Well, the first couple of weeks of teaching classes this fall have been interesting. I’m teaching a new course this semester, the role of images in mediating reality, for honors students. The course introduces them to visual literacy and teaches them that visuals influence their perception of reality and their behavior. Needless to say I’m [...]
I just arrived home from this weekend’s National Press Photographers Association Women in Photojournalism conference in Austin, Texas. Needless to say it was a fantastic experience and the theme from this summer’s NPPA Summit was carried through to this conference - multimedia is the future but excellent storytelling is still key.
I was very impressed and [...]
Last reminder, the National Press Photographers Association Women in Photojournalism conference and workshops in Austin, Texas, is today through Sunday (August 17-19) at the Hyatt Regency Austin. Tonight (August 17) is the ice-breaker, the conference starts in earnest tomorrow morning (August 18). You can still register at the door. This conference is not just [...]
Just a reminder, the National Press Photographers Association Women in Photojournalism conference and workshops in Austin, Texas, is from August 17-19 at the Hyatt Regency Austin. Today (August 10) is the last day you can register online. This conference is not just for “women only,” anyone can attend. There will be several multimedia sessions on [...]
From an earlier post:
The dates for Cutting Edge IX have been released. And while this is geared toward television news, it could be a great opportunity for multimedia producers to learn advanced editing techniques. News announcement from the NPPA:
DURHAM, NC (July 14, 2007) – Shawn Montano, director of the Cutting Edge IX: Order of the [...]
Coming up real fast is the National Press Photographers Association Women in Photojournalism conference and workshops in Austin, Texas, from August 17-19 at the Hyatt Regency Austin. This conference is not just for “women only,” anyone can attend. There will be several multimedia sessions on audio slide shows and video. Our brethren from the television [...]
The NPPA has the beginning pages up for this year’s Flying Short Course. The first stop is in Washington D.C. on October 26-27 at the Frank E. Gannett Auditorium on the campus of USA Today. Stop two is in Chicago, IL, October 27 & 28 (location TBD), and stop three is in San Jose, CA, [...]
The dates for Cutting Edge IX have been released. And while this is geared toward television news, it could be a great opportunity for multimedia producers to learn advanced editing techniques. News announcement from the NPPA:
DURHAM, NC (July 14, 2007) – Shawn Montano, director of the Cutting Edge IX: Order of the Edit workshop, announced [...]
From the NPPA:
DURHAM, NC (June 12, 2007) Russ Kendall, director of NPPA’s Region 11 who is a photography editor at the Bellingham Herald in Bellingham, WA, has been appointed chairman of the annual NPPA Photojournalism Summit. The announcement was made this week by NPPA president Tony Overman. “Russ was highly involved in the planning and [...]
From Richard Koci Hernandez at multimediashooter.com:
File under buzzed. Too much caffeine + poor grammar + incomplete thoughts + my opinions = buzzed.
I have been a member of NPPA my entire career. When I started going to events sponsored by the NPPA, they were doing it right. The right speakers, relevant topics, eight projector eye [...]
From the NPPA:
The future of online photojournalism and how it is published on the Web will be determined by what happens with the next version of the Internet and revenue, the managing editor for multimedia for Washingtonpost.com and Newsweek Interactive said during an NPPA panel discussion about the Future Of Multimedia Photojournalism. The panel discussion [...]
The “Multimedia Evangelist” is dedicated to promoting multimedia education and a multimedia mindset to the field of photojournalism. As a photojournalist for 24 years and now as a university educator, I “saw the light” in Portland, Oregon, in 2007 at the National Press Photographers Association Summit. What happened in Portland in June of this year [...]
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