Italy’s RAI journalists strike over budget streamlining, complain of censorship and media repression

Italy’s RAI journalists strike over budget streamlining, complain of censorship and media repression

ROME — Some journalists at Italy’s state-run RAI went on strike Monday to protest budget streamlining and what they said was an increasingly repressive atmosphere in Italy for media under the government of Premier Giorgia Meloni. The 24-hour RAI strike is the latest protest by Italian journalists against what they say are threats to freedom … Read more

Journalists critical of their own companies cause headaches for news organizations

Journalists critical of their own companies cause headaches for news organizations

NEW YORK — This spring, NBC News, The New York Times and National Public Radio have each dealt with turmoil for essentially the same reason: journalists taking the critical gaze they deploy to cover the world and turning it inward at their own employers. Whistleblowing isn’t unique to any industry. Yet the contrary outlook baked … Read more

AP WAS THERE: OJ Simpson’s slow-speed chase

AP WAS THERE: OJ Simpson’s slow-speed chase

EDITOR’S NOTE: The first week of the O.J. Simpson case in mid-June 1994 moved quickly, with reporters racing to reach the news. The only thing that was slow was The Chase. The football great had been accused of killing his ex-wife and her friend, and there he was on live television, in the back of … Read more

Abrdn CIO slams jabs at company’s rebranded name

Abrdn CIO slams jabs at company’s rebranded name

The abrdn Plc office at St Andrew Square in Edinburgh, U.K. on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021. Jonne Roriz | Bloomberg | Getty Images The press making jabs at the current name of asset manager Abrdn, which was rebranded from ‘Standard Life Aberdeen’, amounts to “corporate bullying,” the firm’s chief investment officer Peter Branner said. The … Read more

Book Review: ‘Newshawks in Berlin’ illustrates tough choices news organizations face in wartime

Book Review: ‘Newshawks in Berlin’ illustrates tough choices news organizations face in wartime

Journalism is often referred to as the first draft of history, especially when covering war and international conflicts. “Newshawks in Berlin: The Associated Press and Nazi Germany” explores the challenges the world’s largest news organization faced in trying to balance journalistic ethics with ability to cover World War II within the confines of a dictatorship. … Read more

Sports Illustrated will continue operations after agreement reached with new publisher

Sports Illustrated will continue operations after agreement reached with new publisher

Sports Illustrated will continue operations after the company that owns the brand agreed with a new publisher for its print and digital products. Minute Media took over on Monday after reaching a licensing agreement with Authentic Brands Group. On Jan. 19, Authentic announced that it was revoking The Arena Group’s publishing license after Arena failed … Read more

Delete a background? Easy. Smooth out a face? Seamless. Digital photo manipulation is now mainstream

Delete a background? Easy. Smooth out a face? Seamless. Digital photo manipulation is now mainstream

NEW YORK — It’s been a common refrain when seeking proof that someone’s story or some event actually took place: “Pics, or it didn’t happen.” But in a world where the spread of technology makes photo manipulation as easy as a tap on your phone, the idea that a visual image is an absolute truth … Read more

Biden’s team signaling a more aggressive posture toward the press

Biden’s team signaling a more aggressive posture toward the press

NEW YORK — Occupants of the White House have grumbled over news coverage practically since the place was built. Now it’s Joe Biden’s turn: With a reelection campaign underway, there are signs that those behind the president are starting to more aggressively and publicly challenge how he is portrayed. Within the past two weeks, an … Read more

Think the news industry was struggling already? The dawn of 2024 is offering few good tidings

Think the news industry was struggling already? The dawn of 2024 is offering few good tidings

NEW YORK — On Friday, the National Press Club is offering solace — and a free meal — by giving recently laid-off journalists tacos in recognition of a brutal stretch that seems to offer bad news daily for an already struggling industry. For anyone who works in the news media, the list is intimidating — … Read more

Hal Buell, who led AP’s photo operations from darkroom era into the digital age, dies at 92

Hal Buell, who led AP’s photo operations from darkroom era into the digital age, dies at 92

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Hal Buell, who led The Associated Press’ photo operations from the darkroom era into the age of digital photography over a four-decade career with the news organization that included 12 Pulitzer Prizes and running some of the defining images of the Vietnam War, has died. He was 92. Buell died Monday in … Read more