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The Camera—It’s Only the Starting Point to Change

‘So how does a global news organization such as The Associated Press get this technology working for us? In short, how do we train our photojournalists to use it?’

Partnership of Photojournalist and Writer

‘With our close collaboration, I felt for the first time as a photographer that I was working with a writer who really wanted to hear what I thought about the…

Preparing the Next Generation of Photojournalists

Exposure, a photojournalism, documentary studies, and human rights program, ‘prepares students for immersive experiences and guides them in their efforts to document through photography what they observe.’

Carving New Pathways With Photojournalism Students

‘I ask myself what I should be teaching my students. How can I prepare them so they can find good jobs? Figuring this out is my daily challenge.’

Taking Time to Rethink, Adjust and Move Forward

‘Today, how we divide our time and do our work and get paid for it has virtually no connection to how things worked for those who started out a decade…

‘Destiny’s Children’: A Legacy of War and Gangs

The recent launch of the Web site “Destiny’s Children” ends one phase of a two-decade project on youth gangs while it begins another.

Photojournalists Reach Viewers in Different Ways

Using emerging funding strategies and finding fresh venues to display their work, photographers bring foreign news reporting to new audiences.

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.