09/30/2016 // By Lou Raguse He is closing in on 70 having retired after spending 40 years (to the day) in television news – 40 years in the golden age of television news. It is now a much different business than the one Bob Dotson entered as a cub reporter. But...
09/25/2016 // By Katelyn UmholtzIn the months before January 1, 2000, the world wasn’t sure what was to come once the millennium would hit. For journalists, the Y2K mystery was also there as they were adjusting to a more digital world with fewer co-workers to...
09/24/2016 // By Tom BurtonBob Lynn, the photo editor who guided the Virginia-Pilot through many years of award-winning photojournalism, is giving away copies of his newsroom management guide Vision Courage & Heart: Lessons in Leadership.First published in...
09/18/2016 // By Katelyn UmholtzJournalism and photography both have slowing job markets, and hiring managers are looking for the best and brightest to fill the few spots available. That means college students have to take the initiative to stand out.To do that,...
09/18/2016 // By Katelyn UmholtzDoral Chenoweth joined the Columbus Dispatch in the 1990s, a time when darkrooms were the best part of the newsroom.“The light was dark. The smells were ever present,” Chenoweth said. “We performed our craft in the darkroom, and it...
09/11/2016 // By Katelyn UmholtzFor some, the ‘80s were the good days. The economy was thriving compared to a decade earlier, and newspapers and magazines hadn’t started drastic cutbacks like they would a decade later.J. Kyle Keener, now the photo editor of the...
09/11/2016 // By Tom BurtonWhen a photography intern started at the Toledo Blade, picture editor David Cantor would ask if they knew the work of Walker Evans. If they had not heard of the famed photographer known for his documentary work in the 1930s Great...
09/11/2016 // By Katelyn UmholtzThe opportunity to take college students to Rio during the Paralympics this year came about after former USA Today lead Olympics reporter Vicki Michaelis, now a professor at the University of Georgia, started teaching.For UGA...
09/04/2016 // By Katelyn UmhotlzFor visual journalists, there’s often that one picture or person that inspired them to enter photojournalism. For Amanda Voisard, a contract photographer for the United Nations, that moment happened during a college tour.“I was...
09/04/2016 // By Katelyn UmholtzThe 1970s was a decade of conflict and unrest, polarizing politics and rock n’ roll. But to Bill Gentile, now a photojournalism professor at American University, it was the golden age of journalism.“This is when our jobs were more...
