Take compelling business news photos: Phoenix, March 21

Carlos Chavez

Visuals are everyone’s job these days, and this session on how to take compelling business-news photos will put you at ease behind the camera, as well as enhance your ability to work with photojournalists. Carlos Chavez, deputy photo editor at The Arizona Republic, will train attendees on the basics of photo composition before leading and critiquing an actual photo assignment.

This free, hands-on session is This session is part of the “Become a Multimedia Business Journalist” track at SABEW, and will be held after SABEW’s annual conference in Phoenix from 1:15 to 4:15 p.m. on Sunday, March 21. Bring your own camera or use one provided by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the site for SABEW’s conference.

Registration is limited to 20 attendees, who will go out on assignment in teams of two. Through March 1, SABEW-conference registrants will receive priority for the available slots. This session is the final one in the “Become a Multimedia Business Journalist” track, sponsored by the Reynolds Center at SABEW. Other sessions before SABEW teach how to produce a video on March 18 and look natural on air on March 19 and, during SABEW, how to create a podcast on March 20. Those who complete at least three of the four sessions will receive a Circle of Achievement award certificate, noting their accomplishment.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

1:15-2:15 p.m. – Photography 101: Chavez will provide examples of what to do and what not to do in the field.

2:15-3:15 p.m. – In the Field: Attendees will go to predetermined businesses in downtown Phoenix to shoot assignments.

3:15-4:15 p.m. – Upload and Critique: Attendees will return to the classroom for Chavez’s critique of each team’s shoot.

YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Carlos Chavez, deputy photo editor at The Arizona Republic, has 15 years of experience as a photojournalist. He has worked at the Los Angeles Times, the Fresno Bee and The Desert Sun, and he has produced several multimedia projects in Avid and Final Cut alongside reporters and photographers.

Chavez oversees photos for 21 community zones with a staff of 15 photographers, nine editors and over 50 reporters and interns. He completed a competitive multimedia-skills fellowship at the University of California Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.

He has taught photography at Grand Canyon University and has helped train The Republic’s staff in photo and multimedia.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Please do not register unless you are sincere about attending the workshop and have been given authorization by your editor to do so. Since our workshops are often oversubscribed, no-shows keep other potential registrants from attending.

This free seminar is sponsored by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. If you have any questions about the Webinar or the center, please e-mail Executive Director Linda Austin or call 602-496-9187.

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