Newsshooter.com contributor Jonah Kessel Shares in a Pulitzer Prize for...
Reported by Mat Gallagher: iECONOMY: Factory Upgrade from Jonah Kessel on Vimeo. The 2013 Pulitzer prize winners, announced this week, include the work of The New York Times video journalist and...
View ArticleVideo: Newsshooter’s Matt Allard talks at Rule Boston Camera on shooting...
Reported by Mat Gallagher: The Challenges of Shooting Global News Coverage with Matthew Allard on 4.17.13 from Rule Boston Camera on Vimeo. Newsshooter’s own Matt Allard gave a live talk to Rule Boston...
View ArticleThe state we’re in: Multimedia in modern journalism – a new report for World...
Reported by Mat Gallagher: The World Press Photo commissioned Dr David Campbell to examine the current practices of multimedia against the background of the disruption in the traditional media economy,...
View ArticleSize Matters — Jonah Kessel field tests the Canon C100 in Burma
Guest post by Jonah Kessel: I went to Burma with a simple task: to investigate challenges to Myanmar’s nascent model of democracy using the mining industry as a device to talk about bigger issues....
View ArticleRobbing our subjects or helping our audience? Jonah Kessel on voice-overs
Guest post by Jonah Kessel: LEAVING THE LAND: Urban, But Left Behind from Jonah Kessel on Vimeo. SUBTITLED VERSION: Urban, but Left Behind “In the end, we didn’t reach an agreement. They got violent...
View ArticleIBC 2013: BBC Research & Development – Measuring and Improving the Quality of...
By @Jonah_Kessel: IBC 2013: BBC Research & Development – Measuring and Improving the Quality of Live Subtitles from Dan Chung on Vimeo. Following my post last week on Newshooter.com “Robbing our...
View ArticleIBC 2013: BBC R&D — The Future is at 120 Frames Per Second
By @Jonah_Kessel: IBC 2013: BBC R&D — The Future is at 120 Frames Per Second from Dan Chung on Vimeo. One of the more interesting halls at IBC this year was the “Future” hall where research and...
View ArticleHow should we judge the best multimedia? An open letter to World Press Photo...
By contributor Jonah Kessel and edited by site editor Dan Chung: The World Press Photo multimedia competition is now a few years old. It seeks to recognise photojournalists and multimedia professionals...
View ArticleBBC shooter Christian Parkinson: Moving from cameraman to video journalist
Guest post by Christian Parkinson: For too long the news shooter has been seen as a techie. News often seems to be about the correspondent while those of us who shoot, edit and sweat blood for the...
View ArticleEbb and Flow: Jonah Kessel on Commercial Video Fueling Editorial Possibilities
By Newsshooter contributing editor Jonah Kessel: How Lili Learned How to Travel Smart from Jonah Kessel on Vimeo. It was the moment that I got my first payment from a newspaper that I realized I would...
View ArticleInter BEE 2013: Our live coverage of Japan’s biggest broadcast show starts...
By site editor Dan Chung: Tomorrow sees the start of Interbee – Japan’s equivalent of the NAB show in Las Vegas. The country’s largest broadcast event is a chance for the big Japanese manufacturers to...
View ArticleInter BEE 2013 live show replay: In conversation with Japan based documentary...
By site editor Dan Chung: I’ve been following the work of Japan based freelance documentary shooter and photographer Adrian Storey for some time now. He has worked with quite a few media organisations...
View ArticleConflict and VICE wins at the Rory Peck 2013 awards
Reported by Features Editor Mat Gallagher: The Rory Peck awards, which celebrate the work of freelance shooters across the globe, has announced this year’s winners. Sponsored by Sony, the awards...
View ArticleCovering disaster: Al Jazeera’s Matt Allard on assignment in the aftermath of...
By technical editor Matt Allard: Covering natural disasters is one of the hardest assignments. There are so many variables to deal with, including the logistics of getting in and out. When Typhoon...
View ArticleCovering the death of Nelson Mandela for the BBC
Guest post by Christian Parkinson of imagejunkies.com: I arrived in Johannesburg excited for my upcoming documentary shoot in Lesotho. Leaving the plane I sleepily switched my phone back on and it...
View ArticleA Freelancer’s New Year’s Message – by Jonah Kessel
By Newsshooter contributor Jonah Kessel Myanmar Emerges: Promise and Peril from GlobalPost on Vimeo. About four months ago I stopped booking new work. 2013 was an amazing year of work for me. I shot,...
View ArticleWorld Press Photo Offers Free Online Multimedia Course – What gear would you...
Guest post by D J Clark: In 2010, the last time I ran a World Press Photo workshop in Africa, we worked out that for the same cost of training ten African journalists in one week, we could create a...
View ArticleThe $5000 question: What kit made our Essential Gear Guide?
Guest post by D J Clark: Last week I asked Newsshooter.com contributors and readers to help recommend a $5,000 kit list for shooters undertaking the free World Press Photo Connected Learning Multimedia...
View ArticleIs the DSLR dead for Online Video? A World Press Photo Connected Learning...
Guest post by DJ Clark: In 2007, no one could have predicted the impact the Canon 5D mkII would have on online video journalism; not even Canon. But five years on, many multimedia journalists are...
View ArticleiPhone Journalism & News gathering: Epic opportunity or catastrophic compromise?
Guest post by Glen Mulcahy: I’ve been working in RTE, the national broadcaster of Ireland for 16 years. I started in Broadcast engineering before moving into technical resource management in News and...
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