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Pushing Past Technology to Reach Enduring Issues

‘I want my students to be engaged not just about making a product … they’ll submit to the College Photographer of the Year contest—but in thinking critically about the process…

Newspaper Employee to Nonprofit Director: A Photojournalist’s Journey

The idea behind Wéyo ‘was to capitalize on our collective years of journalism experience and turn our narrative storytelling abilities toward work with nonprofits.’
Agent Orange: Pressing the Government to Take Responsibility

Agent Orange: Pressing the Government to Take Responsibility

Words and photographs by Wendy Watriss.

Photojournalism in the New Media Economy

Success will depend on ‘seeing oneself as a publisher of content and a participant in a distributed story, the form of which helps reshape the content of the story.’

A Story Rooted in a Community Gives Voice to Its People

Ali Ahmed Ali was among a community of Yemeni sailors who lived in a boarding house in South Shields, Great Britain, between trips at sea. Photo by Peter Fryer.RELATED ARTICLE“Photojournalism…

Looking Beneath the Surface of Stories in Iraq, Iowa and Rwanda

Providing storytelling and context for photographs is a major motivation for MediaStorm’s multimedia projects, such as the three that founder Brian Storm discusses in the conversation.“The Marlboro Marine” by Luis…

Journey to a New Beginning

As the doors of established media slam shut, a photojournalist knocks on new ones to find the promise of more authenticity in his storytelling and greater control over his work.

Multimedia Adds New Dimensions to the Art of Storytelling

RELATED ARTICLE“Journey to a New Beginning”– Ed KashiFrom a book to a Web site, from a series of photographs to a digital flipbook, my work—and that of many of my…

Failing to Harness the Web’s Visual Promise

Today, too many news organizations still don’t take advantage of digital media’s capacity to give readers contextual information and to engage them in finding out more about the story the…
Slideshows in Visual Journalism

Slideshows in Visual Journalism

The photographs of more than a dozen contributors to the Spring 2010 issue have been compiled into slideshows and presented online for Nieman Reports readers.