DP Review Thursday April 9, 2026
Some big changes are going on at OM System, notes DP Review: The company has announced "a change in its shareholder structure," resulting in its president and CEO becoming the "principal shareholder of the Company." At the same time, there appears to have been a leadership shakeup at Japan Industrial Partners (JIP), the private equity firm that owned OM Digital Solutions. In a press release, the company said the changed would "enable more agile and flexible decision-making.” Read the full Story >>
Smithsonian Thursday April 9, 2026
Jacqueline Burke, a 64-year-old veterinarian, is the grand prize winner of Smithsonian magazine’s 2026 photography contest for her image of three recently hatched egrets, taken at the Ocean City welcome center in New Jersey, a rookery where native and migratory birds choose to breed—and a popular destination for birders and bird photographers. “Their little necks and heads were writhing,” Burke says. “One would peck. The other would peck back.” This year’s contest drew more than 17,000 submissions from 108 countries. Read the full Story >>
Nieman Lab Thursday April 9, 2026
For 180 years, ever since it was founded by five New York newspapers in 1846 to help share the costs of reporting on the Mexican-American war, newspapers have been a part of the Associated Press’ business. Now, notes Nieman Lab, that’s changing: The news service has offered buyouts to an unspecified number of journalists based in the U.S. as part of a shift toward visual journalism and “developing new revenue sources, particularly through companies investing in artificial intelligence, to cope with the economic collapse of many legacy news outlets.” Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday April 9, 2026
The images on view in the exhibition "Typecasting: Photographing the Peoples of India, 1855-1920" may seem to a modern viewer to be compelling portraiture made by pioneering artists. But context
changes everything: The images were taken by British colonialists as part of a great project of photographic ethnography, intended to classify, categorize and ultimately control their subjects. People
visiting the exhibition at the Delhi … Read the full Story >>
