New York media outlets are being proactive about defending their rights as they anticipate the deployment of federal law enforcement, notes the Columbia Journalism Review. Recently, Carroll Bogert, the newly named chief executive of The City, a nonprofit digital news site that covers New York, sent a letter to the local field directors of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, proposing a meeting to clarify federal policies, in the likely event that Donald Trump deployed more federal officers to New York. Mickey Osterreicher, the general counsel for the National Press Photographers Association, also signed on. "We're trying to be proactive," he said. "We're not trying to point blame."

  Frank Webster paints landscapes, from delicate, page-size watercolors to works on canvas that span close to ten feet in width. Above: Monacobreen IV, acrylic on canvas, 2024. He seems equally at home painting on a Zodiac in the frozen North—and in the even more frozen South, as he is working the finishing touches In his studio. Based on what he brings in to Studio 12 at the Art Students League, where he teaches watercolor techniques, I asked him about his library. This is...