Last week, Stephanie Clifford wrote an article in the New York Times detailing changes in the landscape of professional photography arising from the competition with amateurs newly-enfranchised by digital technology.

At the recent Joop Swart Masterclass for World Press Photo, I was touched by the desire of Iranian photographer Ali Akbar Shirjian, a student, to bring back information from the class to his fellow Iranian photographers in the hopes he could use the fruits of his experience to help them to organize effectively into a professional group.

As I regroup after several weeks of personal and professional travel, I wanted to address an interesting question that was raised recently as I was doing a live discussion on video journalism for knowledgewebb.net.

Today, I wanted to acknowledge my multimedia colleagues at MSNBC.com marking the first decade of “The Week in Pictures”, or TWIP as it is known in the trade. MSNBC.com senior multimedia editor Meredith Birkett has put together a good behind-the-scenes look that details both the history and ambition of this presentation – a mainstay feature of their visual journalism presentation.

Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to visit MediaStorm in Brooklyn to talk in depth with Brian Storm and his team about their multimedia storytelling and aspirations for the future.

Yesterday, I was conducting a live chat on behalf of knowledgewebb.net on visual journalism topics when I got this question from a student.  “Should I continue to take courses in photojournalism or switch my major now?”   The follow up question was something to the effect with all that is going on now economically “… [...]

This past weekend, Susan Boyle competed in the finals of Britain’s Got Talent and came in second ultimately to the street dance troupe Diversity, despite winning the hearts of judges Piers Morgan, Amanda Holden, and Simon Cowell.  Her lifelong interest in singing led up to her decision  to enter the competition, leaving the tiny Scotland village of [...]

Today’s announcement of more North Korean short-range missile test firings reminded me again of my visit to Seoul last spring where I had the opportunity to speak to the senior management of Chosun Ilbo, one of South Korea’s leading daily newspapers, about multimedia and online visual communications.