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Journalism 2300: News Photography

Journalism 2300: News Photography. Week One January 25, 2010. Announcements. Attendance! Paperwork Name cards If drop any classes, 100% tuition refund if dropped by January 26 Drops to 75%. To be a better photographer…. …you need to take a lot of photos!. Focus of class.

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Journalism 2300: News Photography

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  1. Journalism 2300:News Photography Week One January 25, 2010

  2. Announcements • Attendance! • Paperwork • Name cards • If drop any classes, 100% tuition refund if dropped by January 26 • Drops to 75%

  3. To be a better photographer…

  4. …you need to take a lot of photos!

  5. Focus of class • Learn what makes a good news photograph • Basic skills in producing a good news photograph • Focus on still photographs • Share your photographs: through Web site, presentation software • Learn about the history of news photography

  6. Introductions • Instructor: Lucy Kragness • University of Minnesota Duluth Experience • 3/96 to present: Assistant to the Chancellor • 1/05 to present: Jour 2001 instructor • 1/09 to present: Jour 2300 instructor • 10/90 to 3/96: Alumni Director, University Relations • 8/90 to 10/90: Acting Director, Alumni and Media Relations • 11/84 to 10/90: Publications Director, Alumni and Media Relations • 3/89 to 5/94: Taught Publications Editing, a three-credit spring quarter journalism course • 6/85 to 6/90: Volunteer editorial adviser, Statesman student newspaper • Freelance Experience: • 7/86 to present: Freelance writer, photographer for several regional and national publications • Action Photos, 1985-88

  7. Newspaper Experience: • 9/83 to 9/84: One-person bureau in Sheridan, Wyo., for the Billings Gazette in Billings, Mont. • 3/81 to 9/83: Assistant state editor at the Billings Gazette in Billings, Mont. • 3/80 to 3/81: Managing editor of the Williston Daily Herald, Plains Reporter (weekly) and the Williston Basin Reporter (bi-weekly), all in Williston, N.D. • 11/79 to 3/80: Assistant managing editor/Sunday editor at the Williston Daily Herald • 6/79 to 11/79: Reporter, business editor at the Williston Daily Herald • 11/78 to 6/79: Assistant editor at the Northeaster newspaper in Minneapolis. • Education: • Master of Education in Educational Computing and Technology, University of Minnesota Duluth, 2001. • Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, 1979. • Personal: • Married, two grown stepchildren, grandma!

  8. Remember these photos….

  9. Let’s look at syllabus

  10. Office Hours: 502 Darland • Mondays between 3:30-4:30 p.m. • Before/after class • By appointment

  11. Texts • Photojournalism: The Professionals’ Approach, Kenneth Kobre, Sixth Edition • Associated Press Stylebook

  12. Course description • Basic skills course in news photography • Fundamentals of photojournalism

  13. Student Responsibilities • Mandatory attendance • Please arrive on time • Turn off cell phones • Avoid surfing the Internet! • Respect classmates/instructor • Major/out-of-class photography assignments • Final portfolio/Web site of photographs • Class participation • Snowy? Call UMD snow hotline: 218-726-SNOW

  14. Individual presentation on a prominent photojournalist • Bring fully charged laptop to class each week • Bring Photojournalism:The Professionals’ Approach to class each week • Daily reading of the Duluth News-Tribune • Weekly reading of the Statesman • Midterm exam • Final exam

  15. Grading • Major photography assignments: 40% • Out-of-class assignments: 14% • Midterm exam: 5% • Presentation on photojournalist: 8% • Class participation: 13% • Final portfolio: 15% • Final exam: 5% • Egradebook: • http://www.d.umn.edu/egradebook

  16. Extra Credit • Photograph published: 10 points • Need prior approval • Letter to the Editor published: 10 points • Duluth News-Tribune • Minneapolis Star-Tribune • St. Paul Pioneer Press • Media tours: 10 points • Other: Arranged

  17. Extra Credit: 10 points • "Ubuntu: I am because you are“ • Tuesday, January 26, 2010 7 p.m.Bohannon Hall 90 Anton Van Zyl is the publisher of a group of independent papers in the South Africa’s remote Limpopo province. Zaidi Khumalo is editor of a one-man, monthly newspaper in one of the townships of Johannesburg. Email a short (5 paragraph) summary of what you learned to lkragnes@d.umn.edu by Tuesday, February 2.

  18. Late assignments • Journalism definition: • The collection and editing of news for presentation through the media • Old news = no news: • No late assignments!

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