CNN Friday May 3, 2024
Student journalists tasked with covering violent unrest on college campuses across the US have been arrested and barred access as police moved in to crack down on pro-Palestinian protesters who have set up encampments and barricaded themselves inside buildings, notes CNN. At Columbia University in New York, journalists said they were barred from covering the unrest Tuesday night; at the University of California, Los Angeles, student journalists reporting on violent clashes between protesters said they were assaulted and gassed. Read the full Story >>
The Guardian Friday May 3, 2024
As protests in support of Palestine sweep university campuses across the US, student journalists from New York to Texas have documented the reality inside the encampments, notes The Guardian, which talked with nine of them about their experiences. “I wanted to get a shot of how police were making arrests so people could see what was happening on the ground. Adrenaline was running high because I was so close to where the police and the line of protesters met,” says Christian Harsa of Ohio State University. Read the full Story >>
Aperture Friday May 3, 2024
On April 30, Aperture hosted a ceremonial ground-breaking at 380 Columbus Avenue to mark the commencement of construction of its new permanent home on New York City’s Upper West Side. Award-winning architecture firm Levenbetts is adapting the ground floor and an additional level of a historic 1886 structure into ten thousand square feet of innovative and accessible new space for events and art installations, a bookstore, and reimagined office and production areas.
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David Schonauer Friday May 3, 2024
Reports of the demise of the camera market seem to have been exaggerated. While smartphones remain the number-one photo-capture device, camera sales in Japan grew in 2023 for the first time in 13
years. According to research conducted by GfK Japan and shared by Nikkei Japan, digital camera sales in 2023 hit 1.2 million units in Japan, with a 9 percent increase for interchangeable-lens … Read the full Story >>
