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Jehad Nga at the Frontline Club
Jehad Nga showed his work and spoke with BBC Africa correspondent Rob Walker Friday evening (5 September, 730pm) as part of a series of conversations about Somalia at the Frontline Club. The talk can be viewed HERE ... (62 minutes).Labels: Gallery/slideshow, Issues
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Freelancers hostage in Somalia
"Four media workers have been held hostage by an unknown group roughly 12 miles (20 kilometers) west of Mogadishu. Freelance journalists Amanda Lindhout, Nigel Brennan, and Abdifatah Mohamed Elmi, along with driver Mahad Clise, were returning from interviews with Somali refugees at Celasha Biyaha when they were kidnapped along the Afgoye-Mogadishu road. The Australian Federal Police and Australia and Canadian diplomats are working with the Somali government to help with hostage release efforts". ...more
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Media Storm and RockyMountain News Cover Democratic Convention
At the Brain Storm workshop in Dalian, July 2008, Storm told Photo MA students he was hoping to start covering major events with Media Storm. The Democratic convention is the first MM of its kind and can be viewed online HERELabels: Gallery/slideshow, Issues
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Telegraph Claims UK the hardest Place to Shoot in Public
"Has our increasingly paranoid society declared war on the humble 'weekend snapper'?An amateur photographer is chased by the police after taking pictures on the seafront; another man is frogmarched away when using his camera in a town centre. Since when did carrying a camera in public provoke so much suspicion and hostility? Sam Delaney reports. Illustration by Ulla Puggaar."...moreLabels: Issues
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42 Reasons why Newspapers are Dead
Ex LA Times journalist blogs about the future of newspapers ...moreLabels: Issues
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Pricing Multimedia Stories
Interesting string on lightstalkers about pricing MM stories...moreLabels: Issues
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Framing Time and Place
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Love Him or Loathe Him
From current Photo MA student Dave Wyatt -
Interview with Mr Parr, who looking at his recent work seems to be
doing his best work since the 80s at the mo and doing interesting
things in magazines. Call it a brief respite from Multimedia... :) A
lot of it is fairly obvious (like shooting your own ideas then
pitching them, being proactive etc) but I like his idea of dressing
documentary up as entertainment to widen it's readership. Love him or
hate him he remains one of the most successful documentary
photographers of all time. ..moreLabels: General, Issues
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MP's motion backing public photography in UK
"An Early Day Motion has been tabled by an MP fighting to protect the rights of photographers. Former journalist Austin Mitchell, Labour member for Great Grimsby, put forward the motion entitled 'Photography in Public Areas', calling for support for snapping away in public. He has so far been backed with 107 signatures. In it, he calls on the House to "deplore the apparent rise in the number of reported incidents in which the police, police community support officers or wardens attempt to stop street photography""...more Labels: Issues
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Olympic Reporting
"Journalists are having trouble going about their work in advance of the Beijing Olympics. Several reporters, photographers and TV camera operators have suffered harassment, from both police and citizens."...moreLabels: Issues
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4,000 U.S. Deaths, and a Handful of Images
"If the conflict in Vietnam was notable for open access given to journalists — too much, many critics said, as the war played out nightly in bloody newscasts — the Iraq war may mark an opposite extreme: after five years and more than 4,000 American combat deaths, searches and interviews turned up fewer than a half-dozen graphic photographs of dead American soldiers." ...moreLabels: Issues
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Flickring Out
What will become of photojournalism in an age of bytes and amateurs? ...moreLabels: Issues, Photojournalism
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Multimedia Seminar
 Brian Storm (Media Storm), Dan Chung (The Guardian), Dirck Halstead (Digital Journalist) and David Campbell (Durham Advanced Centre for Photography) all met in Dalian, China for a four day workshop/seminar with Photo MA students to discuss multimedia visual journalism as a future model for photojournalists. The workshop finished with a seminar debate (pictured right) which was recorded and will be available from this site soon.Labels: Issues, Photo MA News, Photojournalism
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Manipulated Videos Become More Common
"A bumper week for photographic manipulation: Iran throws in an extra
missile for good measure; Poynter reports on some old-fashioned
manipulation in a photograph from Zimbabwe, and the Chigago Tribune
suggests we'll need to be watching video more critically as well." ...more
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Photojournalists Are Getting Artsier -- But Is That What Audiences Want?
"Walter Benjamin once suggested that there is no single, absolute, or correct interpretation of a picture, since every viewer brings something unique to the process. At the same time, photojournalistic conventions often constrain how a viewer responds emotionally and intellectually to pictures." ...moreLabels: Issues
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Shenyang Festival Disaster
 
Photo MA students exhibited and visited the first Shenyang international photojournalism festival held in North East China. It is not clear what happened during the festival but unofficially it seemed to have been canceled on the day of its opening. There were few visitors, lights were left off in the exhibition halls and images appeared mixed up in the wrong exhibitions. Above left is a picture of the student exhibition, above right are three images rescued by students Rui Pestana and Nick Kozak of the earthquake which appeared in the wrong exhibition with the wrong captions.Labels: Issues, Photo MA News, work
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The Cloud is Falling
" Vincent Laforet says there's plenty of blue sky above - and the possibilities are endless." Laforet discusses the future of photojournalism and how to survive the current changes....moreLabels: Issues
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Amateur Photographers are Shaking up the Professional Industry
"Amateur photographers are shaking up the global market for licensed images far quicker than video is for broadcasters, and even Bill Gates's privately held image bank, Corbis, is having to reinvent itself." ...moreLabels: Issues
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Who Murdered Trent Keegan?
"Whoever beat Trent Keegan to death probably wanted his computer. But why would robbers leave money in his pockets?" ...moreLabels: Issues
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A growing number of journalism schools lead students on reporting trips abroad
"At a time when foreign correspondent jobs are disappearing. Still, professors argue that teaching their students the skills for international reporting is more important than ever. "We're kind of bound and determined to prepare a generation of students who are going to be good journalists out there in a global age," says Alan Weisman, an associate professor at the University of Arizona." ...moreLabels: Issues
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Media Freedom at Olympics Pledged
"China will abide by regulations to allow foreign reporters freedom to report at next month's Olympic Games, one of the country's top leaders was quoted as saying Friday." ...moreLabels: Issues
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Newspapers Plan Corrections Over Iran Missile Photo
 "It was an arresting image: Four missiles arcing skyward in near perfect symmetry, perhaps a prelude to war. It was ominous. It was also a fake".... more © Sepah News via AP (top) and AFP (bottom) Labels: Issues
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China sacks officials over faked big cat snaps
China has given more than a dozen government officials their marching orders over faked photographs of the highly-endangered South China tiger, Xinhua reports.  Last October, forestry officials in Zhenping county, northern Shaanxi province, published the photos citing them as evidence of the tiger's survival. The animal had not been seen in the wild since 1964, but suddenly posed for local farmer Zhou Zhenglong's digital camera (see pic), earning the photographer a reward of 20,000 yuan (£1,450).
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Protecting Photographs on the Web from being Stolen
"Digital thieves swipe your photos - and profit from them In an age when digital photography rules and people post their images online, how can we stop our photos being stolen?" ...more
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Shooting The Messenger
"Shooting the Messenger, Al Jazeera's documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, investigates how international reporters became targets." Watch it HERE
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Internet Ad Spending to Overtake Radio in 2008
"Internet advertising spending will surpass radio this year, with about 9.5 percent of ad budgets worldwide allocated to online media, said Steve King, head of Publicis Groupe SA's ZenithOptimedia unit." ...moreLabels: Issues
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Can Visa pour l’Image Remain Relevant?
"Without mentioning any names, some of the top ten photographers in the world today, including war photographers, “live in a garret”, surviving on less than 1000 euros a month, struggling to make ends meet.""...more (students in China will need a proxy)
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Photo Tampering Throughout History
A new website documents photo tampering throughout history demonstrating the photoshop clone tool is no new idea...moreLabels: Issues
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Getty Memo Shows Impact of Web, Microstock
In preparation for a big shareholder vote, Getty Images has been releasing tidbits of previously confidential financial information....moreLabels: Issues, Photojournalism
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Time Magazine Use Microstock on Cover
Time Magazine have used a $1 picture on their front cover for the first time. Is this the start of something bigger?....moreLabels: Issues
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Photography in Public Places
"Since 9/11, there has been an increasing war on photography. Photographers have been harrassed, questioned, detained, arrested or worse, and declared to be unwelcome. We've been repeatedly told to watch out for photographers, especially suspicious ones. Clearly any terrorist is going to first photograph his target, so vigilance is required." ...moreLabels: Issues
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The Complete Guide To Stealing News Stories
Rules laid out of what you can borrow from other people's work and what, in the media, is regarded as stealing....moreLabels: Issues
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Alisa Miller: Why we know less than ever about the world
"Alisa Miller, head of Public Radio International, talks about why -- though we want to know more about the world than ever -- the US media is actually showing less. Eye-opening stats and graphs." ...moreLabels: Issues
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Doctored Photo On Daily News Cover Causes Stir
"A photo printed on the front cover of the Daily News is causing a stir.The cover shows Jocelyn Kirsch, the "Bonnie" in the Philadelphia "Bonnie and Clyde" identity-theft ring, lounging in a bathing suit.However, the photo also shows a house-detention bracelet on Kirsch's leg that was edited into the photo. In the original photo, Kirsch never wore an ankle bracelet."...moreLabels: Issues
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Another Hoax
Another photoshop hoax, but this time featuring a man jumping between two rocks carrying his camera and tripod ...moreLabels: Issues
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BBC Apologise for Citizen Picture Mistake
"The BBC is to make an on air apology after admitting that it broadcast a picture which it claimed was of dozens of people killed by the devastating Burmese cyclone, but which instead was taken in Sumatra during the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004"....moreLabels: Issues
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Camera Noise Leaves a Unique Signature
"If you take enough images with your digital camera, they can all be compared together and a unique signature can be determined. This means that even when you think that you are posting a photo anonymously to the internet, you are actually providing clues for the government to better tell who you are. The larger the sample size of images they have, the easier it is them to track down images coming from the same camera. Once they know all the images are coming from the same camera, all they then have to do is find that camera and take a picture to confirm it beyond a reasonable doubt." ...moreLabels: Issues
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Jehane Noujaim speaks about the power of the image
"In this hopeful talk, 2006 TED Prize winner Jehane Noujaim unveils her wish: a global acceptance of diversity, mediated through the power of film. The first step? Getting people to understand each other. In 2003, Noujaim gained access to both sides of the story of the Iraq war for her film Control Room, a dichotomy she illustrates with provocative clips of Al Jazeera journalist Sameer Khader and U.S. press officer Josh Rushing. Noujaim ends by outlining her plans for Pangea Day, an event in which people all over the world can watch the same films at the same time"....moreLabels: Issues
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Flickr the new form of Photography Art
"Rebekka Guoleifsdottir, one of Flickr’s most popular photographers, is the leading exponent of the site’s style. ... Tellingly, she learned to work Flickr before she became proficient with a camera. She discovered how to create the minicollections called “photostreams”; how to create images that would look good shrunk, in “thumbnail” form; and how to flirt with the site’s visitors in the comments area to keep them coming back." ...moreLabels: Issues
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Photographer's Accussed of Terrorism
"Misplaced fears about terror, privacy and child protection are preventing amateur photographers from enjoying their hobby, say campaigners"...moreLabels: Issues
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Cover Girls
It appears, according to new research, that men's titles newsstand magazine sales are still determined by who appears on the cover. An aging De Niro had the lowest sales whereas a scantily clad Angelina Jolie was the highest ...moreLabels: Issues
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Free China Art Journal Download
"A special issue published in partnership with the Chelsea Programme, Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London in anticipation of China Now, Britain’s largest festival of Chinese arts. A survey issue it asks: what place is there for critical voices within current hegemonic interests in China and contemporary Chinese Art?" ...moreLabels: Issues
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Vogue Cover called Racist
Annie Leibovitz's cover image for Vogue that looks too similar to a King Kong poster is slammed for being racist...moreLabels: Issues
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Shooting Still and Video
"Kevin Launius [pictured], a staff photographer at the Grants Pass (Ore.) Daily Courier, is one of thousands of small and mid-sized circulation news photographers who are facing the challenge of adapting to producing content for both online and print editions of their newspapers. Launius has mixed feelings about having to work with both still pictures and video." ...moreLabels: Issues, Photojournalism
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The Internet Effect on News
Time magazine blogged discussion on the future of internet news ...moreLabels: General, Issues
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You Can't Picture This
A short video discussing the rights of photographers to shoot on the streets on the UK....moreLabels: Issues, Photojournalism
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Getty Sells for $2.4 Billion
Getty Images, the world’s biggest pictures and video distributor, agreed Monday to sell itself to the private equity firm Hellman & Friedman for $2.4 billion including debt. ...moreLabels: Issues
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Chinese Photoshopped Award Winners
A number of new cases of Chinese photographers photoshopping images that won awards ...moreLabels: Awards/grants, Issues
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Alamy go over the 10 million image mark
Photo stock agency, Alamy has now reached 10 million images and is now making 30 million pounds a year, but does the increase in pictures mean a smaller share of profits to the photographers ...moreLabels: Issues
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Image Banks in Trouble
Blog from The Venture Company suggest that Getty and digital Railroad may have misjudged the market...more and another article ...hereLabels: Issues
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Police warn about questioning street photographers
Humberside police have backed up officers who stopped and questioned a street photographer who they saw as acting suspiciously....moreLabels: Issues
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Millions of MySpace Photos made Available
A 17 GB Bit Torrent download has been made available of millions of pictures that have been stolen from My Space accounts and offered for free ...more
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New York Times Citizen Journalism Project
The New York Times is encouraging its readers to shoot pictures of their voting experiences at Polling stations across the country ...moreLabels: Issues, Photojournalism
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Newsday comes out high in news websites thanks to cartoons
Long Island based newspaper Newsday's website has been performing exceptionally well ranking in the top five of all newspaper websites for the second month in a row. The reason has not been attributed to innovative multimedia story telling but in fact multi media cartoons...moreLabels: Gallery/slideshow, Issues
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Getty For Sale
"Getty Images, the world's biggest supplier of photographs and movies to media and advertising companies, has put itself on the auction block and could bring in more than $1.5 billion, people briefed on the situation said." ...moreLabels: General, Issues
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YouTube Video of 21 Days to Bagdad
James Nachtwey, Robert Nickelsberg, Yuri Kozyrev and Kate Brooks talk about the Book: "21 Days to Baghdad"...moreLabels: Issues, Photojournalism
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OnRequest Images teams up with Magnum
OnRequest Images has teamed up with Magnum sending shockwaves through the photojournalist community. Many see this as a sign of increased competition to win editorial commissions. ...moreLabels: Issues, Photojournalism
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Corbis Developing New Pricing Model
Corbis has applied for a patent for a new pricing model that takes into account a number of variables to come up with an RF price....moreLabels: General, Issues
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PA supplies national video news to Newsquest regional newspapers
UK wire Agency PA is to start to supply video to regional dailies including The Bolton Evening News. This happens as part of an international trend towards using multimedia on newspaper websites....more
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Faked Tiger Images Causes Stir in China
Two images of a "functionally extinct" tiger have been causing a lot press interest in China over the last month. It looks now like the images were faked in photoshop in order to claim a reward offered by the local government for pictures of a wild tiger. ...moreLabels: Issues
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Immersive Vision Conference
The aim of the meeting is to debate how best to exploit the unique qualities of dome environments to entertain and educate our audiences. We hope to attract delegates who are content producers, science educators, digital artists, IT specialists and cognitive psychologists (amongst others) and we anticipate some lively debates! ...moreLabels: Events, General, Issues
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Shaping the Future
The NUJ have released a report looking at the pros and cons of multimedia journalism. It claims that bosses are letting current staff down by failing to invest in training ...moreLabels: Issues, Photojournalism
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7% of all New York Times hits are for Slide Shows
Vivian Schiller from the New York Times tells Beet TV in an interview than 7% of all hits on their website is now for the photography slide shows. ...moreLabels: Issues, Photojournalism
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MaryAnne Golon Interview
Director of photography at one of the world's most famous news-led magazines, MaryAnne Golon talks to John McDermott about working at Time magazine and dealing with such a responsibility in these extraordinary times ...link
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Media Boycott Rugby World Cup
AP, Reuters and AFP have boycotted the Rugby World Cup in response to the IRB's request
that, amongst other things, no more than 40 images be posted online from matches in progress, and a limit of three minutes on news conference or locker-room video posted online.
Read more here...Labels: Events, Issues, Photojournalism
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