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Jan 03, 2011 - Posted by Dana Lacey
At the Toronto Star, there are reporters, and there are photojournalists, and there are "Two-ways" -- Jim Rankin, Dale Brazao and Jim Wilkes. They're the Star's answer to shrinking newsroom budgets: reporters that also take photos. Here's their best shots of 2010. 
Dec 21, 2010 - Posted by Dana Lacey
CTVThe death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili, just hours before the 2010 Winter Olympics launched, sparked questions about sports safety—and a debate over TV footage choices. As Connie Monk reports, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council is ready to weigh in. 
Dec 14, 2010 - Posted by Dana Lacey
Angela HickmanDo women on a rooftop in downtown Toronto have a reasonable expectation of privacy? What if they’re in their underwear? The question: where's the wall between private time and public space? Angela Hickman reports on Torontoist’s decision to publish -- and then unpublish -- photos of unsuspecting, nearly-naked strip club employees. 
Dec 09, 2010 - Posted by Dana Lacey
The redheaded star of long-running comic strip "Brenda Starr, Reporter" will file her last story on Jan. 2. The news follows the departure of another redheaded comic star, Little Orphan Annie, who one reporter notes "ran out of tomorrows six months ago." 
Nov 30, 2010 - Posted by Dana Lacey
The first rule of conflict photography: never let your boss know you’re anything but “normal.” The second rule: don’t get killed. Photog is a new media mash-up of true stories from conflict photojournalists, quoted verbatim but told as first-person events by the fictional Thomas Smith.
Nov 23, 2010 - Posted by Dana Lacey
Earlier this week Bill Nye the Science Guy fainted onstage during a speech. No one bothered to help him -- they were too busy tweeting the news to the world. Commentators immediately started spouting about the passivity of youth, but war journalist David Axe says it's just another case of journalistic objectivity.
Sep 28, 2010 - Posted by Dana Lacey
Journalism students from the University of British Columbia have won an Emmy for their documentary about e-waste in Ghana...
Aug 23, 2010 - Posted by Dana Lacey
Pictures are worth 1,000 words – in the newspaper business that equals about 25 inches of print. One image or sound can summarize an event or person or motivate a nation; one image can upset people more than endless pages of print on the subject. Carolynne Burkholder on the ethics of photojournalism.
Aug 09, 2010 - Posted by Dana Lacey
The creators of urban space magazine Wallpaper* decided to let readers custom-design the cover of their issues. The result: hundreds of different covers, one issue... 
Aug 04, 2010 - Posted by Dana Lacey
A photojournalist declares the profession legally dead, and suggests that writers are next...
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Visual Journalism

Straddling the line between journalism and art, "visual journalism" uses tools like photography, video, illustration and multimedia to deliver the story through images, as told by visually literate journalists. In this J-Topic we follow news and trends on the visual communication side of journalism.

The evolution of images in the news business is the story of technology. Yet, from wood cut blocks in the early Illustrated News to modern digital photography and video moved around the globe within seconds of being captured, The image is still about creating visual impact by putting the viewer on the scene...and that doesn't change.

      

   

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