DERBY.- All that Fits: The Aesthetics of Journalism is on display in QUAD Gallery from Saturday 28th May until Sunday 31st July 2011. A new exhibition exploring the apparently opposite realms of Journalism and Art. All that Fits: The Aesthetics of Jour…
Big Demand, 2,800 Requests per Second, for Osama bin Laden News Crashes Newseum’s Website
WASHINGTON (AP).- When big news breaks, newspapers are a hot commodity despite the immediacy of online news. The website for the Newseum, a museum in Washington devoted to journalism, crashed Monday as thousands of people looked to see how newspapers …
Puerto Rico Painter Jose Torres Martino Dies at 94
By: Danica Coto, Associated Press
SAN JUAN (AP).- Jose Antonio Torres Martino, a Puerto Rican painter and writer who helped create and expand art and journalism institutions on the U.S. island, died Friday. He was 94. Torres died at Pavia Hospital in S…
Newseum Gets Japan Quake Handwritten Newspapers
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP).- When Japan’s earthquake and tsunami knocked out power and printing presses, newspaper journalists in at least one city resorted to handwriting the news on poster-size paper. Seven of those original sheets from the daily Ishinoma…
Foam in Amsterdam Presents a Retrospective Containing Work by W. Eugene Smith
AMSTERDAM.- This winter, Foam presents a retrospective containing work by W. Eugene Smith (US, 1918-1978). Smith has been hailed as the founder of the photographic essay. His extensive pictorial narratives, accompanied by captions and comments, appeare…
Foam in Amsterdam Presents a Retrospective Containing Work by W. Eugene Smith
AMSTERDAM.- This winter, Foam presents a retrospective containing work by W. Eugene Smith (US, 1918-1978). Smith has been hailed as the founder of the photographic essay. His extensive pictorial narratives, accompanied by captions and comments, appeare…
Washington Post Publisher Katharine Graham Exhibit Opens at the National Portrait Gallery
WASHINGTON, DC.- Born into privilege, newspaper publisher Katharine Graham (1917–2001) was catapulted onto the international stage as publisher of The Washington Post during the Watergate scandal in the 1970s. From her entrée to the world of jour…
Photographer and Associated Press Drop Claims Against Each Other
NEW YORK (AP).- A photographer who took a picture that the Barack Obama “HOPE” image was based on dropped his claim Friday that he owns the copyright to the photograph, instead of The Associated Press. The AP also dropped its claim against him. The sti…