The New York Times Monday November 22, 2021
Dotdash, a New York company specializing in digital media, reached an agreement last month to acquire Meredith, the publisher that currently owns People magazine, for $2.7 billion. When the deal goes through, People will have its second new owner in three years, notes The New York Times. Dotdash, a division of InterActiveCorp (the company behind the dating apps Tinder, OK Cupid and Match) also owns 16 online magazines. IAC executives said there were no immediate plans to scrap the print edition of the Meredith magazines. Read the full Story >>
The New Yorker Monday November 22, 2021
For nearly a decade, Philip Montgomery has chronicled the United States through this sequence of paroxysms. He went to Ferguson, Missouri, after the shooting of Michael Brown, to the epicenter of the opioid epidemic in Ohio. He covered the tumult of the presidential conventions in 2016 and the struggles of frontline medical personnel during the height of the covid pandemic in New York City. His images of an American dystopia are gathered in the new book Philip Montgomery: American Mirror, notes The New Yorker. Read the full Story >>
DIYPhotography Monday November 22, 2021
Gudsen’s newly announced Moza AirCross 3 – an update to the popular Moza AirCross 2 gimbal for small DSLRs and mirrorless cameras — is “four gimbals in one.” At least that’s how the company describes the device, which combines the classic single-handle approach along with sling mode, dual-handle mode and a grip extension for use with devices like the Slypod Pro. It’s still a fairly small lightweight gimbal that you can easily slip into a backpack, notes DIY Photography. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Monday November 22, 2021
Misinformation is everywhere on the internet. Back in 2016, the year Donald Trump was elected president, a lot of it came from a provincial North Macedonian town named Veles. Home to some 40,000
people, Veles earned a degree of notoriety at the time when tech-savvy local youth in the city created hundreds of clickbait websites posing as American political news portals. More recently
photographer … Read the full Story >>
