Go SU (and other iPhone cartoon art)
Three photos shot and entirely edited into cartoons using the iPhone aps: PSmobile and Toon Paint. The first is of the SU mascot, the others are of the newsroom where I work.
My First Professional Ethical Dilema
Today WSYR, and myself, were presented with an ethical dilemma. Should we air photos, obtained from state police, of a two-year old being forced to smoke marijuana?
They had newsworthy value, as state’s evidence in a case of shocking child abuse, but they were also haunting images that the child could not have fought back against.
You can read the resulting story and my boss’s official comment here. I only realized what had just transpired after the management decided to post a explanation of their actions. Dear Newhouse School, here is a new case study.
Photos from a scary place
It has been a while since I last posted new material to this site. I have been working around the clock on finishing the News21 fellowship. Now that the fellowship material has been handed over to the web developer for final implementation, I realize that I must continue to bolster my resume and search for a job.
Here are three photos taken as part of my ongoing experiments with photography. They are taken on an iPhone photo app called CameraBag using a setting called “Helga.” I call them, photos from a scarry place: women’s shoe section.
Hoptown How To
With his white monogrammed oxford and western-Kentucky accent, Wynn Radford in every way looks the part of the southern businessman. Selling insurance, however, isn’t his only venture. Radford is also a modern day community organizer as sole sponsor and contributor to hopkinsvillehowto.com, a repository for public information.
Radford says his website is not an attempt to save the world, but simply a product of his frustration with a lack of communication between people in his “Hoptown” home. “it is an attempt to level the playing field… A forum to share information,” he says. (more…)
