Being in D.C. on Sunday, I got a copy of The Washington Post. I didn’t get to read it until Monday, when I was on a plane. I got sucked into a story about football — American football — in, of all places, American Samoa. (Not to be confused with Western Samoa, by the way.)

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Yesterday I got to hear Christina Pino-Marina speak about A Wave of Uncertainty, a video project she shot for washingtonpost.com. She is one of eight documentary videographers on staff at the Post.
Knowing that there would be a handover of power in Cuba one day soon, the Post sent Pino-Marina (who speaks Spanish) to shoot [...]

Layers magazine has an interesting article online about creating an online photography portfolio:
The Making of a Great Photography Website: Three Distinct Approaches
Have a look — it’s refreshing to see sites that veer away from the cookie-cutter approach. Matthew Mahon’s site is wonderful — quirky and very different. It’s too abstract to work for a photographer [...]

I just learned of yet another nifty Google search feature: Timeline view.

The search string I used: blogs journalism view:timeline
By adding “view:timeline,” you get the results in date clusters. (Thanks to Brant Houston for the tip.) The graphic has been edited to fit the space above.

This question is for those of you who are working journalists (in any medium): If you could have four hours of training in anything — your choice — what would it be?
A lot of people contact me about training. Sometimes they don’t know what they want. Sometimes they say, “We want everything.” Usually, this is [...]

I’ve sorted out my reflections on the second Travel Channel Academy, which I attended from July 19 through 22. For me, it was an excellent experience. I wanted to get ideas for how to teach journalism students to shoot and edit video without requiring them to take a full-semester class to do it. I got [...]

Newsdesigner.com’s easy-to-view display of 50 U.S. newspaper front pages from Aug. 2 — the day after the Minneapolis bridge collapsed — provides a great lesson in (1) headline writing, and (2) photo editing. If you teach a newspaper editing course, you could probably get a full hour’s discussion out of this.
I really love the Star [...]