By
David Schonauer Tuesday June 10, 2025
After World Press Photo suspended Nick Ut's credit for the iconic Vietnam War photo known as Napalm Girl, journalist around the world have reacted strongly. Three former chairs and jurors of the World
Press Photo Contest-James Colton, David Burnett and Maria Mann- wrote an open letter to World Press Photo opposing the organization's decision. The letter was signed onto by 400 other professional
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Courier Journal Monday June 9, 2025
Bill Luster, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer for The Courier Journal of Louisville, Kentucky, died on May 29, reports the newspaper. 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 awarded the Local Reporting Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the nation’s worst drunk-driving accident, notes the National Press Photographers Foundation. Luster also covered 55 Kentucky Derbies. Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Monday June 9, 2025
An outburst of Red sprites — an unusual type of electrical discharge that occurs high above thunderclouds — has captivated social media, notes PetaPixel. The surreal show unfolded between May 31 and June 1 in the Shannan City area of southwest China’s Xizang (Tibet) Autonomous Region. As reported by APT, the red sprites were captured by Chinese astrophotographer Dong Shuchang, who recorded them in slow motion using high-speed camera technology.
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Press Gazette Monday June 9, 2025
YouTube channels are using AI to steal words and photographs from paywalled news content and reproduce articles wholesale without the consent of publishers, reports Press Gazette, citing the experience of freelance journalist Rob McGibbon, whose first-person account of his estrangement from his late father (written for the UK’s Daily Mail) was reproduced by a Youtube Channel. Google, which owns YouTube, is “handling stolen goods in plain sight and governments must find the way to hold them responsible,” McGibbon says.
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