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Kodak employed 140,000 people. Instagram, 13. A digital visionary says the Web kills jobs, wealth -- even democracy

The World Press Photo of 2014, selected today, shares an intimate embrace between a gay couple in a dark room in Russia, captured by Danish photographer Mads Nissen. Continue reading → Worth re-reading the NPPA Code of Ethics. Many photos disqualified for excessive tampering/retouching.

the hit crime podcast from the hit podcast makers at This American Life, is an immigrant story. Adnan Syed, the man currently serving a life sentence for the murder of Hae-Min Lee, comes from a Muslim family; the deceased is the daughter of Korean immigrants. Sarah Koenig, the journalist telling their story, is white.

Screenshot from NPR by Posted on " The Complicated Ethics Of 'Serial,' The Most Popular Podcast Of All Time" Share: Hae Min Lee was murdered in 1999. She was a senior in high school. She was strangled. Her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was convicted of the crime and sentenced to life in prison.

Do you want to present visual messages in new ways? Are you looking for new design tools to help you create visual content? Social media is nothing without images. From simple blog graphics to memes and videos, visuals help us communicate with and engage our audiences.

It simply isn't true that an algorithmic filter can be designed to remove the designers from the equation. That assertion melts on contact, and a New York Times reporter who receives such a claim from a Facebook engineer should somehow signal to us that he knows it's bogus.

Jim Wilson / The New York Times MENLO PARK, Calif. - Many of the people who read this article will do so because Greg Marra, 26, a Facebook engineer, calculated that it was the kind of thing they might enjoy.

Jeff Hermes of the Media Law Resource Center discusses the legal needs of a new generation of news organizations It's a cliché to say so, but we're at a moment of transition for American journalism. The digital disruption that has challenged the newspaper industry and other legacy publishers has also created opportunities for independent journalists and startup news organizations.

By all accounts, the brief tenure of Charles Davis as an associate editor working out of the Los Angeles bureau for Vice Media was not a happy one. He showed promise when he was hired in July, after having written a couple of successful stories for the company as a freelancer, the first one dating back to late 2012.

ESPN's decision to suspend Bill Simmons, one of its most prominent employees, for his derogatory comments about NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell might seem like a sports story.

David Oritz, President Obama and the Samsung selfie

Thinking through news judgment. More art than science.

The Guardian. Iraqi boys

View Journalists attempt to interview a woman who is the relative of a passenger on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, as she crouches on the floor crying, at the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, March 8, 2014.

Attack on the Kenyan Mall: Scenes from inside the Westgate mall in Nairobi as shoppers fled the assault. Note: Contains graphic images.

Man Falling, World Trade Center 9/11.

Photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg has been covering Afghanistan since the late 80s, and his indelible images capture the suffering, heroism, and endurance on all sides of the conflict.

MOSUL, Iraq - Until the past week, Samar Hassan had never glimpsed the photograph of her that millions had seen, never knew it had become one of the most famous images of the Iraq war. "My brother was sick, and we were taking him to the hospital and on the way back, this happened," Samar said.

It is a scene from which many of us would naturally recoil, or at least avert our eyes: a grievously injured young man, fallen on a rough patch of earth; his open-mouthed and unseeing stare registering - who can know what?