AXIOS Monday May 19, 2025
The number of people with full-time equivalent jobs as digital creators in the U.S. jumped from 200,000 in 2020 to 1.5 million in 2024, according to a new report. The study, which is published every four years by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and written in conjunction with Harvard Business School professor emeritus John Deighton, found that creator jobs have grown 7.5x since 2020, while creator media revenue is growing five times the rate of the traditional media sector. Creator job growth is driven by new tools and services that have lowered the bar of entry for making and monetizing online content, notes Axios.
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David Schonauer Monday May 19, 2025
The opening of photographer Issac Wright's exhibition at the Robert Mann Gallery in New York City last week didn't go as planned. Wright, who goes by the name Drift and is known for climbing tall
buildings and taking vertiginous images from his high perches, was on hand for his first solo show, but so were four New York police officers, who arrested him and … Read the full Story >>
WIRED Friday May 16, 2025
United States Customs and Border Protection is asking tech companies to send pitches for a real-time face recognition tool that would take photos of every person in a vehicle at a border crossing, including anyone in back seats, and match them to travel documents, according to a document recently posted in a federal register. The agency, which already has a face-recognition tool “operating in the air, sea, and land pedestrian environments," says it now wants to bring it to “the land vehicle environment,” notes Wired.
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Vogue Friday May 16, 2025
Denise Stephanie Hewitt first photographed the Met Gala in New York City for Vogue at age 19. The recent 2025 Met Gala was her fifth year photographing at the event—she’s the youngest photographer to have ever been commissioned to do so—and she made the most of the opportunity, notes the magazine. “I still get chills each year I get the email asking me to photograph it,” says the Gen-Z, Brooklyn-born photographer, who, notes Hypebae, celebrated her 23rd birthday among the glittering personages at the gala.
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