Clay Shirky is fast becoming one of the top thinkers on the future of journalism and if you listen to a talk he gave at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, you will understand why. The Nieman Journalism Lab has an mp3 (here) and the transcript (here). Some of the major points

More sophisticated ways of measuring usership and engagement will change focus from mass audience, Plotz believes, and that will make journalism better. Raw numbers create “pressure to produce one kind of story” that will draw hits. New metrics of engagement and behavior offer a “tremendous opportunity for Web journalism to escape the traffic” trap. He

journalism.co.uk reports: Google doesn’t need newspapers – it’s official; but its users do, Matt Brittin, UK director of Google, told the Society of Editors conference today. Full report here: journalism.co.uk...

Avid teams with ABC to give journalism students the opportunity to practice production, editing and distribution aspects of broadcast journalism in their ABC News to Campus program. Read on for more details.

Guardian reports : The Hugh Cudlipp lecture: Does journalism exist? The full text of Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger's Hugh Cudlipp lecture Here: guardian.co.uk...

John Adkisson, a journalism student at UNC Journalism School Chapel Hill won best multimedia story at the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar. via, Alvarez – Picture Stories. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Looking to buy a new website? A Photo Folio is a website design company created by A Photo Editor. Have a look (here).

Learn how you can capture sharp results on moving subjects in the studio which usually really hard to do even when you have the best studio lights available in the market.

First image from my shoot with Karina Hanssen =) Since I don’t work @ studio-g anymore, and natrually can’t use that studio. I was lucky enough to borrow Dafoto’s studio. This is also the same studio that Fotofashion uses =) So thanks to him for lending it to me on rahter short notice (like, one

About a week ago, I asked DIYP readers where do they take most of their studio pictures. The matter of setting up a home studio is strongly related to having a place to set the studio at.  We've all seen how a studio can be set up in under three minutes (ok, timelapse cheating, but still), so it was interesting to learn how DIYP readers coped with this issue. Full results and some though...

Late next month, Brooks Institute will host a multi-day workshop that focuses on the shooting and editing of stills, video and audio into a finished documentary piece. Called the VJ Multimedia Workshop, it's aimed at both visual journalism students and photojournalists who have been recently laid off. It's free to attend.