Abigail Heyman, a photographer whose stark portraits of women at work, at home and at weddings gave a visual concreteness to feminist doctrine of the 1970s about the oppressiveness of traditional female roles, died on May 28 at her home in Manhattan. She was 70. The cause was heart failure, said her son, Lazar Bloch. […]
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Most Internet users were disabused of the notion that their online activities could be kept entirely secret long before the recent revelations that the National Security Agency has been tracking the phone calls and online communications of millions of people. And to a great degree, consumers have traded privacy for convenience — like having Web […]
For many of its 38 years, the sober studio-interview format of the “PBS NewsHour” has served the program well, drawing viewers and corporate underwriters alike. But with a deep financing crisis forcing layoffs and other cutbacks this week, some public television employees believe that format — and a general unwillingness to embrace the digital realities facing […]
This is a column about Jonah Lehrer, the 31-year-old disgraced former New Yorker writer who recently — sigh — landed a contract for a book about love. (Yes, love.) But I want to start by recalling another disgraced former magazine writer: Stephen Glass. Glass was once a Washington wunderkind, who wrote remarkable articles filled with fabulous scenes and […]
Call it Pfc. Bradley Manning Inc. As the widely anticipated trial of Private Manning — the former Army intelligence analyst accused of leaking classified government documents — opened at a military base in Maryland on Monday, a grass-roots activist network has already blossomed in his support. The Bradley Manning Support Network has a Facebook page, […]
The top intelligence official in the United States condemned as “reprehensible” leaks revealing a secret program to collect information from leading Internet companies and said a separate disclosure about an effort to sweep up records of telephone calls threatens “irreversible harm” to the nation’s national security. The comments by James R. Clapper, the director of […]
Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper operations in Britain, appeared in court on Wednesday and denied charges relating to the country’s phone hacking scandal, which has sent shock waves through the press, the police and the political establishment. In Southwark Crown Court in London, Ms. Brooks, 45, entered a plea of […]
Yet another debate over Facebook’s control over its users’ content simmered this week, though it was a bit different from the privacy flaps of the past. A coalition of feminist groups called Women, Action, and the Media wrote an open letter to Facebook last week urging it to remove content that trivializes or glorifies violence […]
John Morris, former picture editor of Life, talks about the great photographer and his most historic roll of film – of D-Day When Robert Capa’s photographs of D-Day finally reached the Life magazine offices in London, it was nearly deadline. The invasion of Europe on June 6 1944 was the story. The pictures needed to […]
Social platforms like YouTube have become a rich source of “citizen journalism” about breaking news events, but media outlets don’t always provide credit. Mark Little of Storyful wants to try and change that with a public license for video news. By now, it should be obvious to just about anyone that “citizen journalism” or “user-generated […]
The Chicago Sun-Times fired all of its photographers on Thursday. Out the door went 28 people, and decades of experience and skill. All at once the paper emptied a deep reservoir of photojournalistic talent. Before Thursday, it had a staff of professionals with broad knowledge of a great city, with the hard-earned ability to tell […]
Hello there all you journalists in the "twilight world" of subeditors and reporters stuck in "medieval" times. What a bunch of losers you must be. Perhaps you should follow the example of one-time sub David Montgomery and, instead of making all those unnecessary corrections, reinvent yourself as a media mogul hellbent on destroying journalists' jobs […]
On the front row in the Broadhurst Theatre for the Wednesday matinee of ‘Lucky Guy,‘ we were so close to the action up on stage that my husband forgot for a minute he wasn’t actually in a newsroom as a bunch of fellow reporters gathered around to hear a particularly moving Pulitzer speech. “He was […]
On the program she invented, on the network where she worked for the past 37 years, on the medium where she broke barriers and rules for more than 50 years, Barbara Walters will announce on Monday morning, definitively and with no regrets, that she is calling it a career. “It’s time,” Ms. Walters said, previewing […]
A year after announcing a plan to reorganize The Times-Picayune of New Orleans into a more digitally focused enterprise that produced a newspaper just three days a week — enraging local residents — its owners have added a new innovation: they will go back to producing a printed product every day. “We are excited about […]
Following revelations that Bloomberg News reporters had used the Bloomberg terminals — ubiquitous in the finance sector — to spy on some banker activity, the Financial Times reported Tuesday that thousands of private messages sent between terminal users have been leaked online and available for public view for some time. The latest news “undermin[es] he […]
Yes, says image analyst Neal Krawetz, who believes the photo of grieving in the Gaza Strip may be three images melded together. No, say independent analysts contracted by World Press Photo, including a nifty tech outfit called Fourandsix. But another start-up argues that there can be no definite answer once the process of image manipulation […]
It’s a wonderful compliment for Tribune Co.’s newspapers that so many people are worried about what might happen to them under the ownership of Charles and David Koch, the libertarian billionaires said to be considering a bid for the outlets. In California, unions and legislators have expressed concern about such a sale, the former […]
Twitter says it doesn’t have any interest in hiring reporters or performing other journalistic functions — but regardless of whether it does so, it is still a powerful media entity and one that grows stronger by the day. When Twitter recently posted a job listing for a “head of news and journalism,” it sparked […]
“SEX game gone wrong,” “sex game gone awry,” “sex-mad flatmate,” “sex-crazed killer.” That’s from just the first three minutes of the ABC News special on Amanda Knox last week, a veritable drumbeat of sexual shaming that leaves no doubt about what elevated a college student accused of murder into an object of international fascination, […]