Sony has announced a hard-drive high-definition camcorder, the HDR-SR1 (source: CamcorderInfo.com via unmediated). No tape. No capture. Record directly to disk. In HD. Should be on the market in September for $1,500 U.S. Repeat: $1,500 U.S. Related post: What I learned from the online photojournalists Technorati tags: photojournalism | photojournalists | video | online journalism
In Bloggers: A portrait of the Internet’s new storytellers, the Pew Internet & American Life Project reports that about 57 million American adults read blogs. That is 39 percent of U.S. Internet users. For this study, 7,012 adults were questioned; 4,753 were Internet users. (That’s a nice big sample!) The study, however, really focused on [...]
Cade White has posted his second report about the photographers at the Dallas Morning News: Photojournalists at the Morning News are not being asked to carry and shoot with two cameras on a single assignment. Nor are they being asked to hang up their Mark-IIs for the Z1U. The tool used is the one that’s [...]
Arab and American journalists can learn more about one another via Interchange, hosted by the International Journalists’ Network (IJNet). Topics include misperceptions, stereotypes, religion, ethics and professional standards. Interchange is the outcome of a conference organized by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) in late 2005. The “Bridging the Gap” conference brought together 22 Arab [...]
Joe Burbank is a staff photographer at the Orlando Sentinel in sunny Florida. I met him last week, and his enthusiasm for his work made a strong impression on me. He’s been making a series of multimedia stories that he calls One-Minute Photocasts, which are fun examples of what a photojournalist can do without a [...]
Call me a total nerd, but I get a kick out of checking my blog stats, and one of my favorite things is seeing where my visitors come from. This is a screenshot from Site Meter (a free application for tracking site visits) captured on Wednesday about 9 a.m. East Coast time. I can’t tell [...]
I’m hearing from photo editors that they are a bit surprised nowadays when a fresh new college graduate in photojournalism doesn’t know how to gather and edit audio. For interviews you can either chose to ask questions before or after the event you’re photographing is over. I’ve done both. The majority of the time I [...]