Bob Martin joins new London-based picture agency Silverhub as director of...
Former British Sports Photographer of the Year Bob Martin has joined new London agency Silverhub as director of photography. The agency was launched last month with a ten-strong team by former Getty...
View ArticlePolice tell reporter to delete pics of school evacuation saying 'they could...
Police told a trainee journalist to delete pictures of primary school children being evacuated from their school off his phone in a bid to stop the images going to press. Kent Messenger reporter Joshua...
View ArticleChannel 4 takes minority stake in London video and pictures news agency...
Channel 4 has taken a minority stake in London-based news agency Barcroft Media. Barcroft has a focus on bizarre human interest, and natural world, stories and employs around 50-staff. It sells photos...
View ArticleArchant photographers axed in favour of 'photo curators' and pics taken by...
Archant will look to its reporters and the public to provide images for stories under a proposed restructure of the local newspaper group’s photography departments that will reduce the number of staff...
View ArticleBrexit campaign group accused of flouting English law by using photographer's...
A freelance photographer is demanding payment from pro-Brexit campaign group Leave.EU after it used his photos of the Brexit: The Movie premiere without permission. Chris Bethell was on assignment for...
View ArticleTrinity Mirror cuts: Photographers out and digital trend writer plus breaking...
Photographers have been targeted in a fresh wave of redundancies at the Manchester Evening News with the head of news role at the Huddersfield Examiner also being cut. The NUJ has labelled the...
View ArticleVince Price, former editor who built journalism-led free newspaper group,...
A former editor who helped herald in the era of free newspapers during the early 1980s has died aged 68. Vince Price was editor of the award-winning West London Informer group, which he built up from a...
View ArticleFormer Daily Telegraph and Mail on Sunday sports photographer Frank Coppi...
Tributes have been paid to sports photographer Frank Coppi after his death aged 62. The former Daily Telegraph and Mail on Sunday photographer died on Wednesday last week, six months after he was...
View ArticleNewsquest journalists urged not to just 'find a picture on Google' because of...
Newsquest’s editorial development director Toby Granville has urged the group’s journalists not to take pictures from the internet without permission. In a memo circulated around the group he said:...
View ArticlePhotographer brothers launch Atlantic Images – fourth UK picture agency...
A new picture agency has today been launched by two brothers. Christopher and Peter Whittle, sons of Cavendish Press picture agency founder Brian, set up Atlantic Images to exploit a gap in the market...
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National dailies splash on iconic picture of Syrian boy in ambulance,...
The image of a Syrian boy sat in an ambulance, caked in dust and blood after being rescued from a building hit by an air strike, has appeared on the front page of several national newspapers. The photo...
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Drone photographer challenges Alamy and Express over use of aerial school...
A freelance photographer plans to take picture agency Alamy and the Daily Express to court in a payment dispute over his striking aerial images of a blazing school fire. Eddie Mitchell claims to have...
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Press Association to make 4m images available globally via tie up with Getty
The Press Association is teaming up with Getty Images to make over a century’s worth of its photographs available to a wider, global audience. More than four million pictures from PA Images will be...
View ArticleFacebook has admitted it got it wrong by deleting famous 1972 'napalm girl'...
Facebook’s chief operating officer has apologised to Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg for deleting a photograph from its pages and conceded that “we don’t always get it right”. Sheryl Sandberg...
View ArticleArchant quizzes reporters over sources of stories and photographs as staff...
Reporters at Archant London are being asked to record the sources of their photographs and leads on target sheets after staff photographers were cut from four to one across six titles last week. From...
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Charity calls for release of Egyptian photographer 'Shawkan' jailed for...
Amnesty International has called for the immediate and unconditional release of an Egyptian photojournalist jailed for taking pictures of a protest where more than 700 people were killed. Mahmoud Abu...
View ArticlePhotographer warned Tory aide to put notes away before snapping details of...
Photographer Steve Back has revealed he told a political aide to cover her notes outside Downing Street before snapping apparent details of the UK’s secret Brexit strategy. Back, who runs the agency...
View ArticlePhotographer wins 'David and Goliath' copyright battle against giant picture...
A freelance photographer says he has won a “David and Goliath” battle against international picture agency Alamy after settling with the company out of court over a copyright dispute. Eddie Mitchell...
View ArticleShutterstock to distribute Associated Press daily photos to its UK customers
Stock photo provider Shutterstock has struck a deal with the Associated Press that will see it distribute the agency’s daily photos from around the world for licence to UK customers. The agreement...
View ArticleBritish photographer blinded by shell explosion on Ukrainian frontline slowly...
A British photographer who was left nearly blind by an exploding stray shell on the Ukrainian frontline is said to be slowly regaining his sight. Christopher Nunn had been covering the fierce shelling...
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