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For the last three years, Microsoft has invited photo professionals to its campus in Redmond, Washington, for a Pro Photo Summit. Another summit was scheduled for this July. But after surveying participants and finding many of them were unwilling to spend money on travel, Microsoft called off the event.
"We just thought [...]
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General Motors has stopped paying advances to photographers who shoot its ads, according to a photographer who has done work for the car maker.
GM (through its ad agencies) has asked photographers to officially accept or reject a set of new payment terms. The new terms say GM will "typically" pay ad [...]
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We know a lot of you are enjoying our other blog, the PDN Photo of the Day. Today, as a change of pace, we posted not one photo, but 14.
With all the talk about whether America is entering another "depression," we decided to take a day to explore the
influence [...]
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Early this year a group of young photographers came into the PDN offices to introduce themselves and their year-old collective, Luceo Images. As six photographers operating in different parts of the world, David Walter Banks, Kendrick Brinson, Matt Eich, Kevin German, Tim Lytvinenko and Matt Slaby formed Luceo in an effort [...]
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Our colleagues at Editor & Publisher have a story about a lawsuit in Wisconsin concerning press coverage of school athletics. At issue: Should a newspaper be allowed to broadcast streaming Internet video of a high school football playoff? While there's room for debate here (just ask a TV person), the lawsuit [...]
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What’s the best part of flying on Air Force One? The swag.
Everyone who rides the presidential jet, including members of the press, receive a flight certificate signed by the presidential pilot. The most coveted travel souvenir, says Reutters senior staff photographer Larry Downing, is a box of Presidential M&Ms. Each [...]
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This story on the front page of today's Los Angeles Times is interesting: It's Web 101 for this experienced intern.
A reporter followed the workday of Lois Draegin, a 55-year-old editor who lost her six-figure job at TV Guide and who is now working as an unpaid intern for WowOwow.com, a [...]
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Alan Meckler, who no longer has anything to do with the photo industry, lashes out at Corbis today on his blog: Corbis Does Not Get It.
Meckler has some nerve, given the recent performance of the stock agency he used to run, Jupiterimages. Jupiterimages was just acquired by Getty Images, which bought [...]
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Roxana Saberi, a freelance journalist who has worked for the BBC, Fox News and NPR, has been detained by the government of Iran for over a month, according to various news reports.
Last week, Saberi's father told NPR he last heard from her February 10, when she called to say she [...]
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Since Tuesday, when The New York Times reported Annie Leibovitz had pawned the rights to all her photographs, there’s been a lot of coverage in other publications around the world. And why not? It’s interesting.
We got our hands on the document that shows exactly what Leibovitz put up in exchange for [...]
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Photojournalists, who often love to hate newspapers, actually liked the Rocky Mountain News. Here at PDN, we named them one of the Best Newspapers to Shoot For in 2005 and profiled photo director Janet Reeves as one of PDN's Players in 2006. Not that our affection helped. The Rocky is shutting [...]
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The cover photo on the Rocky Mountain News's final edition is by Joe Mahoney.
Here's the Rocky's Web site, which is running a 21-minute video feature about the closing of the paper.
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A British TV program found a man in Somerset, U.K., who claimed to be a professional photographer by using other photographers' pictures from Corbis as his own work. A story on the BBC web site says:
"Inside Out West found Mark Stothard, 40, of Minehead, Somerset, was claiming leading picture agency photographs [...]
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This is shaping up to be the year of content sharing – media companies pooling their resources. Today, Editor & Publisher is reporting that five large newspapers in the northeast are about to announce a content sharing agreement. The "Northeast Consortium" papers will share stories, graphics and photographs. The newspapers involved [...]
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In an announcement today, Getty Images says it will award two ,000 photography grants to support work done to help non-profit organizations. Photographers who wish to apply have until April 15. Winning photographers can use the money to fund a photo project for a non-profit group, or choose to have all [...]
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Corbis has leased a 27,000-square-foot office in New York City and plans to move in this summer, according to several real estate publications (including GlobeSt.com). The space Corbis just leased is at 250 Hudson Street, near the Holland Tunnel. It's right around the corner from Getty Images's New York office at [...]
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PhotoShelter, in a smart effort to promote its online services for photographers, just released the results of a survey about photo buying habits. It surveyed more than 550 photo buyers, asking about buying trends and how buyers felt about various designs for photo web sites.
The answers are useful at showing [...]
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Responding to a backlash over Facebook's aggressive terms of use, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a posting last night that Facebook will undo the recent changes it made and begin hammering out a new document. A member uproar ensued after Facebook revised its terms of use with language that seemed to [...]
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The ,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography is open for entries. Details on how to apply are in the press release below. The grant deadline will be May 15 – two months earlier than usual, to accommodate the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund's 30th anniversary celebration.
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There has been tremendous interest in photographer Vincent Laforet's early adoption of high-def video. (See our story from last year about his work with the Canon EOS 5D Mark II.) For the past couple of weeks, Laforet has been blogging about a HD video project he's shooting of surfer Jamie O'Brien.
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