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Hello! Magazine has announced it is to push up market by dropping general celebrity coverage favouring lifestyle & fashion as it’s main content …Pap agencies read on here…

James Naughtie profiles Rupert Murdoch, the global media magnate. Despite the phone-hacking scandal, his political influence and business skills elicit both fear and admiration. Here…

The Wall Street Journal reports: ‘Carlyle has announced 11 buyouts worth $22.3 billion this year, making it the most active private equity buyer this year, according to Dealogic’ …full report here Thanks to PAN reader John for flagging this one up…

Getty Images’ new owner the Carlyle Group are buying the auto paints unit of Du Point the paint company for $4.9 Billion …they got Getty Images for $3.3b …WSJ.com has the story Thanks to PAN reader John for this one…

New post on the Press Photo History Project now: Hi, Will. I just wondered if you knew dates (birth/death) for [photographer] Drees who… PressPhotoHistory.com…

Splash Founder Confirmed Speaker At Luminance… full report on AboutTheImage.com…

Camille Pecnard on the ILO website reports: ‘Copyright infringement by digitalisation of photographs without authorisation’ ‘The First Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court rendered a decision regarding the digitalisation of photographs by a press agency without the photographer’s express authorisation. The court considered whether such digitalisation must be expressly mentioned…

The Huffington Post reports on the growing problem of monitoring porn images uploaded by users of photo sharing app Instagram. …’The explicit images run afoul of Instagram’s terms of service, which prohibit “nude, partially nude, or sexually suggestive photos.” But while Instagram can ban certain activity, it can’t always police…

Visa pour l’Image pro week runs 1 – 6 Sept Below are details of shows sent into PhotoArchiveNews.com from photo agencies VII, Panos, and Noor. Happy to build this article/showcase so send in your Visa news and links… thanks [email protected] VII: click the photographers to view Projects by VII photographers…

Newly formed Matrix Media Group brings together Matrix Picture Agency, Matrix Studios and Matrix Australia all under one banner. A spokesman for the group told PhotoArchiveNews.com this morning: ‘Matrix Studios has been a great success since it’s launch earlier this year, bringing in collections from studio photographers from around the…

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Photo: Elbie and Lily at lunch This just in….. Hi Will, We recently ran a competition and have an image of the winner out with our Managing Director Elbie Lebrecht. Author Pictures at Lebrecht competition winner Lily Richards of Random House enjoyed an exquisite French cuisine lunch with Elbie at…

PAN reader Julie Grahame writes: ‘I got an inquiry from the make-up artist in this photograph seeking the photographer thereof. If you would add to any current requests for info on orphans we’d be grateful.’ If you are the photographer or represent this image please contact [email protected]…

Richard Young Gallery 4 Holland Street London W8 4LT Monday – Thursday 10am – 6pm Friday 10am – 5pm Saturday 10.30am – 5pm Closed Sunday They say: Britain’s foremost celebrity photographer, Richard Young, will exhibit his most prized images of the late Elizabeth Taylor, in a Limited Edition collection spanning…

400 drawings by cartoonist Gernot Gunga are now available for licence at German photo library dpa Picture-Alliance View a sample here.…

Stock music resource AudioMicro has announced it has been the included as a featured music partner in the newly updated version of Windows Live Movie Maker. Users of the latest version of the software can navigate to AudioMicro.com directly from the program’s home tab to license royalty free music and…