MISSING: Habitual lenser, recently seen loitering outside Greensboro’s federal courthouse. Answers to “RAD”, “TV Tog” and “Dude, is that thing heavy?”. Often seen schooling news crews at emergency scenes. Subject has profound attachment to his little y…

The 2012 NBA finals may come down to tonight’s game between the Miami Heat and the Oklahoma City Thunder , but Go To Team’s Atlanta based Director of Photography, Tom Wells, was there in the beginning before the finals began.  Turner owned NBA TV recently contracted Tom to oversee the technical production of their image […]

Still photography is my primary hobby. It used to just be ONE of many many hobbies, but somehow the last few years have been mostly filled with trying to get better at taking pictures.Don’t ask me why, I don’t have a good answer and I’ve stopped tryin…

Hearst news photog Norman Alley (with Eyemo) with an unidentified USN photographer aboard the USS Lexington (CV-2) somewhere in the Pacific in January of 1942. In the background on the flight deck, you can see sailors rigging a barricade to recover a severely damaged aircraft that was unable to land on the carrier normally with […]

Ah yes, American Idol. If ever there was a cure for my writing malaise, it’s the backstage pass I hold to our nation’s goofiest game show. Then again, I’ve slept-walked though so many of these auditions, I find more intrigue in my pimento cheese collec…

Ah yes, American Idol. If ever there was a cure for my writing malaise, it’s the backstage pass I hold to our nation’s goofiest game show. Then again, I’ve slept-walked though so many of these auditions, I find more intrigue in my pimento cheese collec…

The Reynolds Journalism Institute just released part 2 of its 10-part series on mobile. This second installment included an interesting section on news consumption through mobile devices. …two-thirds (67%) of mobile media owners ages 18-34 used their devices to access local, national and international news provided by news organizations for an average of five hours per week. Interestingly, the percentage dropped a bit for those ages 35-54 (62%), but the amount of time spent increased slightly (5.6 hours per week). And the drop off was larger for those 55+. Mobile media owners 55 and older were somewhat less likely to use their devices for consuming news. Nearly three-out-of-five (58%) in this age group said they used their devices for this purpose an average of 4.0 hours per week. The lead researcher on the project, Roger Fidler, believes this may be a by-product of the fact that the older demographic is also more likely to have print subscriptions to newspapers and news magazines. The news interest among those in the younger demographic is encouraging for those who worried that the audience for news was literally dying off. But while news organizations are scrambling to deliver content on mobile devices, they must […]