Syria Releases Photographer Held for Six Days
Syrian authorities have released Reuters photographer Khaled al-Hariri, who had been missing since Sunday March 27, Reuters reports. Al-Hariri, a Syrian who has worked for the Reuters for more than 20...
View ArticlePhotojournalists Assaulted in Kashmir by Indian Forces
Zuma Press photographer Narcisco Contreras of Mexico and freelance photographer Showkat Shafi of India were beaten by police and government forces, then arrested while covering a violent street protest...
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Official News Agency of a Totalitarian Regime Doctored a News Photo. Imagine...
© Korea Central News Agency The photo of the funeral of Kim Jung-Il distributed by the Korean Central News Agency, the official news agency of North Korea, was stunning: Limousines driving in formation...
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Police Intimidation Watch: Beating a Photojournalist on a Lisbon Street
©REUTERS/Hugo Correia In another horrific incident demonstrating police brutality toward photojournalists, even in Western democracies, a Portuguese policeman attacked AFP photographer Patricia Melo as...
View ArticleShort Poverty Film Wins Top Multimedia Prize at BOP Competition
Photographer and director Alan Spearman of the Memphis Commercial Appeal has won the Best Use of Multimedia prize at the NPPA Best of Photojournalism contest, judges announced yesterday. Spearman won...
View ArticleReuters Phasing Out Use of Freelance Sports Photographers in North America
Reuters is phasing out its use of contract freelance sports photographers in North America and will instead rely on USA Today Sports Images, a wire service, for sideline coverage of major professional...
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John McCain’s iPhone Poker: A Brief History of Long-Lens Gotchas
©The Washington Post. Photo © Melina Mara/Washington Post Yesterday photographer Melina Mara of The Washington Post got a photo of Senator John McCain playing poker on his iPhone during the Senate...
View ArticleWhat Did Reuters Pay a Teenager to Cover the Syrian Conflict?
Molhem Barakat, the 18-year-old Reuters stringer who was killed in Syria on December 20, had told another photographer that Reuters paid him $100 a day for uploading a set of 10 pictures, according to...
View ArticleHuffPost Ignoring PhotoJ Credits For Images of Kiev Clashes
Yesterday Huffington Post UK published “29 Incredible Pictures Of Kiev Transformed Into A Warzone,” but didn’t bother to caption or credit the images to the photojournalists who are risking personal...
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White House Shuts Out Photographers Again. So Now What?
The White House released this photo of President Obama and the Dalai Lama on Feb. 21, after barring press photographers from the meeting. Now that it is evident that the White House is deaf to...
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Reuters Rules Out RAW, Experts Respond
Reuters will no longer permit its photographers and freelancers to submit RAW images for publication. As first reported by Michael Zhang, Reuters instituted the ban on RAW images in the name of both...
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Bassam Khabieh Wins Robert Capa Gold Medal for Syria Coverage
The body of a dead man is seen next to blood stains at a field hospital, after what activists said were air and missile strikes, in the Douma neighborhood of Damascus, Syria December 13, 2015. © Bassam...
View ArticleReuters Phasing Out Use of Freelance Sports Photographers in North America
Reuters is phasing out its use of contract freelance sports photographers in North America and will instead rely on USA Today Sports Images, a wire service, for sideline coverage of major professional...
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John McCain’s iPhone Poker: A Brief History of Long-Lens Gotchas
©The Washington Post. Photo © Melina Mara/Washington Post Yesterday photographer Melina Mara of The Washington Post got a photo of Senator John McCain playing poker on his iPhone during the Senate...
View ArticleWhat Did Reuters Pay a Teenager to Cover the Syrian Conflict?
Molhem Barakat, the 18-year-old Reuters stringer who was killed in Syria on December 20, had told another photographer that Reuters paid him $100 a day for uploading a set of 10 pictures, according to...
View ArticleHuffPost Ignoring PhotoJ Credits For Images of Kiev Clashes
Yesterday Huffington Post UK published “29 Incredible Pictures Of Kiev Transformed Into A Warzone,” but didn’t bother to caption or credit the images to the photojournalists who are risking personal...
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White House Shuts Out Photographers Again. So Now What?
The White House released this photo of President Obama and the Dalai Lama on Feb. 21, after barring press photographers from the meeting. Now that it is evident that the White House is deaf to...
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Reuters Rules Out RAW, Experts Respond
Reuters will no longer permit its photographers and freelancers to submit RAW images for publication. As first reported by Michael Zhang, Reuters instituted the ban on RAW images in the name of both...
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Bassam Khabieh Wins Robert Capa Gold Medal for Syria Coverage
The body of a dead man is seen next to blood stains at a field hospital, after what activists said were air and missile strikes, in the Douma neighborhood of Damascus, Syria December 13, 2015. © Bassam...
View ArticleReuters Giving $5K Grants to Develop Diverse Next Generation of Photojournalists
International news agency Reuters will launch a new series of photojournalism grants this week at Visa pour l‘Image international festival of photojournalism in Perpignan, France. In an effort to...
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