A really nice column by my friend Regina McCombs: Meaning in Motion: Ken Burns and His “Effect.”
Burns believes the photograph is still the core of visual storytelling, that “the still image is still the essential building block, the DNA, at least photographically speaking, of visual creation.” From that foundation emerge three concepts to consider when [...]

Part 1 was the deletion of a very successful Flickr member’s photo, a subsequent apology from Flickr management, and a discussion about copyright and disputed naïveté. (The member is Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir, whose commercial success via Flickr was recently the subject of a fascinating post at the photo-flash blog Strobist. Photocritic posted a great how-to about [...]

From a fascinating post on the popular (and excellent) flash photography blog, Strobist:
While Guðleifsdóttir’s experience is certainly the most famous Cinderella Story of the Flickr world to date, it is by no means unique. The explosion of digital photography — and legions of talented new photographers — is combining with the leveled playing field of [...]

Among sites with more than 2 million page views per month:

Being A Black Man (washingtonpost.com) Excellent, humongous. Probably the biggest Web package ever made. But of immense journalistic value. I’m not complaining.
The Lifeline (latimes.com)
A Sister’s Gift (Rocky Mountain News) Well done, but long.
(HM) The Vanishing Class (latimes.com) Too many pieces and too disconnected for me [...]

I laughed when I saw this, but it also made me want to go out and try it myself.

See the post about how this was done with a point-and-shoot (still) camera and a $58 toy plane at The Long Tail blog.
Found via Online News Squared.
Technorati tags: photojournalism | photojournalists | multimedia | video | online [...]

Just found this — a really nice collection of stories from Will Yurman of The Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle, from October 2006:
My Body Myself
First, the subject matter is stuff women think about all the time, starting at an early age. The audio interviews are great, well edited, and just so personal … wonderful.
Second, the [...]

Rob Finch “made the transition recently from being a bad-ass photojournalist to [becoming] the first at his paper to embrace video and figure things out as far as the direction he’d like to see it go,” writes Melissa Lyttle, who is a bad-ass photojournalist herself — and the driving power behind A Photo a Day. [...]