Jim Fridenmaker: Journalism

Tom Smart, the uncle of Elizabeth Smart, is a photojournalist at the Salt Lake City News. Read an article about life before and after his neice's kidnapping written by the Salt Lake Tribune chief photographer Trent Nelson atSportsShooter.com

Helen Thomas, former White House Bureau Chief for United Press International appeared last night at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio. Pictures from the news conference and speech can be seen by clicking on the link. (Will open in new browser window.)

Canon EOS-1D & D60 images in Sports Illustrated. Rob Galbraith is running an article about two images from Canon's latest Digital SLR's used for double-page spreads in Sports Illustrated. The EOS-1D image taken by David Bergman was shot at ISO 200 in RAW... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]

Photojournalist A Raffaele Ciriello's career began in racing coverage but quickly took him to s... [Memepool]

Con artists, online and offline. An editorial by Steven Keller. [Wellston, Ohio Telegram]

Online Journalism Review: Preparing for the Coming Era of Participatory News. Today, those forces unfold at the speed of a click. They create new media, new freedoms, and new stories. We tend to overlook their role in the society we have created and the future we are inventing. Ours is a future of stories ... of stories and clicks. [Tomalak's Realm]

News.com wins national journalism award. CNET News.com is named a winner in the eighth annual "Best in Business" awards sponsored by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. [CNET News.com]

Killings of Journalists Rose in 2001 From the Year Before. The world was a far more dangerous place for journalists in 2001 than it had been the year before, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. By Neil A. Lewis. [New York Times: Business]

Steve MacLaughlin has the scoop on a redesign at the WSJ. [Scripting News]

Judge Dismisses Fox News Suit Over Anchor's Defection to CNN. Fox News lost its lawsuit against the agent for Paula Zahn, the morning news anchor who quit Fox to join the Cable News Network last September. By Bill Carter. [New York Times: Business]

Louis Rukeyser Is Removed Early as Host of `Wall Street Week'. Louis Rukeyser was removed last night as host of "Wall Street Week With Louis Rukeyser" by the president of Maryland Public Television, Robert J. Schuman. By David Cay Johnston. [New York Times: Business]

Robot with a press pass? [CNN]

11 Charged With the Murder of Journal Reporter. Even though Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl's body has not been found, the main suspect and 10 others were charged with murder, kidnapping and terrorism today. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Paul Boutin: Bloggers vs Journalists. [Scripting News]

Helen Thomas, former senior White House correspondent and White House Bureau Chief for United Press International, is coming to Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio. Tuesday, April 16, 2002 at 7:30 p.m.. Free. Amazon.com link to her book, "Front Row at the White House." She's covered every United States President since Kennedy.

From the public NPPA (National Press Photographer Association) email list. A freelance photographer asked for advice on how to get established without being "on assignment" with a newspaper. Here is some great advice from Paul Guillory in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A paragraph from the piece follows.
Click here to view the full email. It's worth it. ... Remember a "press pass" doesn't entitle you to ANYTHING. You don't automatically get in free. You aren't guaranteed a place to sit or the right to take photos at a private event. Those things are courtesies granted by the sponsor of the event or the person who invites you. -more- ...

Honesty and absolute compliance with requirements have paid off when gaining access to events to take pictures at. I'm often asked at events "What newspaper are you with?" None, but I try and behave as if my very income depended on how I do. I try and do my homework. My obsession is to act in a way and get the best shots I can so that those "in charge" have no reason to regret their decision. Often, around this area, organizations beg for newspapers to cover their events. I'm fortunate to have a "day job" that finances my photography. I have backup equipment, more often than not pay my own way, get there early and stay late. Digital or 35 mm. Web, prints or CD. So, while I may not have the distribution a newspaper does, potentially there is a worldwide audience for my photos with a bit of work. And unlike a news photographer, I'm not on deadline having to get to the next event...so I can offer complete coverage. Of course, this means that I wont have the variety the newspaper does with a shot here and a shot there. I have to pick and choose where to be. I'm on a public NPPA (National Press Photographer Association) email list. A freelance photographer asked how they get a "press pass". A reply from a working photographer is very well written and will be posted along these lines in the next story.

Amy Wohl on quote mills: "We love to talk to reporters on subjects in which we have expertise. We hope that they're going to quote as accurately and make us look intelligent. But we know we're playing the odds and all we can hope for is to win more times than we lose." [Scripting News]