The Cliff and Vi Edom Truth With A Camera Workshop recently wrapped up its 13th year, with 24 photojournalists spending a week in and around Norfolk, VA, taking stories from conception to final production. This year, the students worked with both still images and audio to create multimedia presentations on topics ranging from a fisherman, military life and a local drive-in restaurant to teen pregnancy. All of the presentations from the Workshop are available online.
As many photographers and editors are preparing to head over to Perpignan, France for Visa Pour l'Image, The Digital Journalist has posted a gallery of images representing The Best from Visa Pour l'Image 2007, along with a profile of Visa founder and leader, Jean-François Leroy. Images in the gallery represent photographers from all around the world, covering stories from Afghanistan and Iraq to x-rays of weapons of destruction, to polar bears along the Arctic Ice Edge.
MSNBC.com has several job openings for Video Editors and Producers (along with several other positions). These are not entry-level positions- each requires at least two years experience producing/editing video on the web, and applicants should be able to work in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment. For applicants in (or willing to be in) Redmond, WA, there are positions open for a Video Editor and a Senior Video Producer/Editor, and for those in NYC, Video Editor/Producer, TODAY show; Senior Video Producer, Originals; and Senior Video Producer, Podcasts.
CFR.org's Crisis Guides are a finalist for the 2007 Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. The Council on Foreign Relations produces these guides on crisis zones, providing interactive news and information to help make sense of these issues. MediaStorm has worked with CFR as a co-producer on these Guides, which include one on The Korean Peninsula and another on Darfur. Award Winners will be announced on September 17, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
There is some great journalism up over at Photobetty. Three new stories went up this month. Jean Chung looks at the complications of giving birth in Afghanistan. Anastasia Taylor-Lind documented a group of Kurdish female guerrila fighters, and Rena Effendi focuses on the internally displaced people in her own country of Azerbaijan.