Friday, March 2
Newsgirls coming through the alley. The smallest girl has been selling for 2 years. Hartford, Connecticut, 1909
It’s a fine life, carrying the banner through it all!
A mighty fine life, carrying the banner tough and tall!
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My brother has informed me that Alex Wong will be in Newsies on Broadway. YES. Also, I will be kicking myself for a while for not hearing about that audition until the day after it happened.
Friday, February 3
Winter weather around the northern hemisphere
A woman walks through the Cimetiere des Rois in Geneva, SwitzerlandPhotograph: Salvatore Di Nolfi/AP
Temperatures have plunged in parts of Europe and further east. Among the hardest hit countries is Ukraine, where as many as 30 people have died on snow-covered streets, in hospitals and in their own homes in the past four days. Parts of France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Turkey have all seen heavy snowfalls
It’s kind of screwed up (read: insensitive) that the main graf is about how 30 people have died because of the cold weather and the next link is about “looking good while freezing”.
On a very different note, I really love the photograph.
Transit: A Photojournalist’s Quest to Tell the Stories of People on the Run
Espen Rasmussen, an Oslo-based photographer, has spent seven years documenting displaced people around the world for his Transit project, a multimedia work that includes photography, video, a website, and an exhibition at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo. The videos blend Rasmussen’s photographs and interviews, edited together by Anna Stevens at Panos Pictures, to tell the personal stories of people coping in the wake of devastating events. In this segment, he interviews women in a refugee camp in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where 1.9 million people have been displaced. The photographer reflects on the ongoing project in an interview with the Atlantic Video channel.
(via theatlantic)
Monday, January 9
19 free ebooks on journalism (for your Xmas Kindle)
Via Online Journalism Blog
I wish Tumblr had been as big when I was taking my Online Journalism course. There would have been so much good content to discuss.
(Source: futurejournalismproject)
Monday, January 2
We’ve seen a lot of 365 projects, but David Talley’s really took it to the next level, well done.
Love this.
Friday, September 30
100 Interviews: 100 Interviews 1-Year Project: Completed
[Audio doesn’t match my mouth. C’est la vie.]
When I finished interviewing 100 people in a year, I wanted to write some kind of glorious wrap-up.
I thought maybe it could rival the Gettysburg Address in brevity and poignancy, or prove once and for all that journalism isn’t dead. It…
Gaby Dunn, you’re amazing.
Journalism isn’t dead and you are an inspiration for young journalists who care about giving their story depth, understanding, and compassion.
Monday, September 19
A Unique Paywall Plan in Boston
Paid and free, side by side: The Boston Globe became the latest news organization to institute an online paywall this week, but it did so in an unprecedented way that should be interesting to watch: The newspaper created a separate paid site,BostonGlobe.com, to run alongside its existing free site, Boston.com. PaidContent has the pertinent details: A single price ($3.99 a week), and Boston.com gets most of the breaking news and sports, while BostonGlobe.com gets most of the newspaper content.
As the Globe told Poynter’s Jeff Sonderman, the two sites were designed with two different types of readers in mind: One who has a deep appreciation for in-depth journalism and likes to read stories start-to-finish, and another who reads news casually and briefly and may be more concerned about entertainment or basic information than journalism per se.
The first thing that caught many people’s attention was new site’s design — simple, clean, and understated. Tech blogger John Gruber gave it a thumbs-up, and news design guru Mario Garcia called it ”probably the most significant new website design in a long time.” The Lab’s Joshua Benton identified the biggest reasons it looks so clean: Far fewer links and ads.
Benton (in the most comprehensive post on the new site) also emphasized a less noticeable but equally important aspect of BostonGlobe.com’s design: It adjusts to fit just about any browser size, which reduces the need for mobile apps, making life easier for programmers and, as j-prof Dan Kennedy noted at the Lab, a way around the cut of app fees required by Apple and others. If the Globe’s people “have figured out a way not to share their hard-earned revenues with gatekeepers such as Apple and Amazon, then they will have truly performed a service for the news business — and for journalism,” Kennedy said.
Of course, the Globe could launch the most brilliantly conceived news site on the web, but it won’t be a success unless enough people pay for it. Poynter’sSonderman (like Kennedy) was skeptical of their ability to do that, though as the Atlantic’s Rebecca Rosen pointed out, the Globe’s plan may be aimed as much at retaining print subscribers as making money off the web. The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple wondered if readers will find enough at BostonGlobe.com that’s not at Boston.com to make the site worth their money.
Via Nieman Lab
Wait. Stop it.
The Boston Globe used to be one of the most cluttered and user-unfriendly newspaper websites, but it was beautifully and gloriously free. Now, for a price, it’s easy to read and squeaky clean. This makes me miss Emerson College because my journalism classes would be having really interesting debates about this change.
(via futurejournalismproject)
Thursday, September 15
Chart of the Day: The amount that students owe quintupled between 2000 and 2011. For more, check out our MoJo College Guide.
Oh, wow. This is terrifying.
(via npr)
Monday, September 12
Photographers: Know Your Rights (ACLU)
The ACLU’s published a photographer’s cheat sheet on their rights when shooting in the field (US only):
- When in public spaces where you are lawfully present you have the right to photograph anything that is in plain view.
- When you are on private property, the property owner may set rules about the taking of photographs.
- Police officers may not generally confiscate or demand to view your photographs or video without a warrant.
- Police may not delete your photographs or video under any circumstances.
- Police officers may legitimately order citizens to cease activities that are truly interfering with legitimate law enforcement operations.
- Note that the right to photograph does not give you a right to break any other laws.
Click through for explanations of each, advice on what to do if stopped or detained, exceptions for shooting around airports and special considerations for videography (eg., “With regards to videotaping, there is an important legal distinction between a visual photographic record (fully protected) and the audio portion of a videotape, which some states have tried to regulate under state wiretapping laws.”)
Truth.
(Source: futurejournalismproject, via latimes)
Wednesday, September 7
A directory of news organizations on Tumblr.
Excuse if incomplete — drop a link or tell me what’s what.
Update: Some new info right here. And please follow the blog to get corrections and additions! I’m not planning on building any notifications into that table.
Philly represent!
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