On June 25, Jodie Ginsberg, the chief executive of the Committee to Protect Journalists, announced that the organization was reexamining the names in its database of journalists killed in the Israel-Gaza war. "CPJ condemns in no uncertain terms the misrepresentation of combatants as journalists or media workers--or the misuse of 'Press' insignia," Ginsberg noted. The announcement quickly set off a widespread debate about whether one of the world's most influential press advocacy groups was caving to political pressure, noted the Columbia Journalism Review.

  While epoch-defining abstract expressionist artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Barnett Newman hosted  photographers shooting their studio actions for features in LIFE magazine during the 1950s and ‘60s, the gallerist who put them on the map, Betty Parsons, stayed home and made paintings. Most of this work never saw light during her lifetime. But yesterday, a major exhibition, Betty Parsons: An Expanded World,opened at the Hessel Museum of Art, Bard Col...