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The Digital Journalist
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| Welcome |
| Welcome to the June issue of The Digital Journalist, the monthly online magazine for visual journalism. |
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| Tech Tips |
| A question regarding the EOS-1D Mark II and Speedlite 580EX. |
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| Local Media in a Postmodern World: It's Always About the Money |
| When the Internet bubble burst early in the new millennium, many smart people learned the harshest of all business lessons: when the money's gone, there is no business. |
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| Standard Operating Procedure: A Critique |
| Errol Morris' latest film, Standard Operating Procedure about the abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, is at times brilliant, infuriating, tedious, at one hour and 57 minutes far too long, boring, with high-end graphics that are far too slick, looking as if they are from an expensive television commercial. |
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| Remembering Flip Schulke |
| Photojournalist Flip Schulke (1930--2008), known for his underwater photography, covered a wide range of subjects but his best-known, historically-important work was of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights era. |
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| Common Cents: The Perfect Storm |
| Remember the scene in The Perfect Storm where George Clooney and his crew had sailed through meteorological purgatory and survived only to encounter a gi-normous wave, which sends the boat to the bottom? |
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| Orphan Works? |
| As readers of The Digital Journalist are well aware, we have been a staunch supporter of photographers' copyright since our first issue. |
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| $1.28 A Freakin' Hour |
| I was in Washington a few weeks ago at the annual awards dinner of the White House News Photographers Association. |
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| Nuts & Bolts |
| Often, as photojournalists, we don't have the control over the subject that, say, a commercial photographer in a studio might have. |
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| Bill Eppridge: A Personal Reflection on the Photographer in a Tumultuous Time |
| By any formal definition, Bill Eppridge may not be a Boomer, and I'm not sure that even Boomers are required to accept the Sixties as halcyon days, but I'd challenge anyone to find a photographer better attuned to those times. |
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| Compression Session: Sorenson Squeeze 5 & Primatte Keyer 4 |
| I'm writing this from Ventura, Calif., where in 48 hours, the 25th Platypus Workshop will commence and I'll be brain dead in a few days. |
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| Dispatches |
| This month we have three Dispatches: Adam Dean covers the earthquake in China, David Bathgate goes to Checkpoint Delta in Afghanistan with American soldiers and, in Iran Ali Shirjian considers the importance of a now-sacred battleground of the Iran-Iraq War. |
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| The View From Checkpoint Delta |
| On the ground, the ruggedness of the Hindu Kush leaves little doubt that one could easily hide here or fail to secure and control its perimeter. |
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| Broken Mirrors |
| ...it seemed to me as if their loved ones had just departed, not some 18 years ago with the end of the war. |
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| Into the Earthquake Disaster Zone |
| The first day I headed straight for Beichuan County a small town a few hours drive from Chengdu which was one of the worst effected areas. |
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| E-bits: Synchronicities, Chain Reactions and Magic Without Magic |
| I've been thinking a lot lately about things like synchronicity, spontaneous combustion, chain reactions, gravitation, and other such phenomena in physics and chemistry but that also occur metaphorically on every level of existence. |
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| First Steal a Chicken |
| It really was a lovely funeral. |
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| In the Eye of the Myanmar (Burma) Cyclone: A Firsthand Account |
| Three days of driving rain had already begun to ruin the dry season rice harvest, leaving the crop under water, before I returned to Yangon from Bago on the day the cyclone struck. |