Monthly Archives: May 2009

Why Specialty Blogs Don’t Do Hard Reporting

By Jens Haas | Published: May 31, 2009
Maybe the biggest strength of “blogs” is that bloggers write about things that interest them. That sure is different in traditional media. As I experienced it myself, 90+ percent of the work there is “service” stuff, or things that the competition are likely to run, so you have to cover them too. The original, “investigative” [...]
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Another Day, Another Traffic Cone 18

By Jens Haas | Published: May 28, 2009
It makes sense to me that film director Michelangelo Antonioni had grass touched up with green paint, roads painted black, pigeons dyed, you name it. “Make it real” sounds good, but what if reality is not up to that?
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World Press Photo: 470,214 Pictures Later

By Stephen Mayes | Published: May 26, 2009
Stephen Mayes, World Press Photo Secretary for six years, gave a widely noted keynote address at this year’s event in Amsterdam. Refreshing and fact driven, I think the address is relevant outside the field of photojournalism, as are his concerns that much of today’s photography emphasizes the romantic over the real, the copied view over [...]
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