I’ve notice that my students’ eyes tend to glaze over the moment I mention the words “copyright” and “fair use” in a journalism class. So for the past two semesters I have made good use of the current legal battle between the artist Shepard Fairey and the Associated Press. The dispute centers on the use [...]
Today, I stumbled upon a worthwhile interview with Brian Storm, the president of MediaStorm, in Nieman Reports. MediaStorm creates multimedia documentaries for news organizations like National Geographic, MSNBC, Slate and Reuters. They take on serious social issues like the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, families facing economic hardship in the rural Midwest, and [...]
This past semester, I integrated the NYTimes.com multimedia series One in 8 Million: New York Characters in Sound and Images into the regular routine of my Online Journalism II course. When we started the semester, most of the students had limited experience recording and editing audio. Most had not taken a photojournalism course. And it [...]
Recently, I’ve encountered some convincing arguments that we may need an entirely new language for understanding and practicing journalism. A friend recommended I read a book called The Little Book of Contemplative Photography by Howard Zehr, a professor and documentary photographer who contends that the words and metaphors of photography – “taking a picture,” “shooting,” [...]
After running an article about an effort to revive instant film cameras, NYTimes.com asked readers to submit their own Polaroids. The Times received 932 submissions before its deadline and posted 406 of them on the Lens photography blog. They even received a Polaroid of Walker Evans by Bruce Jackson. The Times chose to display the [...]
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