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Newsletter profiling Scoopt's open letter to Flickr members so that they can link tagged photos to Scoopt accounts that they sign up for. The tagging allows Scoopt to "acquire" the photographs and use them for their distribution.

There is no overarching ban on photography, nor is their likely to be. Yet, as a new Manifesto Club report by gallery director Pauline Hadaway outlines, there is growing regulation of citizen photography, with touchy subjects now ranging from policemen to transport facilities, from children's nativity plays to football matches. This is a model of how liberty is lost today: often not with a blanket draconian law, but through incoherent and creeping restriction at a local level, with rules drawn up by community safety wardens, private security guards and other self-appointed "jobsworths".

How social networking is changing journalism A conference in Oxford explores the interaction between the internet and the news industry * Comments (1) * Buzz up! * Digg it The morning of the Oxford Social Media Convention focused on the impact of social media. Especially interesting were the statements on the panel 'Breaking news: the changing relationships between blogs and mainstream media'. Richard Sambrook, the director of the BBC Global News Division, said that the impact of social media was overestimated in the short term and underestimated in long term. Mainstream media are adopting social media especially with blogging and twitter, he admited, but nobody discusses the effects on the long term.

What's this site about? Focussing mostly on free sources with a UK bias, this site is aimed at journalists of the student, 'citizen' and professional varieties. In these pages I will outline a few tips, tricks and sources for unearthing the following: * Contributors * Case-studies * Backgrounders/analysis * Statistics * Actuality/archives, and * Any other thing I can think of

guardian slideshows

Journalism jobs, news and links for journalists working online and in print media

Digital cameras have made taking pictures easier. But, to mark the launch of our Photographer of the Year competition, photojournalist Jon Levy, asks if that means we are becoming better photographers.

"Corentin Wauters: Gamma is one of the most famous photojournalism agencies. Some even call it legendary. How important has it been for photojournalism? Michiel Munneke: I think Gamma - but also others like Magnum, for instance - played an extremely important role from early years on, especially in documenting crucial news events around the world. It's important to realise that in those days you had magazines like Life and the Picture Post who very generously allocated tens of pages to events like the war in Vietnam, for example. Those publications and photographs made a huge impact on their readerships. I think it's fair to say that the founders of Gamma, like Raymond Depardon - although he moved to Magnum at the end of the '70s - and Gilles Corron, who died in 1970 in Cambodia, can be classified as legendary. They played a very important role in news documenting in those years. Raymond Depardon said that in 1966 you only had to travel far away and take three shots to get published in magazines Paris Match or Le Nouvel Observateur. How has the profession of photojournalism changed since Gamma was founded? If Depardon was saying that competition for space in publications like Paris Match or Le Nouvel Observateur is stronger, then he's absolutely right. Competition is far more severe. Circulations are going down, advertising revenues are shrinking, and consequently budgets for journalism and for photography are being cut. image Nowadays its very rare that publications send photographers for assignments overseas. Take a renowned magazine like Time. They still have photographers on staff but they very rarely get assignments to go overseas. It's a sign of the times. Gamma, but also other big photojournalism agencies like Sipa, were founded in Paris. The city had a big name as a centre for photojournalism. To what extent is that true today? I think for those years it was really true. But now, in the era of globalisation and digitisation, it doesnâ

link to film siege of Sarajevo is here https://vimeo.com/128590723 link to PG marking criteria is here http://www.arts.ac.uk/media/arts/study-at-ual/academic-regulations/PG-Marking-Criteria-Matrix-with-Letter-Grades.pdf

Detailing the life and work of acclaimed war photographer Don McCullin, the seminal photo-journalist of the 1970s and 1980s, Jacqui Morris' documentary film shows the truth behind McCullin's hard hitting and controversial images.

Interesting chapter on giving 'photographic power and expression' to de-colonised people

although not immediately connected, this is really interesting and I read it wondering whether the theory of the 'reverse gaze' as defined in the article could equally apply to pro photographers who photograph 'the other'

source of references

I have the pdf of the book if needed

"David Hurn: Passing Time Magnum photographer David Hurn on an extraordinary exercise in collaborative curating. "