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Welcome

Welcome to the November issue of The Digital Journalist. (read more)

Personal Walled Gardens

In Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden, Archibald Craven sealed up his wife's walled garden after her death and hid away the key. (read more)

A REAL TV Cameraman Goes to the Platypus and Enters THE MATRIX

As a television photog, you are always looking for the next big story. What spot news event can I leave my mark on today? we continually ask ourselves. Always being on edge trying to capture the right moment in time with little, if any, regard of the story, we sometimes more often than not miss the real stories. The new Digital Journalist already knows how to do this with still photos, but now they are learning and achieving this with great video accuracy. Just as they are completing and grasping these skills, the way they view and cover the news of the day is beginning to reshape the newspapers of tomorrow and, soon, our very own online viewing habits. (read more)

Leading Photojournalism Educator Killed in Nepal

It is with immense sadness that we report the sudden death of Professor Yang Xiaoguang, Dean of Dalian College of Image Art and founder of the Photo MA program. Yang was killed in a car crash in the Himalayan foothills of Nepal on Oct. 7. Yang died in the way he lived, enjoying life to the fullest. (read more)

Tech Tips

A local photographer here in California suggested I contact you to see if you could offer some advice. (read more)

Bucking the Trend

I know a young photojournalist in Brooklyn named Joshua Wolfe who devotes his time and craft to making pictures of climate change. Wolfe is also an entrepreneur, a young man with big ideas. (read more)

Nuts and Bolts

I provide my clients with finished products in which I typically wear all of the creative and editorial hats videographer, producer, director, editor, etc. I start by figuring out how much I need to charge hourly, based upon my cost of doing business and how much I want to pull out as profit. I use this number only for internal purposes and I never release it to the client. I do not want my clients to think of what I do as an hourly commodity. (read more)

And Do You Promise

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The Canon 5D Mark II

The camera that so many, especially Platypai, have been waiting so long for will finally hit stores in December. (read more)

Nuts Bolts: Hooray for the Snapshot

All the good professional photographers that I know spend a lot of time shooting amateur photographs well, at least photographs they don't get paid for. (read more)

How I Learned to Read

As more newspapers collapse, shrink and disappear, I thought I would take a few minutes of your time and regale you with a tale about newspapers, and how I learned to read them when I was a boy. It is the reason why reading a newspaper in its printed form on paper is still important to me. This is not about the failing economics of the news business as it relates to the printed word, a story that gets worse by the day. It is a personal story about my father, something of the life he had, the newspapers he read every day and the effect that had on me. (read more)

Introduction: 25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers

Milan Kundera, in his most recent book, The Curtain, a seven-part essay about the history and art of the novel, talks about a novel's passion for the mystery of the present moment, for the richness contained in a single second of life, and reminds us of the existential scandal of insignificance. These three phrases seem to sum up most photographers' concerns as well. (read more)

Mandela's Children

I remember when I first heard of Nelson Mandela. Not coincidentally, it was also my first exposure to the word apartheid. I was a teenager at home in Fort Wayne, Indiana. (read more)

25 Under 25: Up-and Coming American Photographers

Making photographs is and isn't child's play. For many of the young photographers in this book, the camera became part of their lives at an early age, and in years they are not far removed from their own childhoods. (read more)

25/25 Photographers Quotes and Bios

25/25 Photographers Quotes and Bios (read more)

E-Bits: Beyond the Comfort Zone

One of the defining characteristics of photojournalists is a relentless willingness to step outside of their comfort zones. There's nothing so consciousness-raising as being in totally unfamiliar territory and forced to come to terms with it. (read more)

Dispatches

China, Paul Taggart investigates the circumstances of Georgian refugees from the 1990 Georgian-Abkhaz war and Max Whittaker meets residents of a tent city for the homeless in the heart of a gambling center-Reno. As a whole, all these stories show the many different faces and hopes of internal refugees (words never used in the States). (read more)

Revisiting Sichuan

The earthquake sites were rebuilding rapidly and people who were affected by it were struggling to go on with their lives. (read more)

Reno's Tent City

Really? A tent city in downtown Reno? (read more)

Back in Georgia

Each family had its own unique story of terror and desperation but each family also told a story of how even in the throws of confusion people make life work (read more)