A newspaper boy in Wilmington, Delaware (USA)
The archival record for the photograph says:
Barney Goldstein, 83 W. 5th St. Newsboy, 10 years of age.
Selling newspapers 1 year.
Average earnings 50 cents per week.
Selling papers own choice.
Don’t smoke.
Visits saloons.
Works 5 hours per day.
Investigator, Edward F. Brown.
Location: Wilmington, Delaware.
Photo by Lewis W. Hine, May, 1910
A call for help:
There is no press freedom in Burma and the government has started turning off the Internet and other means of communication, so it is difficult to get news out.
Individuals on the ground have been sending their day-by-day reports to the BBC, and they are heartbreaking.
I encourage you to read these accounts to see for yourself what is really going on in Burma.
Please include this link in your own blog post.The situation in Burma is increasingly dangerous.
Hundreds of thousands of unarmed peaceful protesters, including monks and nuns, are risking their lives to march for democracy against an unpopular but well-armed military dictatorship that will stop at nothing to continue its repressive rule.
While the generals in power and their families are literally dripping in gold and diamonds, the people of Burma are impoverished, deprived of basic human rights, cut off from the rest of the world, and increasingly under threat of violence.This week the people of Burma have risen up collectively in the largest public demonstrations against the ruling Junta in decades.
It’s an amazing show of bravery, decency, and democracy in action.
But although these protests are peaceful, the military rulers are starting to crack down with violence.
Already there have been at least several reported deaths, and hundreds of critical injuries from soldiers beating unarmed civilians to the point of death.The actual fatalities and injuries are probably far worse, but the only news we have is coming from individuals who are sneaking reports past the authorities.
Unfortunately it looks like a large-scale blood-bath may ensue — and the victims will be mostly women, children, the elderly and unarmed monks and nuns.Contrary to what the Burmese, Chinese and Russian governments have stated, this is not merely a local internal political issue, it is an issue of global importance and it affects the global community.
As concerned citizens, we cannot allow any government anywhere in the world to use its military to attack and kill peacefully demonstrating, unarmed citizens.In this modern day and age violence against unarmed civilians is unacceptable and if it is allowed to happen, without serious consequences for the perpetrators, it creates a precedent for it to happen again somewhere else.
If we want a more peaceful world, it is up to each of us to make a personal stand on these fundamental issues whenever they arise.Please join me in calling on the Burmese government to negotiate peacefully with its citizens, and on China to intervene to prevent further violence.
And please help to raise awareness of the developing situation in Burma so that hopefully we can avert a large-scale human disaster there.
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(Pictures by Reuters)
The Beaver County Times, published in Beaver, Pennsylvania (USA), has this elegant front page today with a picture that goes from the back to the front.
Well done!
This was Kenji Nagai, a 50-year-old photojournalist killed working for the Tokyo-based APF News who, The Guardian said, had years of experience covering danger zones.
Kenji was fatally wounded in Yangon on Thursday, and pictures smuggled out of the country showed him clutching a camera as he lay dying.
You can follow the Burma revolt in this amazing blog.
And in the videos posted on YouTube.
The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns the shootings and the heavy government interference and ongoing harassment of journalists who are attempting to cover the unfolding political events in Burma.
“The protests in Burma are of international concern, and we call on the military government to allow journalists to report freely and without fear of reprisal on these major events,” said Joel Simon, CPJ’s executive director. “Judging by the widespread news and video clips of recent events, we fear that the junta will resort to even greater violence as the situation in Burma grows worse.”
According to the Burma Media Association (BMA) and Burmese exile-run news sources, on Wednesday afternoon at the height of the conflict the military government disconnected nearly all mobile phone services in Rangoon.
The cuts took place at 3 p.m., coinciding with the time when security forces confronted and opened fire on Buddhist monk demonstrators at Sule Pagoda in central Rangoon.
Authorities also reportedly moved to block the Internet, over which journalists have sent news, images, and videos of the protests to outside news agencies and foreign-hosted video-sharing Web sites since the unrest began on August 19.
According to BMA, in recent days police have moved to close several Internet cafes in Rangoon.
Meanwhile the main state-affiliated Internet service provider, Bagan Cybertech, has, on government orders, agreed to reduce Internet speeds, an apparent attempt to limit the ability of journalists to send out video images of the protests, according to BMA.
CPJ research has found that many Burmese journalists inside the country were able to use proxy servers and proxy sites to get around government-administered blocks on foreign-based e-mail accounts, including Gmail, which they have used to anonymously send out news to foreign and exile-run news organizations.
Several journalists were able to send out images and videos of the protests as well as footage of the government’s crackdown on demonstrators over the Internet, according to news groups who received the materials.
Burmese authorities have refused to grant reporting visas to scores of journalists who have applied in recent weeks from Thailand.
(Pictures by Reuters)
The National Post launched its new design yesterday and today it is paying a high price for a wrong decision with its new vertical name plate.
And the front page picture had to be cropped in order to fit with the aesthetics of the new format…
So, we lost the most dramatic part of the picture of the day: the killing of a photojournalist.
The Toronto Globe and Mail front page shows the whole picture.
The same bad choice was made by the Austrian Kleine Zeitung.
While the Canadian and Austrian papers made a terrible mistake, the International Herald Tribune presented the two photos in full.
Publico, the new Spanish viewspaper, selected another excellent picture.
Reuters has done a superb job covering the demonstrations.
Watch the killing of our colleague in this video from Reuters.
His death deserved a more sensitive news judgement and better photo editing.
What a shame!
Good news!
This is the front page of today’s Publico.
Spain has the first printed, paid, quality, daily views-paper.
The editor, Ignacio Escolar, is a young journalist (31 years old), who is one of the most popular bloggers in the country.
He is the son of Arsenio Escolar, editor of 20 Minutos, the popular quality free newspaper that leads the Spanish market with more readers and copies than any other newspaper.
As Rodrigo Orihuela says:
“Ignacio Escolar, is likely to set an international milestone: the world’s first blogger to become editor-in-chief of a national newspaper… The financial group behind the newspaper, Mediapro, is close to the socialist administration of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the Spanish Prime Minister, and wants to jump into the fray as soon as possible in order to be well-placed as the political campaign heats up ahead of national elections in March 2008.”
Público has been presented also as a fresh alternative to El Pais, but the first issue shows that it wants to get new young readers.
Not to steal readers from other newspapers, but to bring in new ones.
This is the right approach.
Público is a full-color, compact, quality and cheap newspaper (only .50 euros at the newstand) following traditional design concepts from El Periodico de Catalunya in Barcelona, Clarín in Buenos Aires or The Independent in London.
At the same time, the Planeta Group is launching adn.es, another “daily,” but online, lead by Juan Varela, another popular blogger.
The Spanish newspaper market is booming, El Pais, El Mundo and La Vanguardia are ready to launch new editorial and graphic concepts.
El Pais has been working with Ally Palmer and Terry Watson but the redesign changes, as in the past with a Lucy Lacava project, have been rejected by the editors.
Now they are working on another in-house redesign.
For this reason, the relaunch of El Pais is going to be in October, rather than September.
El Mundo will present also a new face in print, and needs to rethink in a dramatic way its online version, which now has been clearly challenged by elpais.es.
The former editor of elmundo.es, Gumersindo de la Fuente, is working on another “online only” news service, and there are similar projects in the pipeline for other newspaper groups.
The Spanish media was shocked when a few weeks ago Juan Luis Cebrian, former editor of El Pais, said that if he had to found El Pais again, he would start it with an online version.
Finally, La Vanguardia in Barcelona, leader of the Catalonian market, is launching an updated editorial model with new format and a state of the art Wifag full color on October 2.
INNOVATION has been working with La Vanguardia on this project.
Público is a show of faith in the power of print media but, more importantly, in the power of ideas and journalism.
As I said, good news!
Two “moving newsstands” at traffic lights in the capital of Macedonia, Skopje, selling newspapers, magazines, CDs, DVDs, books…
Taken this morning from his car by Darko Buldioski
The Newspaper Association of America (NAA) is promoting a new campaign to present how newspapers are becoming multimedia outlets.
Well, the idea is excellent.
The choice of this illustration is wrong though.
Multimedia journalism is not funny, it’s something more serious than this.
This kind of misrepresentation is the last thing that we need to enlist our newsrooms in this new media landscape.
INNOVATION
