Best Advice given so far?? Know what I am talking about. Know the business. Seeing as I am almost finished with a very expensive J-school, you would think that knowing the business would be inherent in the curriculum, but for my year, it is not (the year behind me is much more fortunate). I feel like this is the case with many schools, which are just catching up with the identity crisis of journalism and trying to decide where to move from there.
Its exciting. It leaves you in a lifeboat, scrambling around the Internet to learn just how a photo agency works, and who's who at the top. Not to mention the difference between markets, and all the concerns of the Role of Journalism.
Top sites that help the lost and confused:
mediabistro.com
Errol Morris's column in the NYT
multimediashooter.com
My New Years Resolution:
To learn about and post a new photographer/site each day.
See you soon!
