Citizen Journalism Website Triumphs at MediaGuardian Awards 2009

The 2009 Media Guardian Innovation Awards have awarded Demotix (www.demotix.com) a citizen-journalist newswire and photo agency the prize for best Independent Media at the ceremony which took place last night...

s.76 Counter-Terrorism Act 2008: Photojournalism or Terrorism?

From today, a photojournalist taking photographs of police officers whilst documenting political dissent or public disorder on the streets of the UK may be deemed to have committed a criminal offence...

New Book Promotes an Understanding of China through Photography

Tom Carter’s CHINA: Portrait of a People captures diversity of 33 Chinese provinces Beijing, China – As the 2008 Summer Olympics commence, all eyes are on China. But far from being the celebration...

NowPublic in the News, Don't call it, "Citizen Journalism"

NowPublic in the News, Citizen journalism site  adds new features Update found at end of this story Here is a related story that was published first on NP from mtippett NP gets Kudos from Journalism...

TheScroogeReport: Photojournalists Capture Distorted Bush

OPINION"In my lifetime I have never seen a U.S. president more ridiculed…or even more hated. Bush-bashing has become a full-time occupation for some. Take Reuters, for example. The photos on this page come...

A STORY OF MURDER IN A LITTLE TOWN IN MEXICO

BY MICHEL MARIZCOBORDERREPORTER.COMThe hit, when it went down, was perfect. The photographer was shot five times, with a tiro de gracia to the head. He collapsed by the torta stand, his five-year-old son in shock, clutching the dead body. No motive was ever given, but...

PHOTOJOURNALIST'S KILLERS GET 11 YEARS

A judge has sentenced the former police chief of a small Sinaloan town to 11 years in prison for the murder of a newspaper photographer gunned down three years ago. The sentence is the first time the legal system has prosecuted the murder of a journalist in Mexico. Gregorio...

Interview with a foreign photojournalist in China

CHINA: Portrait of a People author and photographer Tom Carter expounds on Chinese censorship, peasant riots and how insolvency helped inspire his new book in this first exclusive interview. An Interview With...

Empire Of The Sky

Cloudscape Over Carlsbad 04/02/07

"Hip Hop: By All Means Necessary" an award winning documentary

Brenda Ann Kenneally manifests a sense of fearlessness. She allows her camera to establish a relationship between her and those photographed. With complete disregard to awkwardness and rejection, Kenneally’s...

new WarShooter galleries

just wanted to note the new galleries on warshooter

Photojournalism in Crisis

"The Israeli-Hezbollah war has left many dead bodies, ruined towns, and wobbling politicians in its wake, but the media historian of the future may also count as one more victim the profession of photojournalism. In twenty years of researching and teaching about the art and...

Can you trust

We are watching us. Salam Adil, an Iraqi living in the UK has a new logo on his site. It is for the We Media conference being held by The Media Center, Reuters and the BBC. But which thousand words does this picture say? " The subject is "Do You Trust the Media?"... Now,...

Photojournalism At Its Best

Reuters Pictures of the Year, 2005 If a picture is worth a thousand words then here's 40,000 words to remind you (if that's what you want) of 2005...

NowPublic Citizen Photojournalism Awards Announced

Win cash prizes for your photography by entering the NowPublic Citizen Photojournalism Awards NowPublic wants to display the best photographic work from citizen journalists and photobloggers like you and we...

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