The Board of Directors of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund cordially invites you to join us for the annual grant ceremony where the 2011 grant recipient and finalists will be announced. The annual Smith grant of $30,000 is considered one of the most prestigious honors in photojournalism. A special fellowship of $5,000 will also be presented. The event will occur on Wednesday, October 19th, at 6:30 PM at the Asia Society, 725 Park Ave at 70th St., New York City. Please join us. The program will include a keynote address, guest speakers (TBA), audio-visual presentations by this year’s finalists, as well as tributes to Smith and past honorees. More details will follow in the official invitation email blast in September. An RSVP is not necessary. Admission is free, and on a first come, first served basis. The doors will open at 6 PM. The event will be followed by a reception.…

Aperture will be hosting an interactive exhibition in September, inviting both selected guests and gallery visitors to participate. Here is the project, in their words: What should we be looking at? The extraordinary number of photographs taken on September 11 made it the most photographed event in history and may have signaled the birth of citizen journalism. However in our impulse to record, we have not formulated new strategies to gain a better understanding of today’s pressing issues of a globalized world. As traditional print journalism was threatened, and the number of images published online has exploded into the billions (sixty billion on Facebook alone), we have been left with few common sources of news and analysis. There is no longer a “front page” to act as a societal filter through which, we can learn about important events and trends. Even the role that the physical café once played in our communities—the…

Fellowship applications are now being accepted for Knight Digital Media Center's Multimedia Workshop, to be held July 17-22, 2011, at UC Berkeley. Application deadline is May 23, 2011. The Multimedia Reporting and Convergence Workshop offers intensive training that covers all aspects of multimedia news production; from basic storyboarding to hands-on instruction with hardware and software for production of multimedia stories. Participants will be organized into teams to report on a pre-arranged story in the Bay Area, and then construct a multimedia presentation based on that coverage. Participants are taught skills they need to produce quality multimedia stories including: • Video recording and editing • Photography and audio slideshows • Audio recording and editing • Voice coaching for narration or stand-ups • Photoshop and Web design concepts • Producing Adobe Flash interactive story graphics WHO SHOULD APPLY: Professional print and broadcast journalists who want to develop multimedia skills to support their publication’s web…