The Cole Digest, Feb. 15, 1995
Gentle Reader,
Our favorite newspaper technology conference, the Digital meetings put on by the National Press Photographers Association, convenes March 1-4 here in San Francisco.
The theme of this year's conference is preparing for a smooth ride on the information superhighway.
Main sessions include:
The brave new world of on-line newspapers with Kurt Foss of the University of Wisconsin.
Groundbreaking multimedia with Rick Smolan, producer of the best-selling CD-ROM "From Alice to Ocean" and the "Day in the Life" book series. He will show a preview of his soon-to-be released project "Passage to Vietnam."
Do you know the way in San Jose? David Yarnold of the San Jose Mercury News will talk about the role of leadership in building a quality visual product and how to structure the newsroom to bring about that success.
A panel of manufacturers, moderated by Shelly Katz, a Dallas-based free-lancer, will discuss their cameras and the state of this emerging technology.
AP-Leaf Users Group, moderated by Craig Porter, assistant director of photography at the Detroit Free Press.
Beginning or intermediate training in Photoshop and Quark XPress is supplemented this year with sessions on learning to cruise the Internet via World-Wide Web browsers.
Breakout sessions will include (most break-outs will be repeated more than once):
Acrobat archiving: Grady Cooper of the Alameda Newspaper Group (Oakland Tribune, et al) explains how his group is archiving whole pages in the Adobe Acrobat format, indexing the results and making the pages available for searching.
Archiving: Hal Buell and staff demonstrate the dial-up AP Preserver coming soon; browse AP's photo database, download directly by modem or order deliver via Photostream.
Calibration: Los Angeles Times Quality Assurance Manager Mike Feasey talks about the tools he uses to maintain consistency from scanner to monitor to imagesetter to press.
Image Management: Jerome McClendon of the Los Angeles Times explains what technology he uses to manage what is probably the largest desktop operation in American newspapers.
Multimedia: Brian Masck and Grover Sanschagrin of the Michigan PPA on producing your first CD-ROM.
On-line newspapers: Chris Gulker of the San Francisco Examiner tells how the newspaper strike presented an opportunity for the Electric Examiner on the Internet.
Photo editing: Eric Meskauskas explains how the New York Daily News uses Photo CD technology to scan 60-80 rolls of film a day and how it impacts the editing process.
Photo editing: Scott Henry of the Marin (Calif.) Independent Journal explains his secrets for trolling the Internet for story and picture ideas. Henry is director of photography and database coordinator for the paper.
Photography: Former National Geographic photographer Jim Sugar on how digital imaging fits into the career of a free-lancer.
Systems Editors: Jeff Adams of the Dayton Daily News moderates a trio of sessions: Introduction to Local Area Networking; Constructing an On-Ramp to the Information Highway and Newspaper
Cost for attending the conference for NPPA members is $175; non-members pay $200. Registration information is available from the Planners Network, (513) 728-4671; fax (513) 728-4672, e-mail: planners@plink.geis.com or World-Wide Web at |
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