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SKY News presenter Anna Botting has returned from presenting live coverage of the Japanese tsunami to present the most prestigious event in the newspaper industry’s calendar. She will host The Press Awards today and the ceremony will be broadcast live over the internet and via Twitter (@pressawardsuk) The Press Awards…

RM or RF? Can you tell the difference? Photo agency Aurora Photos have added royalty free images to their collection. To mark the event they are giving you a chance to win an iPad – ‘Guess at least 3 out of 5 pairs correctly and be entered to win an…

UK newspapers Daily Sport and Sunday Sport have gone into administration and stopped publication. ‘If no buyer is found, the Sport will be the first UK national newspaper to close since the demise of News International’s Today in November 1995’ report BBC News…

click to view images, NB you will have to register before you can browse… Specialist sports photo agency Colorsport Images Ltd can now offer picture desks 300,000 images – online. Colorsport Chief Executive James Pinniger told Photoarchivenews.com this morning: “In the two years I have been here, the library team…

This week photoarchivenews.com initiative The Press Photo History Project has helped the production team of a Terence Rattigan documentary on BBC Four find the correct copyright holders for images they wanted to use in the programme…… read the details and check if your photos are up for a fee! –…

Following ‘Marketing the Monarchy’ is a second documentary on American prime time TV this evening, Chasing The Royals by Award-winning Canadian filmmaker John Curtin featuring the Royal Family and it’s ‘relationship’ with the press. ‘The goings-on in the House of Windsor has been Britain’s most popular soap opera for years.…

UK based stock photo site Alamy reports it added two million images over the last four months taking the overall image’s offered to twenty three million….get searching!…

BuzzFeed reports: 60 Completely Unusable Stock Photos – ‘A collection of unexplainable, bad stock photos via Awkward Stock Photos.’ – not sure what the legal departments will make of this feature but we guess it’s all good exposure for the photo agencies involved… – Thanks EL for pointing us to…

click for the set UK based architectural and interiors photo library View Pictures have uploaded four new interiors image sets, the one above is by photographer Edmund Sumner of a house in Delhi, India. Designed by Norfolk based Hudson Architects, the house is for an extended Indian family with a…

click to view the new site Infradox, ‘mission critical web solutions for photo libraries’, from web technology company Xpertise ICT BV have a new website. MD at Xpertise ICT BV, Martin Wilmsen, told photoarchivenews.com: “We’ve been developing and hosting solutions for picture libraries on our Infradox software for well over…

click for the BBC’s Salford slideshow The University of Salford is launching a photo archive of the city with an exhibition documenting 50 years of the archive’s history. The photographs included in the exhibition offer a glimpse into the changing social and economic landscape of Salford. Salford in Pictures, F14…

photo: Iraqi journalist Sabah al-Bazee. Reuters/Files Reuters reports: The freelancer who worked for Reuters was among at least 20 people killed on Tuesday when gunmen attacked a local government building in Tikrit, the hometown of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Sabah al-Bazee, 30, who had contributed to Reuters in Iraq…

Framepool, a footage collection run by filmmakers, opens their call for entries for the 2011 Framepool/ LBB/ FireFlies Challenge. This successful short-film competition is aimed at directors from all over the world, who want to present their films to a highly prominent jury – whilst supporting a good cause at…

FotoFringe London exhibitor Camera Press are looking forward to the ‘person to person network event’ on May 11 inviting designers, publishers and picture researchers with an invite directly from their home page contact Steve Hodgson – s.hodgson@camerapress – to book your slot with Camera Press and get to learn the…

click the PG cover to see subscription details Press Gazette Editor Dominic Ponsford introduces the latest issue: Editors Blog…

Battlebridge Room Terrace – Photo credit: Kings Place Publishers, designers, art directors, creatives, picture editors and researchers, and professional picture buyers of all kinds are invited to enjoy free entry to meet 43 key image suppliers on 11 May at the FotoFringe London – Drop in or make appointments, or…

UK based, ‘socially responsible image agency’ Majority World has announced that it has secured vital new start up investment from Stichting DOEN in the Netherlands as well as from two of its founder directors. As a result of this vote of confidence, the agency can now embark on its ambitious…

Veer offer ‘Extended Customer Protection Plan’, providing customers with up to $250,000(USD) coverage for 100 Veer Credits The Extended Customer Protection Plan gives customers added peace of mind that they are legally protected from claims of infringement of intellectual property from the copyright holder of the image, from models within…