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Monday, September 1, 2008
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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Monday, July 28, 2008
Flickring Out

What will become of photojournalism in an age of bytes and amateurs? ...more

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Saturday, July 19, 2008
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.

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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Photojournalism and Why it Matters

"Jon Levy, founder of Foto8 speaks about what Foto8 stands for, how it came to be, and why photojournalism matters" video podcast. ...more

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What's Next for Photojournalism?

"There should be little doubt now that the changing media landscape has deeply affected traditional news photography. Increasingly, photographers at many newspapers are being let go or given reduced work hours. For those lucky enough to have a job, the workload has become more demanding. The bottom line is a focus on productivity, with a slight nod toward creativity as long as it doesn't interfere with getting the work out." ...more

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Monday, July 14, 2008
John Moore Special

This month the Digital Journalist, edited by MA Photo visiting lecturer Dirck Halstead, is running a speacial feature on the work of John Moore. The galleries and videos demonstrate a successful contemporary mobile journalist at work...more

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Sunday, July 13, 2008
New History of Bert Hardy

"Bert Hardy was the star troubleshooting photojournalist on Picture Post, Britain’s most influential picture magazine. But a story he shot in 1950 during the Korean war seemingly precipitated its decline and fall. On the seventieth anniversary of the launch of the mass-market weekly Graham Harrison turns back the pages of photographic history and looks forward to a reassessment of Hardy’s career." ...more

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Saturday, July 5, 2008
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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Sunday, June 15, 2008
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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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....more

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Sunday, June 8, 2008
Don McCullin Interview

The "world's greatest war photographer" Don McCullin talks to John Tusa on a BBC interview ...more

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Adam Dean Discusses Covering the Earthquake


Adam Dean talks to Digital Journalist magazine about his experiences covering the earthquake. ...more

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
Paula Bronstein Podcast

Veteran Getty photographer, based in Asia ,talks to Jonathan Klein of Getty images about her work ...more

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Thursday, May 22, 2008
World Press Photo Interviews

World Press Photo once again offer interviews of the prize winning photographers on their websites ...more

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Monday, May 5, 2008
WINNERS of the Px3 2008 PHOTO COMPETITION

"They Valley" by Simon Barnett, wins Photographer of the Year at the Px3 Photo competition in Paris....more

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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
UK Photographer Wins Sony $25,000 Award

"UK photographer Vanessa Winship has stormed to victory in the Sony World Photography Awards, bagging a $25,000 cash prize.

Vanessa was named the overall winner of the award's professional category at a ceremony held in Cannes, France.

She beat thousands of entries worldwide, receiving the Photographer of the Year title from legend Elliott Erwitt, one of the judges" ...more

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UK Photographer Wins Sony $25,000 Award

"UK photographer Vanessa Winship has stormed to victory in the Sony World Photography Awards, bagging a $25,000 cash prize.

Vanessa was named the overall winner of the award's professional category at a ceremony held in Cannes, France.

She beat thousands of entries worldwide, receiving the Photographer of the Year title from legend Elliott Erwitt, one of the judges" ...more

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John Moore Podcast

John Moore, from Getty Images talks about his award winning pictures over the last year...more

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Thursday, April 17, 2008
Reuters Take Over

Reuters has been taken over and now sports a new name ...more

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Sunday, March 30, 2008
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." ...more

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Thursday, March 20, 2008
Reuters Bear Witness to Iraq

"Through five years of war, a team of 100 Reuters correspondents, photographers, cameramen and support staff has strived to deliver news to the world from Iraq – the most dangerous country for the press. These are their personal stories, bearing witness through half a decade of conflict which has taken the lives of 127 journalists, including seven Reuters colleagues."....more

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Sunday, March 16, 2008
You Can't Picture This

A short video discussing the rights of photographers to shoot on the streets on the UK....more

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Monday, March 3, 2008
New Foto8 Website Launched

Foto8 one of the few quality journals supporting photojournalsim has moved to a much bigger publication but will only publish twice a year. It has also launched a new website at http://foto8.com

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Sunday, February 3, 2008
Guardian special report wins Journalism.co.uk multimedia storytelling competition

New multimedia competition is won by Dan Chung and Ami Vitale with a story from Mali ...more

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Sunday, January 27, 2008
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 ...more

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Preparing for the Olympics

Adam Pretty discusses how he is preparing to cover the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing & Spencer Platt talks about winning th WPP award ....more

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Monday, January 21, 2008
YouTube Video of 21 Days to Bagdad

James Nachtwey, Robert Nickelsberg, Yuri Kozyrev and Kate Brooks talk about the Book: "21 Days to Baghdad"...more

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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. ...more

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Monday, January 14, 2008
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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Tuesday, January 8, 2008
World Picture News Multimedia

WpN has recently launched a multimedia news service with stories from its network of photographers. More here

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Adam Dean covers Bhutto Assasination

Past MA student Adam Dean was one of only a few photographers to have been covering the Bhutto rally at the time she was assassinated. His pictures can be found by visiting his agency site http://www.worldpicturenews.com/web/ and doing an image search on Dean and Bhutto.

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Tuesday, January 1, 2008
New York Times Picture of the Year

The New York Times have posted their pictures of the year with some voice commentary by winning photographers. ...more

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Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Getty Images Starts Music Library

Getty Images have started to sell stock music online as well as their picture archive. "Every Image has a soundtrack and we've got yours" they say! ...more

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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
UNICEF photo of the Year 2007

The American photographer Stephanie Sinclair is the winner of the international photo competition “UNICEF Photo of the Year”. ...more

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Sunday, December 9, 2007
Scottish Press Photography Awards

Entries can now be submitted online for the 2007 First ScotRail Press Photography Awards.

Categories include Photographer of the Year, Picture Essay of the Year, Features Photographer of the Year, Sports Photographer of the Year, Local Photographer of the Year, Young Photographer of the Year with a total prize fund of almost £5,000....more

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Photo Histories

Photo Histories a new website is launched to "will become a home for entertaining and thought provoking stories about photography and a vehicle that, by looking into the past with a spirit of enquiry, might begin to help us map some sort of path into the uncertain future of the medium." ...more

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Thursday, December 6, 2007
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 ...more

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Thursday, November 22, 2007
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. ...more

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Sunday, November 18, 2007
VII signs Bleasdale and Pagetti

Photo agency VII have signed Marcus Bleasdale and Franco Pagetti as it slowly starts to grow its numbers beyond the original seven. There is more on theis story on the PDN website ...here meanwhile one of the original members Alexandra Boulat (1962-2007) is remembered in a requiem podcast on the Daylight magazine website ...more

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Monday, November 12, 2007
EPUK Asks the Key Question

EPUK asked ten photographers what they wished they knew when they first started as photographers. They got ten different answers ...more

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Saturday, November 10, 2007
World Press Masterclass Lecture

Respected Contact and Time Magazine photographer David Burnett talks at foam in Amsterdam to the masterclass group of this year. The video is only available until the 25th November. ...more

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Thursday, November 8, 2007
Reuters Ambushed by the Taliban in Afghanistan

Reuters photographer Finbarr O'Reilly tells the story of being under fire in Afghanistan and how he responded ....more

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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
China Smokestack

Excellent multimedia story on New York times website. ...more

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Colin Mcpherson Masterclass

Masterclass created with soundslides on how Colin went about photographing a documentary project on fishing in Scotland ...more

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Stand Up For Photojournalism

NUJ Exhibition celebrating 100 years of photography goes online....more

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Thursday, October 25, 2007
Alexandra Boulat: A Tribute

Time magazine have put together a tribute to Alexandra Boulat who died last month. ....more

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Better Tomorrows for Rwanda

Photographer Jonathan Torgovnik's work in Rwanda is helping to educate genocide's youngest victims, and making sure we never forget. ...more

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Sunday, October 14, 2007
Getting Dirty with Reuters

Reuters photographer talks about working with the press pack covering the McCartney and Mills case ...link

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
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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Photo Editor's Anonymous Blog

A Photography Director based in New York City who can't give his identity for fear of his job. blog. http://aphotoeditor.com/

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Friday, October 12, 2007
VII War Videos

PBS: THE WAR IN IRAQ THROUGH A PHOTOGRAPHERS EYES is a three part film about VII photographers covering the war in Iraq. See it HERE

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Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Akash wins Gordan Park's prize

G.M.B.Akash a student from Bangladesh photography school Pathshala's first batch wins first prize for his photo titled "Passengers without Ticket" in the prestigious Gordon Parks Photography Competition 2007. More work by Akash can be seen at www.majorityworld.com and www.gmb-akash.com.

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Video Advice from Perpignan

Various professionals give advice on making it in the photojournalism business. More Here

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Thursday, September 13, 2007
Campaign to stop Getty's $49 image pricing

There is an email campaign under way to put a stop to Getty's plan to start selling images for $49 for web use.

If you feel strongly about this and how it may effect the industry go and add your name!

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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
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...

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Sunday, September 9, 2007
Exciting New Acency Announced

NOOR Images, a new collective photo agency was announced at Perpignan this week.

Their nine highly regarded photographers are:

Samantha Appleton (U.S.)
Jodi Bieber (South Africa)
Philip Blenkinsop (Australia)
Pep Bonet (Spain)
Jan Grarup (Denmark)
Stanley Greene (U.S.)
Yuri Kozyrev (Russia)
Kadir van Lohuizen (The Netherlands)
Francesco Zizola (Italy)

Certainly one to watch...

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Thursday, September 6, 2007
World Press Photo Exhibits at Pingyao

The World Press Photo Exhibition 2007 will be on display in Pingyao next week!

The exhibition will be part of the Pingyao International Photo Festival and will be on display from 19 to 25 September.

The Pingyao International Photo Festival is China's largest photo festival and watch this space for details of the MA Photography's presence there next week...

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Monday, September 3, 2007
Paulo Pellegrin: Double Blind Lebanon 2006

Have a look at the slideshow on YouTube of Paulo Pellegrin's images from the Lebanon conflict from last summer.

The slideshow promotes his new book "Double Blind".

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Saturday, September 1, 2007
Magnum: New Blood Exhibition

Magnum are running a print sales exhibition entitled 'New Blood':

"This exhibition brings together the work of Magnum's new blood; five Associate Members: Antoine D'Agata, Jonas Bendiksen, Trent Parke, Mark Power and Alec Soth. As a group, they embody the evolution of documentary photography, from traditional photojournalism to a more art-based practise, and reflect the diversity that continues to distinguish the agency."

Stills Gallery, NSW Australia
22 August - 22 September 2007

For those of us not in Australia, you can view over 50 images in a slideshow on the Magnum website.

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Thursday, August 16, 2007
Is Western Media Coverage of China Stale and Cliched?

Media Talk: Has western coverage of the China story become stale and cliched?

In interesting talk on the state and effect of Western media's coverage of China at The Frontline Club in London on August 23rd at 7:30pm.

Guest speakers include:

Rob Gifford – former China correspondent for NPR, author of China Road: a Journey into the Future of a Rising Power.

Duncan Hewitt - BBC correspondent in China from 1997 to 2002. He now writes for Newsweek and other publications from Shanghai, and is the author of Getting Rich First: Life in a changing China.

Catherine Sampson – former China correspondent for The Times , author of The Pool of Unease.

Lifen Zhang - Editor, FTChinese.com, Financial Times. Previously worked for the BBC as a journalist, producer, news editor and journalism trainer.

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Interview With China Photographer

There is an interesting interview with Tom Carter a travel photographer who has been travelling in China for 4 years working on a new book China: Portrait of a People. He talks about his experiences avoiding state censorship, overzealous officials and gives some tips on travelling in the most populous country on earth!

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Monday, August 13, 2007
Editor's & Publishers Photo Contest

The Editor and Publisher’s 8th annual Newspaper Photos of the Year contest closes it’s registration on September 14. They are accepting photos published in a newspaper or web site since Oct. 1, 2006. For details about the contest and registration please check here.

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Sunday, August 12, 2007
Jeff Mermelstein video

Have a look at a recent Media Matters video report with footage, interviews and pictures of Jeff Mermelstein and Kathy Ryan shooting on the streets of New York.

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Saturday, August 4, 2007
Iraq Multi-Media Slideshow

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Rick Loomis has covered the Iraq war for the Los Angeles Times and you can see the multimedia slide-show with narration of his time in Iraq since the beginning of the war through to the effect it is having on returning soldiers.

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Friday, August 3, 2007
Bond Producer Offers 20K Bursary

James Bond producer, Michael G Wilson is offering an annual £20,000 bursary for talented young photographers.

Wilson is chairman of the National Media Museum's trustees who are managing the awards. Read more about it here.

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Thursday, August 2, 2007
Magnum Snubs Olympics

Magnum photos have complained to the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) that their proposed contracts for access and photography of the development for the 2012 Olympic Park in London is unworkable. Read more here.

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Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Inside AP

Interesting multi-media slideshow about the inner workings of AP