Nieman Lab Tuesday October 14, 2025
One in five Americans say they regularly get news on TikTok, a dramatic uptick from just 3% in 2020, according to a Pew Research Center analysis published last week. “During that span, no social media platform we’ve studied has experienced faster growth in news consumption,” Pew researchers noted. Pew’s findings are important for media outlets and independent journalists doubling down on vertical video, notes Nieman Lab. The news comes as Donald Trump closes in on a deal to create an American-owned version of TikTok controlled by allies of the president.
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COLOSSAL Tuesday October 14, 2025
On view at the Museum of Fine Art Boston though July 13, 2026, is the exhibition “Faces in the Crowd: Street Photography,” which “explores the evolving techniques photographers have used to record the human experience as it has played out in populous urban spaces.” Seminal works by Stephen Shore, Garry Winogrand, Helen Levitt, Dawoud Bey, and Yolanda Andrade, among others, are complemented by more recent contributions to the genre by artists like Parr, Luc Delahaye, Katy Grannan, Amani Willett, and Zoe Strauss, notes Colossal. Read the full Story >>
BBC Tuesday October 14, 2025
A 29-year-old man was recently arrested on suspicion of starting the Pacific Palisades fire in Los Angeles that killed 12 people and destroyed more than 6,000 homes in January. Now the BBC reports that evidence collected from Jonathan Rinderknecht's digital devices included an image he generated on ChatGPT depicting a burning city,. Rinderknecht was arrested in Florida and has been charged with destruction of property by means of fire. One of the most destructive blazes in LA history, the fire erupted on January 7 near a hiking trail that overlooked the wealthy coastal neighborhood.
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1839 Awards Tuesday October 14, 2025
The 1839 Awards has announced the winners of its International Photographer of the Year Contest, with the top prize going to portrait and fashion photographer Jaime Travezán for his series, “Dream,"shot as promotional material for the fashion designer Ade Bakare. Travezán, whose work has appeared in magazines such as i-D, Elle, and Vogue, as well as in newspapers worldwide, began his career as a photojournalist in his native Peru, before relocating to London in 1985. Read the full Story >>
