Class Agenda for Oct. 2, 2007

For Context
Columbia Graduate School of Journalism Blog

http://apresidentvisits.blogspot.com/

Watch the video

http://apresidentvisits.blogspot.com/2007/09/blog-post_26.html

Discuss

Turn in the papers
Discuss standards – for e-mail, for papers

Give students 5 minutes to present their topics for peer review

Student Presentations, Discussions

Photojournalism

How many students have cameras? We are beginning to go into our multimedia segments – in this course you have to use more than one tool.

Flickr
www.flickr.com

Get a flickr account by next week and post photographs
We will create private groups so that we can look at and critique our still photography.

Take a portrait of someone, a different other, as anthropologists would say.

Take a picture of a group of people, preferably indoors, using flash
Be ambitious,
Capture an emotion

Tips for photojournalism
http://www.ndsu.edu/communication/collins/242photojournalism/Principles.html




http://krochmal.tumblr.com/page/3
Kenji Nagai

Take a look at photojournalism

Changing face of photojournalism, awards from the National Press Photographers Association

http://bop.nppa.org/2007/web_sites/winners/

2007 Best of Television Photojournalism
http://www.nasites.net/projects/1296/newsfeatureweb.asp

The winner:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/interactives/blackmen/blackmen.html

And, now for some fun
Let’s take a look
http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/

Read and remark
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2007/09/breaking_government_blockadesy.html

On YouTube and Flickr and governments


Assignment
Turn in 10 sources for your final project
3 must be top down – the official voice
annotated -- e-mail, title, address and rationale
3 must experts in the field
annotate -- e-mail, title, address and rationale
1 must come from open-source methods
How will you verify they are who they are?
2 must be MWOS
Who is the person who this story hits home for and how are you going to find them.