Skaneateles, NY — Last weekend a couple of copy editors and I participated in the annual Fall Workshop. I’ve probably tried to explain the purpose of the Workshop about 20 times and have never gotten it right. Here’s what the official Web site has to say:
Each Fall more than 50 graduate and undergraduate students from the Multimedia Photography and Design department [MPD] at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School canvas a small town in upstate New York, recording sound, writing stories and shooting photos and video.
Over twenty leading newspaper and magazine professionals from throughout the Northeast will coach students, critiquing and editing their work.
As a copy editor I was responsible for reading every single caption and summary the photographers produced. Although this took a lot of concentration and time, it was a great experience.
The atmosphere at the Skaneateles fire house was electric.
There were so many Nikon cameras ($4000 a pop), Apple laptops ($$$), photographers and computer geniuses in the room that it made my head spin.
The pictures and videos were all great. I have to give a nod to Mr. Joe Blum; his video on the McGowan family was prodigious.
On Saturday night, after eight hours of editing, Alex and I rendezvoused with a couple of magazine, newspaper and online journalism kids hanging out at her place.
Here are some pictures from the weekend:
- east coast paper boy
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