According to the trip blog, “The goal for these journalism, advertising and public relations students — to walk back through time and learn at these historic sites how the blood, sweat and tears of the 1950s and 60s equal rights pioneers paved the way for all people of color, women, gays and lesbians, the disabled and religious cultural groups in America to be recognized, appreciated, and valued in our society, and to have equal opportunity to live the American dream.”

Already, the students have been featured in the pages of the San Jose Mercury News, their iReport clips have aired on CNN, and their coverage has been featured on the KTVU web site.

You can follow along with their coverage by viewing their blog, and can help them cover trip expenses by donating.

The following piece was put together by SJSU alumni Diana Diroy.

9:00 – 9:30: Coffee/Breakfast

9:30 – 10:00: Introductions (Begin Silent Auction)
10:00 – 10:30: Open Mic
10:30 – 12:00: Oakland Tribune: Not Just A Number

12:00 – 1:00: Lunch

1:00 – 5:00: Break-Out Groups featuring:

Richard Koci-Hernandez: Establishing a multimedia presence at your newspaper
Dai Sugano / Gary Reyes: Video gathering and editing techniques
Audio: Audio gathering and editing techniques
Vuvox: Jim Lanahan and Dane Howard
Kevin German: Portrait Column @ Sac Bee and location lighting
Gary Fong: Sell yourself and your work: How to become a successful freelance photographer
Latest Gear/Software from: Adobe, Apple, Canon, Nikon

1:00 – 1:50: Apple, Richard Koci-Hernandez, Audio I (Gathering Audio), Gary Fong
2:00 – 2:50: Adobe, Dai/Gary I (Gathering Video), Vuvox, Gary Fong

2:50 – 3:10: Short Break

3:10 – 4:00: Canon, Audio II (Editing Audio), Kevin German, Vuvox
4:10 – 5:10: Nikon, Dai/Gary II (Editing Video), Richard Koci-Hernandez, Kevin German

5:10 – 7: BBQ

7:00 – until: (Close of Print Auction) Portfolio Reviews

Since then the students and faculty at SJSU have been keeping the ball rolling. Journalism student Kyle Hansen just accepted an internship at Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive. He will be working with Rob Curley on hyper-local sites and other online projects.

San Jose State will also be hosting the west coast installment of the NPPA Flying Short Course. We have been planning a variety of speakers, workshops and other events and will have everything together in time for the October 27-28 weekend. If you have any suggestions for what you would like to see feel free to drop me an email.

Lastly, something that has been in the works for some time now has finally been approved. The San Jose State photojournalism department will be holding multimedia workshops during the two summer sessions each year. Each session will be three weeks and will take place in a foreign country. The kicker, as if working on stories abroad was not enough, is that our school has two partners in this project. The Mercury News and National Geographic will each be sending either a photographer or an editor for one week to assist students as they learn multimedia storytelling techniques.

Thank you Ryan for the appropriate post title.

You have until midnight to upload today’s (02.23.07) letter; C.

When working for a large paper or a newswire, the staff exists to post-process images for you and/or little post processing is done because the photographer does not know where the photograph will end up. In the case of a photographer working at a smaller paper, that photographer is aware of any subtleties that may exist in printing for that particular paper. He/she can adjust tones to compensate for uncalibrated monitors, poor presses, cheap paper, etc.

A few interesting suggestions came up, including a system to either track changes made to an image throughout its “life,” the embedding of a thumbnail of the raw file within the photograph’s data, and a scaled back version of photoshop that would limit the ease in which photographs can be manipulated and more closely simulate wet darkroom characteristics.

In the end, it seemed like both sides were striving for the same goal; to present to their viewers an honest a truthful view of reality. Whether that reality is what is seen by the eye of the photographer or what can be captured by a digital sensor remains a question.

Tomorrow we will be holding a portfolio review in the photo room of the Spartan Daily beginning at 6pm. Bring a loose edit of images so that we can sit down and prepare entries for CPOY, Chips Quinn and other upcoming internships.

Also, on Thursday, Sept. 28 Shmuel Thaler and Nhat Meyer will be speaking at SJSU. They will be discussing the firing of Patrick Schneider, the ethical guidelines that are followed at their respective papers and toning sample images.

Thursday, Sept. 28 – Shmuel Thaler, staff photographer of Santa Cruz Sentinel and president of the California Press Photographers Association. Nhat Meyer, staff photographers with San Jose Mercury News. They will talk on ethics in the digital darkroom age.

Tuesday, Oct. 10 – Michael Grecco, Los Angeles freelance photographer from editorial to advertising.

Thursday, Oct. 26 – Frederic Neema, a San Francisco based freelance photographer, will discuss business practices and marketing yourself.

Thursday, Nov. 9 – Marcio Sanchez and Jeff Chiu, staff photographers with Associated Press.

Thursday, Nov. 30 – Brad Mangin, freelance sports photographer and founding member of Sportshooter, will be showing his work from the World Series.

Where: SJSU Journalism building Dwight Bentel Hall room 133
When: All meetings start at 6 p.m.

Here are links to a map of campus (DBH is located in C2) as well as directions to the campus. For more information you can email sjsunppa@gmail.com.