Next Meeting on Thurs. Nov 12th

Our next meeting is this Thursday, November 12th in CMA room 2.320 (the ground floor auditorium). Our topic at this meeting will be marketing/ promoting/ representing yourself. Tara Haelle will present information on creating an effective web-based presence (including website design, hosting, SEO, social networking, blogging, etc) and Jenn Hair will give a presentation on print-based presentation (business cards, logos, identity systems, resume packages, promotional materials, portfolios, etc). Plan to take notes and leave with a wealth of ideas and resources!

We’ll be taking nominations for officers at this meeting because elections for the new NPPA officers for the spring semester will be held at the Nov 19 meeting. We’ll be sending out an email with officer descriptions and committee information shortly.

Photo Event: “Navigating the Downturn” Panel- Nov 11th

There is an NPPA-sponsored panel discussion called “Navigating the Downturn” coming up next Wednesday, November 11. Former newspaper and magazine photographers will talk about maintaining a client base during an economic downturn. While this is not one of our regular student chapter meetings, the chapter is co-sponsoring the event. The panel will be held in CMA 3.120 from 5pm to 7:30pm. Read about the panel here.

Lighting Workshop with Kirk Tuck — Recap

At our last meeting we had the pleasure of hosting a lighting workshop put on by local photographer and lighting specialist Kirk Tuck. He demonstrated his theories of minimalist lighting and answered questions ranging from how to deal with varying color casts from different types of lights, to how to adjust your lighting to photograph someone who wears glasses.

Tuck’s essential lighting arrangement included one shoe mount flash on a lighting stand, tethered to your camera via a remote trigger. Between the flash and the subject he placed a 2-stop diffusion scrim, then played with the distances and angles between the flash, the scrim and the subject to change the quality of light, generally placing the scrim a little bit to the front of and as close as possible to the face of a subject.

For anyone interested in learning more about Tuck’s technique, he has a book out called Minimalist Lighting that is available for purchase on Amazon. Tuck also suggested some online resources for anyone who wants to read up on lighting techniques, Strobist and Lighting Essentials.

Photos by Tara Haelle

Internship Opportunity: Virginian-Pilot

Application Deadline: December 1, 2009

The Virginian-Pilot is offering a summer 2010 internship for currently enrolled college students with prior experience working with a college newspaper or other publications. Our internships are highly competitive. Therefore, experience working on a college newspaper is a must, and a previous internship at a daily paper is a plus.

Reporters and photographers will need a car. Juniors and seniors are preferred, but sophomores and graduate students also are eligible. The Pilot selects six interns, who will be notified by early February 2010. All internships run for 12 weeks and the pay is $600 a week.

Internship Opportunity: Orlando Sentinel

Application Deadline: November 16, 2009

 

The Orlando Sentinel is offering an academic (non-paid) spring and summer 2010 internship program. The Sentinel works with journalism schools in Florida and across the country in offering unpaid internships for academic credit in reporting, photography and online producing.

To participate, students must be enrolled for internship credit at a college or university. The amount of time spent interning and the number of credits awarded vary by school. Full-time internships are available during the summer to students from across the country who have housing available in Central Florida. Candidates must have completed basic skills courses and must have campus media experience. Internship or stringing experience is strongly preferred.

Internship Opportunity: High Country News

Application Deadline: February 26, 2010

High Country News is a nonprofit independent media organization that covers the important issues and stories that are unique to the American West. Our mission is to inform and inspire people to act on behalf of the West’s land, air, water and inhabitants, and to create what writer Wallace Stegner called “a society to match the scenery.”

Every year, High Country News offers six internship positions, each six months long. Three new interns join us each June and January; we provide free housing and a $170-per-week stipend. To help defray moving costs, an additional $500 travel stipend is available. For each internship session, we hire two Editorial Interns and a Multimedia Intern.

Internship Opportunity: Florida Times-Union

Application Deadline: December 1, 2009

The Florida Times-Union is soliciting applications from college students for its annual summer intern program. The intern program extends through the summer months, and exact dates of employment will be negotiated. Interns may expect to be in the program for about 12 weeks. Preference will be given to Individuals who have held summer internships with daily newspapers in the past and individuals proven interested in a career in print journalism. Interns must have their own vehicles.

Internship Opportunity: Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is offering a 12-week paid internship program for college juniors, seniors and graduate students who have at least one previous internship at a daily newspaper other than college. Interns will work 20-24 hours a week and must be able to – and often do – cover major stories their first days on the job. Opportunities will be considered in all newsroom departments: graphics, copy editing/design, photography, editorial, metro, breaking news, sports, business and features.

Internship Opportunity: Associated Press

Application Deadline: November 13, 2009

The Associated Press is offering a summer 2010 photojournalism internship program – a highly selective, 12-week, individually tailored training program for students who are aspiring photojournalists or photo editors. The internship is open to full-time juniors, seniors (including fall 2009 graduates) and graduate students at American colleges and universities.

We select a minimum of two students for photo internships. You work with a designated trainer to help you in your development. You get paid. And best of all, you get to cover stories that could be featured in media outlets around the state or around the globe. Start dates may be anytime between mid-May and mid-June, depending on your schedule.

Internship Opportunities: Orange County Register

Deadlines: Dec. 1 for spring and Dec. 15 for summer.

Orange County Register Communications offers about two dozen college internships each year at The Orange County Register. Application procedures and requirements differ depending on the internship. We’re looking for reporters, photographers, page designers, copy editors, graphics artists, and journalists with Web, multimedia and broadcast skills.

Generally, applicants should be juniors or seniors at four-year universities or graduate students enrolled in degree programs or who have extensive experience on college newspapers, electronic media, professional publications or Web sites.