{"id":7982,"date":"2004-09-30T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/09\/30\/the-best-of-the-olympics-athens-2004\/"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"the-best-of-the-olympics-athens-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/09\/30\/the-best-of-the-olympics-athens-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best of the Olympics: Athens 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/20040923-ping_pong.jpg\" alt=\"Ping pong\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaljournalist.org\">Digital Journalist<\/a> has an interesting article about Athens 2004 Olympics.  The article is written from photojournalist&#8217;s point of view.  It tells about all the problems journalists faced during the games, what was organized good, what could have been better, and things like that.  This is a must read for anyone who is planning to cover major sporting events, such as next Olympics in China.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaljournalist.org\/issue0409\/olympics_thumbs.html\">gallery of excellent images<\/a> from the Athens Olympics.  So far, this is the best I&#8217;ve seen covering that event.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Digital Journalist has an interesting article about Athens 2004 Olympics. The article is written from photojournalist&#8217;s point of view. It tells about all the problems journalists faced during the games, what was organized good, what could have been better, and things like that. This is a must read for anyone who is planning to cover &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/09\/30\/the-best-of-the-olympics-athens-2004\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Best of the Olympics: Athens 2004<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-7982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-photography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":155831,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2023\/07\/23\/lavrion-corfu-sailing-day-4-antikyra-to-missolonghi\/","url_meta":{"origin":7982,"position":0},"title":"Lavrion &#8211; Corfu sailing: Day 4 &#8211; Antikyra to Missolonghi","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 23, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The weather forecasts for today was not very certain. 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