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Here are three slightly different versions of the same story, "Mom Goes to War," which I photographed last summer with reporter Mark Brunswick while working at The (Minneapolis) Star Tribune. In the story, Maj. Patricia Baker, a helicopter pilot in the Minnesota National Guard, prepares to go to Iraq for her second deployment, and her son Zach talks about his mother leaving. The first version uses only natural sound, while the other two use loops from GarageBand. I did a limited amount of music editing to fit it to the video.

Nielsen: Online Video Use Skyrockets Online video engagement by Internet users is deepening, according to a new report on the online landscape released last week by The Nielsen Company. Nielsen Online CEO John Burbank takes a look at the economic and advertising impacts of the report.

The Ethics of Mixing Music and Videojournalism Regina McCombs, a Poynter Institute visual journalism instructor, has created a powerful illustration of how soundtracks can affect a video story -- illuminating the debate as to whether they have a proper place in videojournalism. In her article, "See How Music Changes a Story," she shows three versions of the same video story, "Mom Goes to War" (featuring a pilot preparing for her second Iraq deployment and her young son). The first is with natural sound. The second adds a slow, somber keyboard track. The third features an upbeat guitar/percussion track. (Both scores are GarageBand loops -- demonstrating how easy and accessible it is for even someone with a tin ear to provide professional sounding music background.) McCombs poses the all-important question: how do the alternate versions change the way you react to, and feel about, the story?

Short excerpt from Gregory Colbert's film ashes and snow. Not to everyone's taste, but i think visually it's stunning and it certainly raises a lot of interesting questions re the purpose and aesthetics of multimedia.

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group discussion on Demotix from lightstalkers

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Movie World Photo Press Award Winner 2008 05/06/2009 Filmed only a week before leaving for Amsterdam to receive the 2008 World Photo Press Award, Leica joined photojournalist Anthony Suau as he used his camera on assignment in Spanish Harlem to document the Feed the Children Drive in his ongoing coverage and interest of the economic crisis. As he traveled to Wall Street to discuss this major achievement in photojournalism, Leica had the opportunity to hear about his recent travels, how he captured the award winning photo and the other images in the series on the economic and foreclosure crisis in the U.S.

noor photo agency website

tony suau's project on eastern europe

brenda ann keannaly's multimedia site

some great info for pro photographers on licensing and the internet

Seems BJP reckons we should be going to Arles rather than Visa pour l'image... perhaps a bit of both? Probably not realistic though...

In 1992, the oracle of Omaha predicted the decline of newspapers, magazines, and TV.

Submit between 3 - 6 images as an exhibition series. Images must fall into the criteria of reportage, fashion, documentary, landscape, wildlife, portraiture or fine art photography. The judges are seeking dynamic and arresting images which portray a compelling narrative.

Media and development - Where's the Gap? John Davison, the Head of Media at Christian Aid has begun his personal visiting research fellowship at Polis with a research seminar at which he outlined his plans for a study of the relationship between journalism and NGOs in Africa

War and Peace in Afghanistan Photographs by Louie Palu and audio clips recorded during his travels capture the violence and tranquility in everyday Afghan life.