iPhone Apps for ‘iReporters’ & AP Stylists

Not a fan myself but CNN has added an app for iReporters. The CNNMobile will allow users to “get live streaming video of breaking news, the most important headlines of the day with location-based news, weather and traffic from the palm of your hands.” This will also allow 50 millions iPhone users to “iReport” directly [...]

The Backroads: Photo-video-journalism

This is a fun read about the new skill of trying to write while photographing while getting some video. It was written by Argus Observer Lifestyle Editor Sean Hart.
Hart writes, “I held a video camera in my right hand, filming a group of kids dancing to music from the ’50s and ’60s, with a [...]

Reporters and cameramen hit with teargas

Human rights guide launched to help improve reporting

Media Trust, a group that works “with media organisations and charities to enhance their communications and enable communities to find their voice and make it heard,” has released a report titled simply Reporting Human Rights.
The report is “a guide to the Human Rights Act that is both accessible and plain speaking.”
It also includes quotes [...]

The DV Café

I’ve purchased gear from the DV Shop in Toronto before and they’ve always been friendly and helpful. Tonight I was checking over some audio stuff on their site and came across the DV Cafe. The DV Cafe is a “resource centre providing links to useful websites online offering information on digital photography, video production and [...]

Finding your voice

This link came from Advancing the Story. I’m studying radio production and it was surprising to hear some of the younger people talk about how much better they think their voice will sound if they smoked. As an ex-smoker of eighteen years all I can say is please don’t do it! Smoking isn’t going to [...]

Man Kicks TV Cameraman

Reuters: Ray of Light

A slideshow by Reuters showing some great techniques for using light.

The Assault on Citizen Photography

The Manifesto Club has released their report Policing the Public Gaze: The Assault on Citizen Photography. According to the British Journal of Photography the report looks at the “growing restrictions against public photography, which according to the Home Office is supposed to be lawful. However, the report finds that police, community safety wardens, private security [...]

Japan’s TIFF accepts The Cove

As reported on TIME . It was an odd, although not surprising, choice to reject the film in the first place but it looks like the right decision was made in the end.
Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) chairman Tom Yoda announced on Sept. 16 that the festival will screen the film [The Cove], having previously [...]