New Media Matters

Photojournalists, especially those who work for newspapers, are facing big challenges. Still pictures are no longer the only media expected from photojournalists in the evolving world of publishing. Is this a blessing or a curse? Likely a little of both. We hope to make the changes a little easier to understand and to put into practice.

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  AppleInsider
  author, appleinsider.com

  Pub­lished: 03:48 PM EST (12:48 PM PST)

  Apple’s new green data cen­ter in Prineville, Ore., will be a major $250 mil­lion invest­ment in 160 acres of land for the com­pa­ny.

  The details of Apple’s arrange­ment with the city of Prinevill…

  20 Apr 2012
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  emergentfutures:

  The Next Time Someone Says the Internet Killed Reading Books, Show Them This Chart

  “Remember the good old days when everyone read really good books, like, maybe in the post-war years when everyone appreciated a good use of the semi-colon? Everyone’s favorite book was by Faulkner or Woolf or Roth. We were a civilized civilization. This was before the Internet and cable television, and so people had these, like, wholly different desires and attention spans. They just craved, craved, craved the erudition and cultivation of our literary kings and queens. 
  
  Well, that time never existed. Check out these stats from Gallup surveys. In 1957, not even a quarter of Americans were reading a book or novel. By 2005, that number had shot up to 47 percent. I couldn’t find a more recent number, but I think it’s fair to say that reading probably hasn’t declined to the horrific levels of the 1950s.”

  Full Story: The Atlantic

  (via theatlantic)

  13 Apr 2012 / 1,482 notes

• President Obama Has a Higher Tax Rate than Mitt Romney - Politics - The Atlantic Wire

  Hmmmmm…

  13 Apr 2012
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  newsweek:

  justsayjolie:

  miltnr:

  Writer/Wizard/Mall Santa/Rasputin impersonator

  Writer/Wizard/Mall Santa/Rasputin impersonator/Jolie’s personal hero

  Writer/Wizard/Mall Santa/Rasputin impersonator/Jolie’s personal hero/nwktumblr spirit animal

  13 Apr 2012 / 490 notes

• Is it creepy that a bunch of men are talking about “transvaginal probes” and “interstate abortions”?

  yahoonews:

  Yes, according to our columnist Virginia Heffernan:

  It’s time we sidelined the fine points of obstetrics from public discourse in an election year. Just as girlie magazines are marketed to male readers, public discourse that features women’s body parts should be clearly labeled — as Playboy used to be — “Entertainment for Men.”

  (via journo-geekery)

  16 Mar 2012 / 5 notes
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  newsflick:

  Actor George Clooney was arrested outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington, D.C., Friday after protesting the country’s blockade of food aid in the war-torn country. (more)

  16 Mar 2012 / 390 notes
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  atlanticinfocus:

  From A World Without People, one of 41 photos. A cat sits in a deserted street in Peleas de Abajo, in northwestern Spain, on March 8, 2012. Decades of overspending and accumulated interest on unpaid debt has put Peleas de Abajo 4.6 million euros ($6 million) in the red and the mayor claims it is now the most indebted town in Spain. The town’s debt per inhabitant is nearly 20,000 euros for every resident. (Reuters/Susana Vera)

  (via theatlantic)

  16 Mar 2012 / 1,874 notes

• This American Error

  futurejournalismproject:

  In January, This American Life broadcast an episode that explored labor practices at Foxconn, the world’s largest electronic component maker.

  Turns out, there was a lot there that wasn’t true.

  Via Public Radio International:

  This American Life and American Public Media’s Marketplace will reveal that a story first broadcast in January on This American Life contained numerous fabrications.

  This American Life will devote its entire program this weekend to detailing the errors in the story, which was an excerpt of Mike Daisey’s critically acclaimed one-man show, “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs.” In it, Daisey tells how he visited a factory owned by Foxconn that manufactures iPhones and iPads in Shenzhen China. He has performed the monologue in theaters around the country; it’s currently at the Public Theater in New York. Tonight’s This American Life program will include a segment from Marketplace’s Rob Schmitz, and interviews with Daisey himself. Marketplace will feature a shorter version of Schmitz’s report earlier in the evening…

  …Some of the falsehoods found in Daisey’s monologue are small ones: the number of factories Daisey visited in China, for instance, and the number of workers he spoke with. Others are large. In his monologue he claims to have met a group of workers who were poisoned on an iPhone assembly line by a chemical called n-hexane. Apple’s audits of its suppliers show that an incident like this occurred in a factory in China, but the factory wasn’t located in Shenzhen, where Daisey visited…

  …In Schmitz’s report, he confronts Daisey and Daisey admits to fabricating these characters. “I’m not going to say that I didn’t take a few shortcuts in my passion to be heard,” Daisey tells Schmitz and Glass. “My mistake, the mistake I truly regret, is that I had it on your show as journalism, and it’s not journalism. It’s theater.”

  We wrote about Foxconn at the time and have updated the post to reflect this retraction.

  16 Mar 2012 / 15 notes

• Occupy's Rose Parade float: 70-foot octopus of corporate greed - latimes.com

  mikelloyd:

  I can hardly wait for June in the City of Roses.

  16 Mar 2012 / 1 note

• vimeo:

  One Day on Earth - Global Screening Trailer by One Day on Earth

  One Day on Earth is the first film made in every country of the world on the same day. Now the organizers are sharing it through a free global screening on Earth Day 2012. Just head over to http://www.onedayonearth.org/screening to participate.

  16 Mar 2012 / 70 notes
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  photojojo:

  Camera Hack: Jason Bognacki a folding camera made in 1919 to the front of his Canon 5D MarkII.

  What’s even more amazing is that the photos that the nearly 100 year old lens shot are absolutely beautiful.

  Nearly 100-Year-Old Folding Camera Hacked to a Canon 5D

  via NotCot

  16 Mar 2012 / 3,771 notes

• A Sign of the Times: Encyclopaedia Britannica to End Its Print Run

  courtenaybird:

  Recent years have seen a sharp decline: The 1990 edition sold 120,000 editions in the United States — the most ever — but the 2010 edition sold just 8,000. Four thousand copies are still in a warehouse, waiting for owners. Today, the printed encyclopedia accounts for less than 1% of the company’s revenues.

  (via emergentfutures)

  16 Mar 2012 / 256 notes

• Occupy's Rose Parade float: 70-foot octopus of corporate greed - latimes.com

  I can hardly wait for June in the City of Roses.

  16 Mar 2012 / 1 note
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  newsflick:

  NewsFlick is a snapshot of today’s news. The site moves easily from updates from the Middle East to animal pictures.  If I were to pitch this tumblr blog, I’d look for stories having to do with foreign affairs. Check out the full review here.

  It’s nice to know someone has taken the time to write a review about us. A great selection of blogs by Thomas Hynes. But about the animal pictures, we all deserve to smile or go “aww”, once in a while. 

  But seriously, thanks for following fellow tumblrers. You guys make tumblr worth while. 

  16 Mar 2012 / 15 notes
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