The Digital Journalist March 2009 Issue

March 2009, Issue 137


Dispatches: Notes from the field - Supported by Canon Dispatches: Notes from the Field In Dispatches for March we have Nick Moir's account of covering the deadly Australian wildfires. Bernardo De Niz has sent a dispatch from China about that country's rapidly rising unemployment and its effects on the migrant population from the countryside, and Ilker Gurer writes about the return of exiled Tartars to the Crimea. more>> by Marianne Fulton E-Bits E-Bits: Tiempos Curiosos Time is a curious thing. Sometimes when writing the date and year my first impulse is to put 1997 or 1999. It strikes me immediately as ridiculous and wrong, but 10 years have zipped by so fast the '90s seem like last week. more>> by Beverly Spicer Photo Journalism Lauri Lyons Getty Images recently signed Lauri Lyons as its first black female photographer. Though there are black photojournalists and women photojournalists who work for major photo agencies, Lauri Lyons is the first black female under contract to a major agency. This is an important move and hopefully a harbinger of things to come. more >> by Ron Steinman Tech Tips You are invited to submit questions about photo equipment, imaging technology, or photo industry trends that may have a bearing on your work or interests. more >> by Chuck Westfall Common Cents: CONTENT Back when newspapers were first climbing out of the primordial analog soup, they used to advertise for people with "VDT skills." more >> by Mark Loundy Nuts & Bolts It's about time to update the "bookmarks" column. more >> by Bill Pierce Ethics: Pay For Play A producer for the ABC News program "Good Morning America" reportedly put Caylee Anthony's grandparents up in an expensive hotel in December 2008, about the time that the child's remains were discovered and the search for the missing child turned into a murder investigation. more >> by Karen Slattery and Mark Doremus		Letter from the Publisher Welcome to the March 2009 issue of The Digital Journalist, the monthly online magazine for visual journalism. Commentary The End of Privacy You may wonder how the following column about privacy impacts journalism. If you take too much time thinking about it, you had better start asking yourself questions concerning the profession we are in. more >> by Ron Steinman We're Just Sayin' Jan. 22, 2009 - There is a lot of lip service paid to the idea of the American peaceful turnover of presidential administrations. more >> by David Burnett Blog The Digital Journalist Image Galleries Blog more >> Links Rocky Mountain News Says Goodbye It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to you today. Our time chronicling the life of Denver and Colorado, the nation and the world, is over. more >> rockymountainnews.com Books Announcements *Announcing the New* 2009 Platypus^TM Workshops These workshops are acknowledged as the gold standard of Digital Video training. We teach high definition digital shooting and editing, with an emphasis on story telling. It is unique in the industry. more >> Local Media in a Postmodern World Protecting the Stage** My two brothers and I played in a bluegrass band as teenagers in the early 1960s (that's me on the right with the banjo). more >> by Terry Heaton Assignment Sheet Through a Lens Dimly: Progress A bunch of us old farts were sitting around the diner reminiscing about assignments we had covered in our illustrious pasts. more>> by Dick Kraus A Reporter’s Life: Slow Days Sitting at lunch one day, I asked a colleague, if you could cover any story that ever happened in the world...what one story would it be? more>> by Eileen Douglas