The Digital Journalist September 2007 Issue Contents

Dispatches: Notes from the Field
This month we present three dispatches: Dai Kurokawa reporting on the Thailand-Burma border. Shapiro visited Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. In Afghanistan, David Bathgate observes heroin addiction and sees firsthand one of the country's very few treatment centers.

by Marianne Fulton

E-Bits: Back to Basics
After slipping deep into the memory hole last month about my first impressions and experiences in photography, there is no more time to linger or wax poetic about the past.

by Beverly Spicer

EDITORIAL

Celebrating 10 Years of The Digital Journalist

For print publications 10 years is a real accomplishment. For an online magazine it is nothing short of amazing.

COMMENTARY

Tell Me a Story

During the 1980s, if you wanted to turn my brother from the even-tempered, easygoing individual that he normally was into a rage-consumed animal, all you had to do was to mention the two words "Margaret Thatcher" within his hearing and that would do it.

by Peter Howe

ETHICS

Ethics: No Good Reason to Duck and Cover

The story was repeated in the mainstream media and widely across the Internet.

by Karen Slattery and Mark Doremus

PHOTO JOURNALISM

Tech Tips

From time to time, I see an "ERR 99" on the LCD data panel of my EOS Digital SLR. What does it mean?

by Chuck Westfall

Nuts and Bolts

The constant quest, the impossible dream – the little bag that in spite of its small size holds a huge amount of equipment...

by Bill Pierce

Common Cents: Momentum

Momentum. It's what keeps your business going. Momentum is what builds up between assignments.

by Mark Loundy

Compression Session

I received the Complete Training for Episode and EpisodePro DVD and promptly spent almost 4 non-planned hours mesmerized by their content and easy-to-follow instructions.

by PF Bentley

LIFE STYLE

Reel Love

"I have trouble - of the worst kind." I was standing in a restaurant bathroom whispering into my cell phone.

by Francene Cucinello

A Letter From New Orleans

The golden sunlight of a summer afternoon warmly caressed the lush, verdant expanses of a typically Southern, rural antebellum scene.

by Jim Gabour

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Letter from the Publisher

Welcome to the September 2007 issue of The Digital Journalist, the monthly online magazine for visual journalism.

by Ron Steinman

BREAKING NEWS

The Bizarre Story of Joe O'Donnell

He was selling some of the most famous pictures in photojournalism history at a gallery in Nashville. The problem was, he didn't take any of them.

An Exclusive Report by Marianne Fulton

BLOG

Beverly Spicer Blogs Visa Pour L'Image

CAMERA CORNER

Leica M8

It has now been almost a year since the release of the landmark Leica M8 digital rangefinder camera, a year fraught with setbacks and triumphs.

by Roger Richards

The Leica M8 on Assignment

During a recent six-week trip to Iran, I shot exclusively with a Leica M8.

by Bruno Stevens

"Moments in Time" Book Tour 2007

Presentations by Dirck Halstead.

NEW MEDIA

TV News in a Postmodern World: News as a Commodity

In the world of business economics, few words frighten the market leader like "commoditization" or "commodification."

by Terry Heaton

Politics and The New Front Porch

At the end of July, CNN and YouTube got together to put on a TV event they believed would take political debate, and, thus, this current campaign for president, to new heights.

by Ron Steinman

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ASSIGNMENT SHEET

Through a Lens Dimly: Life Before Digital (Continued) (Once Again)

Good Grief! Once I got started recalling the days before digital, more and more recollections began crowding my feeble mind.

by Dick Kraus

A Few Days in the Life

OK I admit it, some days are slower than others and to pass the time I like to check out various web sites like Sports Shooter, Medialine and b-roll.net.

by Mark Neuling

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