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If you’re working at a newspaper around the Thanksgiving holidays then it’s a guarantee that at some point you’ll be sent out to cover Black Friday, the annual post T-day holiday marked by long lines, shivering toes and AP video of grandmas being trampled in the aisles of some big box store as they mad...
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It’s the holiday weekend and that can only mean one thing, it’s time to get Out of Town (ok, two if you’re working at a paper: that you’re working at a paper). While Out of Town is not affiliated with any newspaper, that doesn’t stop this web series from delivering short and sweet feature-y community...
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The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and The Palm Beach Post got together to create a very in depth exploration of an HIV/AIDS epidemic in our backyard, or should I say playground. The Caribbean islands, a popular American vacation destination, has the highest rate of infection in the western hemisphere, with rates rivaling that of...
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It looks like Laurie Skrivan of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch decided to try something different in painting a picture of the changing season in her corner of Missouri. Experience the colors, sounds and feelings of fall in this esoteric look at the season. Marked by football, rain, the falling of the leaves, corn mazes and...
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It was just another of those men in pressed suits giving speeches about how great they are things, but for the veterans that came out to hear them I could see it meant a lot. Fred was very interesting. At first he didn’t notice me, when he did he tried to force a smile and...
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The annual contest marking the best work coming out of college photographers announced their picks for 2008. A lot of familiar names on there and a few really gripping images to. Although some of the images left me scratching my head, I won’t name names but how it is in one breath we denounce overdoing...
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I don’t write about technology often, I know, this coming from the guy that posts about video-hosting websites, new cameras, RAW processing and Microsoft’s table computer thing, but honest I don’t do it often, check! Anywho I was looking at the Natchway speech from the TED awards again, and I saw this other video on...
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Welcome back to Time out Tuesdays, a continuing effort to share the stories that resonate with me and to keep myself constantly spelunking for the very best in photojournalism week after week. Every week, I’ll post up a new photo story, video, picture or multimedia piece that I think gets it right and is worth...