I went to Zuccoti park at three different moments of the day – last Friday around noon, on Sunday night, and this morning.
Here are the pictures.
Category Archives: Blog Assignments
Starting a Business during the Great Recession
In an economy stalled at 9% unemployment for the third straight month, is entrepreneurship the way forward?
What should Obama do?
Since the recession started Americans trust Obama’s policies less and less.
Obama, 2008 Presidential Campaign - Creative Commons "Barack Obama" / FlickR
Occupy Wall Street: Your Thoughts!
I’ve been down to Zuccotti Park a few times, but I’m curious for your thoughts on Occupy Wall Street.
Paid versus Unpaid Internships
A few weeks ago, two unpaid interns challenged the status quo of the film industry by suing Fox Searchlight Pictures. The men, who worked on the movie Black Swan, argued that Fox failed to provide the necessary educational experience to justify not paying their interns. As more for-profit companies get in on the act of offering only unpaid internships, we have to ask: is this fair?
How important is it to have images with a news article?
In the modern journalism industry, often the print journalist is asked to photograph and the photographer is asked to write. The crossover between the two mediums has been expedited and simplified with the rise of modern technology and now we see both trained journalists and citizen journalists using mobile devices to report and distribute news.
But is this causing photographs in the news to suffer without the proper training to make good images or grow with the expanded accessibility? Is the value of good images being undermined or supported by the use of modern technology and the abandonment of the trained photojournalist?
My Survey Post
The tuition raise is a problem that every student has been facing. Please fill out this survey and let me know your opinion.