The New York Times Monday March 4, 2024
When Vice emerged from bankruptcy last year, some observers hoped its new owners — a consortium led by the private-equity firm Fortress Investment Group — would reinvest to return the company to growth. Instead, reports The New York Times, Fortress has decided to lay off several hundred of Vice's more than 900 employees, eliminating staff from its digital publishing division. Vice has been periodically put up for sale over the last two years, as long-promised profits failed to materialize. As we noted recently, media companies have been struggling.
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White House News Photographers Association Monday March 4, 2024
New York Times photographer Doug Mills is the winner of the Photographer of the Year award in the 2024 Eyes of History competition, the annual photojournalism contest organized by the White House News Photographers Association. Mills won for a portfolio of news images. Win McNamee of Getty Images wins the Political Photo of the Year award for a shot of Rep. Jim Jordan speaking to reporters before withdrawing as a candidate for Speaker of the House as House on Oct. 13, 2023. More than 4,500 images were entered into this year’s competition.
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Editor & Publisher Monday March 4, 2024
Associated Press has named photojournalist Lucy Nicholson its next Director of Photography. Nicholson is the first woman to be hired for the job. Nicholson joins the AP from Reuters, where she has most recently led the agency’s photography in Europe, overseeing a team of 190 staff and freelance photographers in 50 countries, noted AP in a memo announcing the appointment. She was previously a staff photographer for Reuters, based in Los Angeles for 17 years. She was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography in 2019 for coverage of migrants heading to the U.S.
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Wonderful Machine Monday March 4, 2024
The fall of Roe v. Wade and the subsequent wave of abortion bans and restrictions in U.S. states have had heavy implications for the estimated 26 percent of U.S. adults with a disability. Los
Angeles-based social documentary photographer Morgan Lieberman decided to bring exposure to the contentious issue by creating portraits of queer, disabled couples while having an open dialogue about
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