Category: Photojournalism
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Photo Staff Firings Won’t Shake Pulitzer Winner’s Focus
Photo Staff Firings Won’t Shake Pulitzer Winner’s Focus The Chicago Sun-Times made a surprise announcement last week: It fired its entire photography staff. Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist John H. White spent decades working there. He shares what this news means for him personally and for the future of via NPR.org: http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2013/06/07/189533880/photo-staff-firings-wont-shake-pulitzer-winners-focus?ft=1&f=97635953 Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist John H.…
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Stephen Colbert: Sun-Times reporters will learn ‘photography basics — like pressing the button’
Link: Stephen Colbert: Sun-Times reporters will learn ‘photography basics — like pressing the button’ | Poynter. But the paper will continue to have great photojournalism, because reporters are now required to learn iPhone photography basics. But only the basics, like pressing the button. If the Sun-Times is still around in a week, the reporters can…
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Save the Chicago Sun-Times Photographers rally set for Thursday morning
Link: » Save the Chicago Sun-Times Photographers rally set for Thursday morning JIMROMENESKO.COM The company’s move of letting go over two dozen photographers may be looked at as a cost saving to them, but more importantly, it weakens the freedom of the press and the positive and powerful impact it has had on our country
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Scenes from Istanbul: What it’s like to photograph Turkey’s protests
Scenes from Istanbul: What it’s like to photograph Turkey’s protests Emine Gozde Sevim on what it’s like to be a photojournalist covering protests in her hometown. via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/06/03/scenes-from-istanbul-what-its-like-to-photograph-turkeys-protests/?wprss=rss_world Everyone knows someone who got hurt. Everyone who’s there has suffered from the tear gas.
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The photo that encapsulates Turkey’s protests and the severe police crackdown
The photo that encapsulates Turkey’s protests and the severe police crackdown Why did the police need so many armored men to pepper spray a young woman in the face? via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/06/03/the-photo-that-encapsulates-turkeys-protests-and-the-severe-police-crackdown/?wprss=rss_world In a bit of final, dark irony, the photographer who took this photo, Osman Orsal, was himself injured by the police crackdown.…
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Visa pour l’Image: Jean-François Leroy on the festival’s editorial line and the cost of covering war (1/2)
Link: Visa pour l’Image: Jean-François Leroy on the festival’s editorial line and the cost of covering war (1/2) – British Journal of Photography Ahead of the festival’s 25th anniversary, Visa pour l’Image’s director Jean-François Leroy speaks with Lucas Menget and Olivier Laurent about his editorial line, which has, at times, been criticised; and addresses the…
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John White on Sun-Times layoffs: ‘It was as if they pushed a button and deleted a whole culture’
Link: John White on Sun-Times layoffs: ‘It was as if they pushed a button and deleted a whole culture’ | Poynter. “Humanity is being robbed,” he said, “by people with money on their minds.”
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The Idiocy of Eliminating a Photo Staff
Link: The Idiocy of Eliminating a Photo Staff – Assignment Chicago The reason why this is bad management and not smart Machiavellian management is because although you’ve saved your bottom line, you’ve exposed your naked disregard for your customers.
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Fake Sun-Times iReporter ad: Journalism experience will disqualify you for this job
Link: » Fake Sun-Times iReporter ad: Journalism experience will disqualify you for this job JIMROMENESKO.COM Applications will be reviewed in the order they are submitted; with the exception of applicants who have “vertical video” skills, which will be given priority.
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Are you just the photographer?
Link: Are you just the photographer? – Shooting from the Hip I am not naïve. This is not new in the newspaper industry. However, what was shocking was the wiping out of an entire staff in one fell swoop. Doubly shocking was that one of those fired was John H. White, perhaps, the greatest newspaper…
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A Sad Shot of Sun-Times Photojournalists Learning They’d Been Laid Off
A Sad Shot of Sun-Times Photojournalists Learning They'd Been Laid Off A photojournalist is a photojournalist, even in times when he maybe shouldn't be. Which is why when Chicago Sun-Times photographer Al Podgorski discovered this morning that his entire department was being wiped out, the first thing he did was reach fo via Gawker: http://gawker.com/a-sad-shot-of-sun-times-photojournalists-learning-they-510565175…
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Chicago Sun-Times Wipes Out Photo Staff
Chicago Sun-Times Wipes Out Photo Staff The Chicago Sun-Times and its suburban sister newspapers today laid off its entire photography staff, and the management plans to use freelance photographers instead, the newspaper’s editor said. via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/chicago-sun-times-wipes-out-photo-staff “It’s shocking that the remnants of the group that once had photographers like Scott Strazzante and Todd Heisler…
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Chicago Sun-Times lays off its photo staff
Link: chicago sun times: Chicago Sun-Times lays off its photo staff – chicagotribune.com The Chicago Sun-Times has laid off its entire photography staff, and plans to use freelance photographers going forward, the newspaper said.
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Report: Sun-Times lays off entire photo staff
Link: » Report: Sun-Times lays off entire photo staff JIMROMENESKO.COM
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Emphas.is Seeks to Expand
Who Will Crowdfund the Crowdfunder? The online fund-raising platform Emphas.is, which has helped dozens of photographers finance their in-depth photojournalism projects, is turning to crowdfunding for itself. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/30/a-crowd-fundraiser-for-crowd-funding/ The crowdfunding platform Emphas.is has helped 60 photographers finance their personal projects and books over the past two years. Now, it is trying to…
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The Walmart of Photography makes $120,000/week selling old newspaper photos on eBay
Link: The Walmart of Photography makes $120,000/week selling old newspaper photos on eBay | dvafoto I knew that newspapers have been selling off their photo archives, and had heard about the Arkansas-based John Rogers Photo Archive buying up many major newspapers’ photos. But I didn’t know what Rogers was doing with the photos. He started…
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Stephen Mayes resigns from agence VII
Link: Stephen Mayes resigns from agence VII | Le Journal de la Photographie 3 weeks before his last day at VII, Stephen is conscious that the agency needs new energy and he needs a new landscape. He admits being emotionally exhausted after 5 years of a challenging business and human experience. He says if he…
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Moments of Hope in Oklahoma: One Photographer’s Story
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/05/21/moments-of-hope-in-oklahoma-one-photographers-story/#1 On Tuesday, the world awoke to the photographs of Sue Ogrocki. Based in Oklahoma City as a staff photographer for the Associated Press, Ogrocki’s images of rescue workers carrying injured children from the rubble of Plaza Towers Elementary School appeared on…
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AP photographer: ‘For a moment, there was hope in the devastation’
Link: AP photographer: ‘For a moment, there was hope in the devastation’ | Poynter.
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Looking at Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother
Looking at Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother via Conscientious Photography Magazine: http://cphmag.com/migrant-mother/ But obviously given we are not dealing with a candid photograph, the subjects were fully aware of the presence of the photographer. In fact, the photographer made them pose – this claim might not convince some people, yet, but once we’ve seen all the…