New York Friday June 13, 2025
New York magazine photography director Jody Quon has been promoted to creative director, the magazine has announced. Quon will continue to lead the magazine’s photography department while taking on a broader mandate to help shape how the publication shapes itself across all platforms. “No visual editor since the magazine’s co-founder Milton Glaser has had such a profound effect on the magazine’s journalism as Jody has in her two decades here. She is not only the best photography director in the business, but one of the most creative editorial minds anywhere,” said New York editor in chief David Haskell.
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The New York Times Friday June 13, 2025
A federal appeals court has paused a lower court’s ruling that had required the White House to allow journalists from The Associated Press to participate in covering President Trump’s daily events and travel alongside their peers from other major news outlets. AP sued after the White House began excluding the outlet’s journalists from covering Trump as part of a daily rotation system that news media companies have long used. The dispute between the news service and the White House arose because the AP refused to refer the the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, per a Trump executive order. Read the full Story >>
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Friday June 13, 2025
National Geographic Traveller (UK) has announced the winners of its 2025 photography contest, featuring a wide range of travel photography. The Grand Prize (and winner of the People category) is Justin Cliffe of Surrey, UK, for a portrait of a great-grandmother embroidering alongside her great-granddaughter, taken in Lào Cai province, Vietnam. Judges praised the “beauty and humanity” that Cliffe captured, noting that the image’s “colors, light and textures work really well.”
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David Schonauer Friday June 13, 2025
Bill Luster, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer for The Courier Journal of Louisville, Kentucky, died on May 29, the newspaper reported. He was 80. Luster won a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for
Feature Photography along with eleven other members of the Courier Journal and Louisville Times photography staff for coverage of court-ordered busing. In 1989 the news and photography staff was
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