BBC viewfinder-future of photojournalism, redux..

Worth a read. I am looking forward to reading Ciara's piece tomorrow. "Contrary to what you may have read photojournalism is alive and well in the 21st century. Photographers have unhitched themselves from the......

Something for you..

Yes, that's you. If nothing in here flicks your switch, I worry for you. And I've got enough of that, so cut it out :) Off you go. ...

McCabe, Decade @PDN.

Interesting piece over there chatting with Eamonn McCabe and his image choices for the Phaidon 'Decade' book. I had a look at the mini gallery, and there seems to be a problem...about half are......

Aaaahh…captions..

So...captions were better back in the day were they?: "This is a very important picture. Washington, D.C., Oct. 27. A photographer was covering the White House yesterday, snapping pictures of important......

The new way for BBC to respond to complaints?.

I hope this is not how they will deal with all complaints...blimey... Have  a read....Kevin has done a great job there of not......

Revolutionary man with a scarf.

This, presently, is Ben Brown's favourite tune. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiIVvoWL1Uw&feature=player_embedded...

Diederik Meijer, founder of Bite! magazine, talks to the duck.

Diederik has just launched the first ever portfolio based photography magazine for the iPad. We asked him to tell us a bit more about his reasons for doing so: ...

© Flickr/The Internet lol..

It looks like that dastardly Russian snapper has beaten me to it. I was going to do a piece on how the Daily Fail are using "© The internet" as some sort of......

WTF is a Celtic tiger?.

Leaving that question aside, amuse yourself with this clip. You have to watch to the very end, magic.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu3IT1kGavE...

Senseless Census © grab.

The U.K government's Office of National Statistics has a little photo comp going. Guess where this one is going. Yep, same old same old. BUT..this time, they have come up with a pathetic, and......

Do we need foreign correspondents?.

Asks Richard Sambrook in a report published today by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism: “For diaspora communities, news from overseas can be news from home. In increasingly multicultural societies, national identity......

Nominations please….

For the World Press Freedom prize 2011. The winner will have to go to Pyongyang to pick it up. "The purpose of the Prize, supported by the Guillermo Cano Foundation, the Nicholas B.......

(Gary)* Win a grand!.

Yep. If you're a journalism student. Great idea here from Adam Westbrook and Kingston University. "If more journalists and other creatives are to create their own careers, build innovative new businesses and spark employment......

The Hoff speaks (through broken teeth).

Hmmm...we seem to be having an International Day of Hypocrisy  (For the record, 8.12.10). Here's another tidy sliver: “It's outrageous that by paying me they can suppress the criminality of this case. As far as......

World Press freedom day 2011 moved to Pyongyang..

To avoid the backlash coming from all sides the US State Department has decided to move the venue for WPF day 2011 to Pyongyang. Phew. As Hilary Clinton said earlier today: " Some things hypocrisy......

Park reprieve !!.

St.Anne's park in Brizzle has been saved! Selling it off would be "Too contentious" according to Bristol City Council. Well, no shit sherlock.......

DCPOTY2010.

© Andiyan Lutfi "What are you looking at? Who's the duck and who's the rabbit ? You wanna look here,......

Buy VII, get one free at Costco ?.

They've got all sorts of offers down there at the minute. You can even pop in to download your memory card and have a few quick prints spat out. That could be useful in......

Tell this to Julian Assange:.

From the U.S State Department, in a press release released today announcing, er, World Press Freedom Day in 2011. "The theme for next year's commemoration will be 21st Century Media: New Frontiers, New Barriers. The......

Don’t mess with the Hoff..

"Mr Hoffman was working in a professional capacity covering the G20 protests.  Despite being out of the way and not interfering with any police operation, an inspector in full riot gear ran......