Gabby Giffords Scales Swiss Alps: News Photo Blogs, Slide Shows and Best Practices
Tell me whether it isn't time that the news photo blog, the news photo gallery and the news photo slideshow receive more critical attention with a thoughtful eye to the viewer experience, editorial rigor and a set of best practices?
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The State of the News Photo: Part 2 of 3
This "long read" is an online version of a talk presented June 23, 2012 at the Photoville photo festival in Brooklyn, NY about the growing prominence and editorial capabilities of the news photo.
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Businessweek Cover: The Mormon Empire, Burger King and Romney the Almighty
To the extent Romney and Bain Capital donated $2 million worth of Burger King stock to the Mormon Church, this almost doubles as a "church and treasury" warning poster.
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More on Olympic Pics, Eye Caramba and Why Bad Photography Such a Threat Right Now
God forbid, for the status quo, that the bad becomes interesting.
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GQ’s Porn Star Showcase: James Deen Meets Austin Powers
This GQ image by photographer Danielle Levitt caught my eye for the way it tries hyping a porn star to the mainstream.
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What Does Madonna's Daughter in Cone Bra Have to do with CNN, FOX Bad SCOTUS Call?
The Supreme Court Obamacare announcement mess illustrate the shortcomings of traditional media and the growing power and critical effect of social media.
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FOX Parallel Universe: Secretary of State Weighs in On Egypt
Who would think the fact we have a current female Secretary of State might conjure less than flattering comparisons to certain predecessors?
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That Journalistic Assault on the President (and Two Views of the Perp)
In this polarized political climate, it appears there are different ways of reading what happened -- and different photos for it.
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George Bush's Head on a Spike
Now it'd be all-too-easy to chalk this up solely to prankishness, but there is a funny (but not-at-all funny) relationship here to something America just hasn't dealt with openly.
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Medevac Photos Revisited: U.S. Embedding Policy Alive and Well
Following up on our January 2011 post, I thought I would take a quick run through Google Images to try and determine how many other medevac photo-stories existed.
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Return of "The One"?: Our Take on the Newsweek Obama "Gay Messiah" Cover
As Obama closed in on the presidency in 2008, the McCain campaign launched a “messiah” attack. Here we go again?
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Your Turn: TIME's Other Breastfeeding Cover
In response to all the buzz this week about TIME's breastfeeding cover, BagNews asks readers to compare it to the only other similar TIME cover.
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Campaign ’12 Stereotypes: “Forward”-Thinking Women as "Stepford Voters"
Depicting women as enamored with the candidates for whom they vote is nothing new. If anything, though, what you're looking at is a policy swoon.
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NYPD "Snatch and Grab" Tactics Illustrated (and, Why the Pics are So Scarce)
If the bandwidth for reporting, visual and otherwise, is all too narrow, it's also true news photographers almost always have a lot more truth to show and tell.
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No Bain, No Gain? — NYT Mag's Pro-Romney Cover/Story
New Yorker magazine asks a Bain Capital executive for his rationale on the validity of the 1%. The outcome is predictable. And, frankly, where would we be without a shoe to shine?
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Santorum and Lohan At White House Correspondent’s Dinner
If I had to boil the power bacchanal down to one photograph, it's this one.
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