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Million+ historic photos put online
By Christopher B. Daly Don’t miss: if you are a historian, researcher, or dedicated browser, visit the new flickr site of The British Library. The library recently made news by posting more than 1...
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Jacob Riis showed “How the Other Half Lives”
By Christopher B. Daly A hat-tip to journalist and educator Ted Gup for a terrific story about his discovery of a classic work of journalism history — the copy of How the Other Half Lives that was...
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D-day media roundup
By Christopher B. Daly On this historic occasion, here’s an array of historic media images from D-Day and the following couple of momentous days as the Allies fought their way off the beaches and began...
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Tyler Hicks — a grim day in Gaza
By Christopher B. Daly The remarkable Tyler Hicks seems to have a knack for being present where things happen. Hicks, the NYTimes photojournalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news this year...
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News comes from far away. . .
By Christopher B. Daly Do we get too much information about distant conflicts, or too little? The New York Times offers two very different answers. One comes from Anjan Sundaram, a former stringer for...
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What can we learn from a Civil War sketch artist?
by Christopher B. Daly Plenty. The little-known artist Alfred Waud was one of the most important “visual journalists” covering the greatest conflict in American history. Along with the young Winslow...
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Journalism jobs: Digital now outnumbers print
By Christopher B. Daly Two important trend lines have recently crossed, probably forever. The number of jobs in the U.S. newspaper sector has now dipped below the number of jobs in the digital media....
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How you can save journalism
Strike a blow for freedom! Fight against fake news! By Christopher B. Daly In these challenging times for the news business, it is more important than ever for Americans who care about press freedom...
View ArticleJournalists: “Stay Safe” while on assignment
By Christopher B. Daly Journalists face an unprecedented array of threats: the traditional physical dangers of covering riots and fires; the new online threats posed by trolls; partisan attacks on...
View ArticleTo journalists covering hurricanes: STAY SAFE!
By Christopher B. Daly For all those reporters, photographers, videographers and others who end up covering Hurricane Irma (or any of the other intense storms that the climate throws our way), here is...
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