The Digital Journalist May 2009 Issue

May 2009, Issue 139

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Dispatches: Notes from the field - Supported by Canon Dispatches: Notes from the Field In May our dispatches Billy Macrae photographed the G20 riots in London; Texan Lance Rosenfield has been photographing a series on Texas small-town rodeos, and Will Baxter documents Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic. more>> by Marianne Fulton E-Bits E-Bits: Following the World "Follow us on Twitter." Until recently, I had no idea what that meant. more>> by Beverly Spicer Photo Journalism Diving With Wounded Warriors: On location for ABC News in the Virgin Islands Army Major Joe Claburn spiraled through a curtain of silvery bubbles. more >> by Tim Cothren Tech Tips Just a quick note before we begin to say that this month's edition of "Tech Tips" marks the 4th anniversary of the column here on The Digital Journalist. by Chuck Westfall Common Cents: Warm Puppies vs. Success A career is something that should be approached holistically. There is a value proposition of money vs. personal payoffs, such as working for NGOs or non-profits or doing personal projects. more >> by Mark Loundy We're Just Sayin': Closing the Circle I sometimes wish I could catch up with some of the people who unwittingly became subjects of my photographs at some random moment in time. more >> by David Burnett Nuts & Bolts: The Little Camera I'm sure that the guys with the big lenses noticed me and said, "What a loser." more >> by Bill Pierce When the Cops Push Us Around, Who Pushes Back on the Cops? It happens every once in a while. A cop tells a journalist to move away from the scene of a news story in progress. more >> by Mark Doremus and Karen Slattery The Reporter's Life: Video Diary/Notes From the Sidelines The April issue with its focus on video got me to thinking of the long road we journalists have traveled. more >> by Eileen Douglas		Letter from the Publisher Welcome to the May 2009 issue of The Digital Journalist, the monthly online magazine for visual journalism. Video Journalism 85 and Still Kicking The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies holds the Guinness record for being the oldest professional chorus line in the world, and one of its performers, Dorothy Dale Kloss, holds the record—at age 85—for being the oldest “still-performing showgirl.” more>> by Dirck Halstead NAB 2009 NAB 2009 Report: No Fear and No Loathing in Las Vegas As my plane descended to the desert floor and the Las Vegas Convention Center came into view, I wondered what I would find at the 2009 NAB Show during these hard economic times. more >> by PF Bentley Review Fighting for Life: A Review The problem the public has had with the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and still has, is that there is almost no coverage of the war. By that, I mean we rarely see any combat – what war is, after all, about. more >> by Ron Steinman Essays Just an Old-Fashioned Guy I start shooting a new documentary in May. The subject is mental health, but this essay is not about that film as a film but how I still will make films in what I call "the old-fashioned way." The way I know best. more >> by Ron Steinman Twitter *Follow the Digital Journalist* on Twitter Blog The Digital Journalist Image Galleries Blog more >> 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 Advertising Loses Its Balance** In his brilliant speech at the 2007 Supernova conference, former McKinsey and now Deloitte and Touche business guru John Hagel posed fourteen unanswered questions about business in the age of digital connectivity and information technology. more >> by Terry Heaton Assignment Sheet Through a Lens Dimly: Swifty I remember it being a warm, muggy, early summer afternoon back in 1961. I had been with the paper for about a year and a half and as the new man in the Photo Department, I had the crappiest shift with days off in the middle of the week. I didn't care. I was living la dolce vita; the good life. more>> by Dick Kraus