptcy:
The duo, who were formerly a romantic couple and remain business partners, have photographed such A-listers as Will Smith and Beyoncé and shot work for major clients including Nike and Vogue. The photographers are scheduled to star in an upcoming reality show on the Bravo network called “Double Exposure.”
Do we ever go back? | uncommons:
Routine is something photojournalists do not have often. Assignments change daily, as do the locations we work in and the people we meet. I’m working an early morning spot news rotation, but two days last week I joined an overnight police ride-along. Hours that normally start at 6:30 am ended again at 6:30 the following morning. It’s exciting, if not tiring; yet always rewarding. We’re adapted to constant change, and that change often is the fuel that keeps us moving.
Wild Horses Couldn’t Drag Me Away » THE WILD WEIRD WORLD OF SPORTS:
I remember sitting on a chair, trying to clear my head and thinking: “It’s a Friday night and I’m in Oklahoma at a prison rodeo. And I just got hit by a horse. WHAT?”
Yeah. Hit by a horse.
In South Korea, Freed U.S. Journalists Come Under Harsh Criticism – NYTimes.com:
The accusations stem from a central fear repeated in newspapers and blogs here: that the notes and videotapes the journalists gathered in China before their ill-fated venture to the border fell into the hands of the authorities, potentially compromising the identities of refugees and activists dedicated to spiriting people out of the North.
How to get your D3X to play space invaders: | duckrabbit – we produce beautifully crafted multimedia:
It’s quite ridiculous really, but hidden away deep in the bowels of the Nikon firmware is none other than a version of the arcade classic Space Invaders
Photojournalism Legend Angus W. “Mac” McDougall, 92:
McDougall set standards of excellence in photography, photography editing, and photojournalism education. As a Milwaukee Journal photographer, he was an innovator in the use of high-speed strobe technology and in using multiple pictures to tell stories. He tested his theories of visual communication and formed many of his principles of picture editing as associate editor of International Harvester World, a Chicago-based corporate magazine.
Help photographers in need | dvafoto:
Seven days after asking for donations for vital medical care for his wife, St. Petersburg Times photojournalist Stephen Coddington has raised nearly US$8,000, but he still needs help. On April 1, 2008, Stephen’s wife Marian suffered a brain aneurysm. What followed was 6 months of intensive hospital care, care at one of the best rehabilitation centers in the US, and then what has become a year-long struggle against the CIGNA health insurance company. Steve has become his wife’s sole caregiver, the insurance company having denied crucial in-home nursing care and other necessary treatment; they have decided that Marian hasn’t made sufficient progress in her recovery to justify further expenditure. This is a travesty. Now, Steve is asking for help from his community and the larger worldwide community of photographers in his family’s hour of need, all trying to care for his two children and retain his newspaper job. Help Save Steve’s Family.
Photojournalist Enters ‘Surreal’ North Korea in Ruse – TIME:
In 2007 and 2008, photojournalist Tomas Van Houtryve visited North Korea by infiltrating a communist solidarity delegation. In the first of a three-part TIME.com series, he reports on the elaborate ruse that is required to enter the world’s most isolated country.