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Five of the best Tumblr news blogs
Blogging site Tumblr is growing at an incredible speed. There are now 32 million people in the US 4.5 million people in the UK visiting the site. News organisations are engaging with the community by...
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2011 Rory Peck Awards open for entries
The Rory Peck Awards, which recognises the work of freelance cameramen and women in news and current affairs, are now open for entries. The awards consist of three categories: The Rory Peck Award for...
View ArticleMEN journalists respond to news of arrested photographer
Journalists at the Manchester Evening News have responded to the news that photographer Sean Wilton was arrested after taking pictures of an incident near to the city’s magistrates’ court on Monday....
View ArticleGuardian and Citizenside team up for Tour de France photos
The Guardian is gathering spectators’ photographs from the 2011 Tour de France by partnering with citizen media agency Citizenside. The Tour de France 2011 page of the Guardian’s website features a...
View Article‘I heard the mechanic click. I knew this is not good’: Joao Silva’s speech
The New York Times blog today published in full a speech given by photojournalist Joao Silva at the Bronx Documentary Center earlier this month. Silva was severely injured after stepping on a landmine...
View ArticleSlideshow of winning images from Picture Editors Guild awards 2011
The Picture Editors Guild presented its awards last night, with Associated Press photographer Matt Dunham named as photographer of the year. Matt captured the widely distributed image of Prince Charles...
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Tool of the week for journalists – Error Level Analysis, to test if a photo...
Tool of the week: Error Level Analysis What is it? A free tool to allow you to test whether or not an image has been digitally manipulated in programmes such as Adobe Photoshop. Paste the URL of a...
View ArticleBBC: Powerful audio slideshow shows photographer’s ‘baptism of fire’
The BBC has produced a powerful audio slideshow which documents the experience of Press Association photographer Lewis Whyld when he reported on the riots in Tottenham on 6 August. The slide show,...
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Wired offers creative commons images in exchange for link
Director Tim Burton surrounded by dictaphones at Comic Con 2009, one of 50 images made available by Wired as part of its new creative commons plan. Image: Wired.com Wired.com has made what looks like a...
View ArticleBBC CoJo on the possibilities for ‘drone journalism’
The website for the BBC College of Journalism published an interesting post on Friday by BBC world affairs producer Stuart Hughes, which looked at how news organisations could use drones as...
View ArticleAFP photographer wins political photography award
The AFP has issued a release to say its photographer John MacDougall won the Rueckblende (flashback) award in Germany for 2011. The agency says this is the first time the award, which is for political...
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2012 World Press Photo winners announced
A Spanish freelance photographer’s image of a woman in Yemen, holding her wounded son in her arms, has been named the World Press Photo of the Year at the annual awards. The picture, taken by Samuel...
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Tool of the week for (photo)journalists: ZangZing
Tool of the week: ZangZing What is it? Photo storage and sharing site which is a good solution for anyone using Apple’s soon-to-be-closed MobileMe. How is it of use to journalists? This week’s tool is...
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Citizen journalism: Street Photographer of the Year announced
The winner of the Citizen Journalism Education Trust (CJET)’s Street Photographer of the Year was announced yesterday. In a release, Kheoh Yee Wai, 23, (pictured above) described his winning...
View ArticleVideo by The Times outlines thinking behind Olympic wraps and community reaction
The Times has published a video today on YouTube which hears from deputy editor Keith Blackmore, design editor Jon Hill and deputy picture editor Elizabeth Orcutt, as well as communities editor Ben...
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