sports photography

  1. Windows 11 Newsroom Workflow: End-to-End Sports Galleries and Obituaries

    A single sports image page and a quietly written obituary tell a bigger story about how local journalism actually gets made—and for many newsrooms, the glue holding that story together is a Windows PC on a deadline desk, a sideline laptop on battery power, and a carefully tuned workflow that...
  2. Metadata Matters in Local Sports Photos: IPTC/XMP, EXIF, and Verification

    A single frame published on a local page — a wire or staff photograph labeled “Panthers Texans Football” and paired with a terse, weather‑style line — crystallized a familiar but avoidable editorial tension: vivid visual storytelling versus the metadata and verification practices that protect...
  3. Sports Photo Metadata Mastery: Verification, Attribution, and Local Coverage

    A striking staff or wire photograph labeled "Panthers Texans Football" ran on a regional page alongside a short, weather‑style caption — a small editorial choice with outsized implications for verification, metadata stewardship, and audience perception. Background Local and regional newsrooms...
  4. Rams vs Cowboys Preseason 2025: Frame, Facts, and Rostering Depth

    The photograph and short caption that ran with the Bluefield Daily Telegraph’s “Ravens Cowboys Football” item compress a noisy preseason audition into a single, sharable moment — but the fuller story behind the image is about evaluation, risk management, and how local visuals steer national...
  5. Rams 31, Cowboys 21: Preseason Depth, QBs, and the Power of a Photo

    The preseason scoreboard read Rams 31, Cowboys 21, but the real story from the night was less about a final number and more about what the game revealed — and what a single Herald Journal photograph amplified — about depth, injury risk, and narrative framing during live NFL auditions. Background...
  6. Sports Photo Metadata: Licensing, EXIF/IPTC/XMP, and Editorial Ethics

    The single photograph credited to the Idaho State Journal from the Patriots–Commanders preseason gallery is a small, vivid example of how modern sports images travel, carry hidden technical metadata, and create both editorial value and legal risk for anyone who downloads, republishes, or edits...
  7. Patriots vs Commanders: Photo Metadata & Licensing in Sports Media

    Photographs from the Patriots–Commanders matchup that appeared across regional outlets this week underscore a familiar truth: in modern sports coverage, a single image is equal parts journalism, metadata package, and a potential legal — or privacy — landmine for anyone who downloads, edits, or...
  8. Jacksonville State Spring Game Highlights: Transfer Talent, Defensive Grit & Steak Wins

    Jacksonville State Gamecocks concluded their spring football festivities with enough drama and off-season hope to fill a tailgate lot, as Charles Kelly’s inaugural spring game ultimately proved one thing: steak dinners still motivate college athletes, even more than NIL collectives. In the...