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Here’s an interesting interview by Shutterstock with one of their staff photographers Stephen Lovekin who usually shoots entertainment content for the agency. Stephen shares what life is like as an Editorial Photographer in the midst of a pandemic and how he’s adapted to social distancing limitations to create timely, thought-provoking…

In the celebrity interest world People magazine has named Rob Silverstein Executive Producer/Showrunner of its new daily, syndicated half-hour TV show based on the content of the PEOPLE brand. Silverstein will oversee all aspects of the new program, which will launch in Meredith’s local television markets in fall 2020.The PEOPLE half-hour TV program will…

Reuters on Tuesday was awarded a Webby Award for its e-learning course, ‘Identifying and Tackling Manipulated Media.’ The Webby Awards, presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, named Reuters the winner in the Websites: News & Politics category.  ‘Identifying and Tackling Manipulated Media’ is an e-learning course…

The Visionary Award by the Tim Hetherington Trust is designed to foster innovative approaches to visual storytelling by incubating visionary individuals and offer inspiration to others by example.   Visual artists and journalists whose thinking and process reach beyond the limitations of conventional media practice to create engaging and dynamic communication…

Recognizing the widespread financial need caused by the worldwide pandemic, the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography will break from tradition this year. Rather than award $40,000 to a single photographer, the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund will award $10,000 to five photographers whose work follows the tradition of…

PAN spotted this – stock photos from Panoramic Images on face masks now available from online print store Pixels… here…

US based online news site BuzzFeed will no longer be covering local news in the UK or Australia… ‘both for economic and strategic reasons, we are going to focus on news that hits big in the United States during this difficult period. Therefore, we will notify staff in the UK…

Stock photo agency Shutterstock has launched a new service Asset Assurance, customers can quickly license editorial images and footage in commercial and creative campaigns with the assurance that Shutterstock provides indemnification, alongside its commercial license, to use these images in specific campaigns.  How Does it Work?  Content labeled “Editorial Use…

UK based Barcroft Studios has produced a new unscripted Snap Original series called Frontline Heroes with the social media platform Snapchat. Self-shot by protagonists to comply with social distancing guidelines, each episode of Frontline Heroes tells the deeply impactful story of a key worker who is risking their life by going to…

‘Our new home for documentaries, miniseries, feature films and more, bringing you the best, deepest, most immersive storytelling in sports.’ Sports magazine and website publisher Sports Illustrated are going to start creating and license new content across their wealth of archival material through the newly launched Sports Illustrated Studios. This…

Phil is in New York and has been for sometime now – He sold his sports photo agency EMPICS to the Press Association in 2004 – see the PAN report– and has set up a very successful local-lifestyle magazine for the NY area called W42ST. Due to the Covid situation…

PAN loved this project overview montage by UK Picture Editor Claire Woodall celebrating her year long 16 week photo desk placement at Channel 4.Claire, a seasoned photo editor, started in the industry as a Picture Researcher with photo agency Superstock in 1998 moving into picture editor roles at BBC Good…

Tough news into PAN this afternoon – UK stock photo library fotoLibra will close on the Monday 1st June.The library was set up seventeen years ago by Gwyn Headley and Yvonne Seeley – Gwyn sent this note to his contributing photographers summing up the situation and understandable reasons for shutting…

The ddp group – see their PAN listing – is now offering rights tracking not only for authors of the agency group but also as a service for third parties.PAN spoke with them last night on the news and we are happy to report they are treating image rights chasing…

Dribbble, a site where creatives share, grow and get hired, has acquired Creative Market a marketplace for ready-to-use design assets. CEO at Creative Market Chris Winn says: “Creative Market is the world’s marketplace for design. Since 2012, we’ve welcomed over six million members from more than 195 countries. All along,…

An interesting take on the current ‘Corona’ situation here from photographer Jan Walter who has ‘reframed the topic’ under the title ‘Humor in times of Corona’ – uploaded and ready for licensing at German photo library imageBROKER who say: “Anyone who has worked for clients such as Rolf Benz, Yves…

A UK national newspaper reported on Sunday that photo agency Splash News is preparing to appoint administrators for it’s UK branch. PAN is trying to clarify the move – here’s what our source close to the situation told us: “It is true that one of the companies in the Splash…