TechCrunch Thursday December 19, 2024
Instagram is officially rolling out a new feature to give creators a way to test out new content by publishing videos that don’t appear to their followers. Called “Trial Reels, the feature allows creators to experiment with new ideas and see what performs best without having to worry about how their followers may react, notes TechCrunch. It could give Instagram an edge over TikTok, which currently doesn’t offer a way for users to experiment with different types of content.
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npr Thursday December 19, 2024
A National Institutes of Health report titled "Working to Address the Tragedy of Stillbirth,” published in March 2023, mirrored findings of an investigation by ProPublica into the U.S. stillbirth crisis, which found that more than 20,000 pregnancies are lost at 20 weeks or more every year. So notes photographer Nancy Borowick at NPR, where she describes how she came to begin her project “ The Loss Mother's Stone.” In the work, mothers share their grief from losing a child to stillbirth.
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CBS News Thursday December 19, 2024
A Texas wedding photographer has pleaded guilty to felony theft after admitting she took customers' fees and then abandoned them. In 2022, one bride, Maggie Jones, told CBS News she had hired Olivia Seymour Photography for engagement and wedding photos, paid the fee, but only received excuses from the photographer. Other clients later reported similar encounters with Seymour. A judge sentenced her to two years probation and ordered her to repay Jones and several others.
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David Schonauer Thursday December 19, 2024
The Polaroid Land Camera that brought "instant photography" to the masses first went on sale Friday, Nov. 26, 1948 in Boston. What followed has become par of photographic history: The camera became an
instant Black Friday hit and Polaroid went on to revolutionize photography. Less known are the contributions made to the development of the camera by Meroe Morse, an art history undergraduate with … Read the full Story >>
