It wasn’t easy and for a moment it appeared that UPS was going to tag them as undeliverable– long story but basically my NYC apartment building has a broken doorbell to my apartment, so I had to stand outside between 10am and…
The Super Bowl of Journalism: A #SOTU Round Up
You could say that the president’s State of the Union address each year is like the Super Bowl of web journalism. If you won’t say it, I will. It’s a single manageable time of immense importance and scrutiny and every news org is experimenting to take…
Multimedia that made me go f’yea! in 2011
It’s the end of the year and that usually means two things, left overs and best of lists. This year saw a lot of newsworthy events from the Arab Spring to OWS, Obama got Osama to Rick Perry trying to remember…
Six ways to get more followers on Twitter
Personal branding and social media seems to be all the rage in our self-indulgent, opinionated, fly-by-the-seat modern lives.
It’s the new self proclaimed SEO guru and just from my own experience searching LinkedIn, there’s been a 50% increase in users…
Time out Tuesday: Lynda serves up FREE! training
To tie in to the launch of the new version of Apple’s Final Cut Pro, Lynda.com has decided to offer up some free training. No doubt to get upgraders quickly up to speed with all...
What is truth?
As journalist, our stories go into the paper and inform the public today, but in time it becomes history and if that history is built on lies, then we become a nation of lies.
But how do we define truth…
The original sports shooter
SJSU NPPA presents Brad Mangin.
Click the poster (designed by you’re truly) for the details. See you there!
I will gladly speak today so that I may complain next Tuesday
Today is an important day… no, relax this isn‘t another column on why you should vote… ok so today is an important day, today is your chance to voice your opinion and have a say in how things work, are…
Old skooler, Ceppos speaks of the future of media
Former Executive Editor of the San Jose Mercury News, Jerry Ceppos spoke to San Jose State University students in a talk entitled “The future of mass media in a changing economic and technological environment,” a discussion about the future of…
Eternal insight of the judges minds
The SportsShooter 2005 student photographer of the year was chosen recently.
And the best part is, you get to hear the editors — Deanne Fitzmaurice, Kim Komenich, John Lee, Michael Macor, Jim Merithew, and Russell...
Ethics of Photojournalism in the pre-digital age
Photographic manipulation and the questions of ethics aren’t a recent creation of the Photoshop era. As the Museum of Hoaxes shows us it’s as old as photography.
In the above picture: In 1925, as the story goes, New York…
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