Friday, 29 de March de 2024 ISSN 1519-7670 - Ano 24 - nº 1281

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Abigail Heyman, Feminist Photojournalist, Dies at 70

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. […]

Can’t Hide in the Cloud

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 […]

Venerable Format of ‘NewsHour’ Struggles With New Era of Media

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 […]

How to Monetize Plagiarism

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 […]

Manning Supporters Are Loud and Online

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, […]

Intelligence Chief Calls Leaks on U.S. Data Collection ‘Reprehensible’

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 […]

Top Murdoch Executive Denies Hacking Charges

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 […]

Do Newspapers Need Photographers?

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 […]

Facebook, hate speech, and censorship

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 on his friend Robert Capa

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 […]

‘Lucky Guy,’ and lucky newspaper readers

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 […]

Leaked private messages worsen Bloomberg scandal

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 […]

Is the World Press Photo of the Year a fake?

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 […]

Walters to Announce 2014 Retirement on ‘The View’

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 […]

Newspaper Monopoly That Lost Its Grip

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 […]

Sexism and the Single Murderess

   “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, […]

US media groups bank on digital rights

  Media companies are banking on the prospect that tech firms will continue to pay up for digital rights to their programmes, despite recent warnings from Netflix that it would become choosier in its deals for traditional television content. “With people consuming more and more video all the time, the key to success is pretty […]