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Here I am posting useful articles on how COVID-19 ‘s affect on the news industry – please send me any articles you have found useful so I can share with all – [email protected] • The Committee to Protect Journalists CPJ have updated their very useful CPJ Safety Advisory: Covering the coronavirus…

For fantastic stock photography and photo services visit these resources on PAN: • View PAN listed photo libraries and agencies Picture Libraries page • View PAN listed photo suppliers – photo researchers and tech companies Suppliers page • How to list your photo business on PAN…

Great effort here from students and lecturers at the University of South Wales BA (Hons) Photojournalism degree who have been ‘remoting’ since Monday this week.“First online classroom sessions with our Photojournalism students this morning. Law and Ethics and tutorials this afternoon. We can get through this!”…

PAN reader Paul Brown -MD at Mary Evans Picture Library – flew to Japan a few weeks ago for a holiday mixed with photo agent meetings. His trip also coincides with the Japanese cherry blossom season – something he shoots every year to add to his personal stock catalogue.Paul reported…

In a email newsletter this week titled THE BEST NEW IMAGES FROM OUR PHOTOGRAPHERS photo library Mauritius Images have featured a stock photo shoot by photographer Martin Zurek covering Munich now…

Bryn Colton the Senior Editor at Bloomberg Photo Service is up and running at his London home office – with a little help from Harold’s book to prop up the laptop! Bryn told PAN yesterday: “Yes – all the London pic desk staff who look after the EMEA region are…

Hi Will, “Last week, the TopFoto team moved to working remotely.We are fully operational (subject to our cats’ and dogs’ approval obviously), including search support and digitisation. In this extraordinary and turbulent period, however long it lasts, we aim to support each other, our customers and our colleagues – band together…

A reminder from The Francis Frith collection dropped into the PAN inbox today – Free Ecards – this is a great online library service which will prove very popular at this time! Here’s the email: ‘The Francis Frith Collection website will continue to operate throughout this Coronavirus situation and we…

With the announcement today that the Tokyo Olympics has been postponed for a year imago images have prepared a selection of stock photos if you are covering the situation – license ready. • View imago images detail on our Picture Libraries page…

The photo delivery industry, that’s stock photo libraries, photo agencies, tech companies, picture researchers, picture editors and freelance news photographers, are used to working from home. ‘Home’ sometimes means the car seat outside an event or a production suite in an unknown city but now, due to the coronavirus, home…

Great ‘research and ready to license’ gallery here from UK based photo agency Motorsport Images from their massive collection Here: Racing Drivers At Home…

This from akg images UK MD Jonnie – Hi Will, I hope this finds you well and still busy. I thought that I should pop you  a quick note/ news item to let you know that all is well at akg-images. Last week we took the decision to close our…

Highlight Films stock footage library offers the ‘best footage of Israel and other Middle East locations’ – here’s their latest agency promo.…

This in from PAN reader Isabelle Doran, Picture Library Manager at Loupe Images. Isabelle told us: “It made sense to take the advice from Government to start working from home from this point onwards. Luckily remote access is working really well with super fast broadband, remote Desktop & server and of…

Congrats to PAN reader StormStock photo agency owner Martin Lisius is a winner! Great work Martin! “My short film “Prairie Wind” was just awarded “Best Cinematography” at the International Innovation Film Festival in Switzerland. The festival officials described the process I created to produce the film in 16K to the…

Cannes Lions announces today that the annual Festival of Creativity will not take place in June as previously planned. We are now engaging our contingency plans for the previously published 26 – 30 October dates. The decision comes following much deliberation with our partners and customers, as well as, consultation…

PAN reader Ruth Hoffmann, the Senior Licensing Account Manager at Magnum photos , is working remotely in London – she’s home all day – her cat Max obviously didn’t get the 2M distance email …. Ruth told PAN: “Hope you’re all doing ok in these uncertain times. Just a quick…