Videojournalism: Multimedia Storytelling
Professor Ken Kobré directs the video and photojournalism program at San Francisco State University. His bookPhotojournalism: The Professionals' Approach, published by Focal Press-Elsevier, has been the widest selling text on photojournalism in the world since 1980. It is now in its sixth edition.Kobré is also co-author of the seventh and eighth editions of the classic basic textbookPhotography, Prentice Hall, and author ofHow to Photograph Friends and Strangers, Curtin & London. His photographs of a young Russian immigrant have been published in a children's book,L'Chaim: The Story of a Russian Émigré Boy, Little Brown. He is also the inventor and patent holder of Professor Kobré's Lightscoop®, a device that bounces the light from the pop-up flash on SLR cameras (www.lightscoop.com). Kobré is the publisher of KobreGuide to the web's best videojournalism (www.KobreGuide.com).Kobré has produced independent video documentaries includingDeadline Every Second: On Assignment with 12 Associated Press Photographers, available on Amazon.com,InsideSports IllustratedandShooting Stars at the Cannes Film Festival.