This column will ask which came first, the chicken or the egg.

I was directing four days of high-definition television broadcasts at the National Association of Broadcasters annual show in Las Vegas last spring when I suddenly encountered more Lebanese nationals than I had ever met before.

"Authorship, authorship, authorship" was the mantra set forth by David Alan Harvey on day one of what was about to be an incredible week of photography.

A criticism of Canon digital SLRs for a long time, and in fact DSLRs from a number of manufacturers, is the lack of a permanent place on the top LCD, and more importantly in the viewfinder, to display the active ISO speed.

I'm told that Paul Strand printed on platinum for as long as possible, holding out against silver and even having the folks who were producing his paper double-coat it so it was more platinum than most platinum.

What if the day came when hometown papers and TV stations could no longer shoot professional sports in their own town?

At this writing, Josh Wolf is sitting in a federal prison in Dublin, California.

Why is it that whenever you're looking for a Phillips-head screwdriver the only things that you can find in the kitchen drawer are flat-head screwdrivers?

Welcome to the October 2006 issue of The Digital Journalist, the monthly online magazine for visual journalism.

Can anyone answer that question? I doubt it. This debate has been going on for a long, long time and I have yet to hear an answer that will satisfy all of us.

The pretty reporter slumped into the seat next to mine and seemingly to no one stated, "A broadcast journalist without a camera, only a cell phone." The she held up the little camera phone and muttered, "Not even a zoom."

In last month's edition of The Digital Journalist, editor and publisher Dirck Halstead noted that photojournalism professors at several major universities had made the online magazine required reading in their classes.

Sharing a common belief in the power of photography to draw attention to social issues, Hewlett-Packard and CARE are teaming together in a joint global program that has sent teams of photographers to capture the essence of CARE's "I Am Powerful" campaign.

Via Digital Railroad