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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: photojournalism

photojournalism stories: 4 news summaries
OPINION

 AP Made Right Decision 
 to Run Marine's Photo 

We need to see the war

Sep 9, 09 4:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - The AP made the correct call in running a photo of a mortally wounded Marine, writes David Harsanyi in the Denver Post. “If I could recall a wanton penchant of the press to run photos of dead Marines, my reaction might have been very different,” he writes. But... More »

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US military • First Amendment • freedom of press • Associated Press • Marine • Afghanistan war • photojournalism • Marine Corps • Joshua Bernard • Julie Jacobson

 How I Got This Shot: Photog 

Widener recalls capturing Tank Man image 20 years ago

Jun 4, 09 6:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - On the 20th anniversary of Tiananmen Square, one image endures: a lone man standing in front of a column of tanks, refusing to let them pass. Jeff Widener, the AP photographer who captured the moment, tells USA Today how he evaded the police and the censors to take the shot... More »

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China • Beijing • Tiananmen Square • protests • photograph • People's Liberation Army • Associated Press • photojournalist • photojournalism

 Journal's Year in Pictures 

See the year again, for the first time

Dec 24, 08 8:55 PM CST
(Newser) - Rupert Murdoch always said he’d make the Wall Street Journal more visually interesting, and it doesn’t get much more visually interesting than the 2008 “Year in Photos” feature the paper began today. You can see many of the Journal’s selections, spanning global conflict, the financial... More »

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Wall Street Journal • photography • photograph • photojournalism • Best of 2008

Obituary

 'Killing Fields'
 Photog Dith 
 Dead at 65 

Times photojournalist and anti-Khmer Rouge crusader had pancreatic cancer

Mar 30, 08 12:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Photojournalist Dith Pran, whose saga was re-created in the film The Killing Fields, has died of pancreatic cancer at 65, the New York Times reports. The Cambodian native became the Khmer Rouge's most vocal opponent after escaping in 1979, having worked in labor camps and survived on a spoonful... More »

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genocide • New York Times • Thailand • obituary • Pulitzer Prize • Cambodia • Khmer Rouge • Dith Pran • Sydney Schanberg • photojournalist • photojournalism • labor camp • The Killing Fields

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