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More news about the news
By Chris Daly More news today about journalism. ~First, an update from the NYTimes about the harrowing captivity of four of its own journalists (including Tyler Hicks, a BU alum who will be the...
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On photography in a disaster
I am posting the following essay by Tyler Hicks — an award-winning news photographer for the New York Times (and B.U. Journalism alum). It was sent by the Times via email, “exclusively to Times...
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Powerful photo
By Chris Daly From the New York Times comes this powerful photo by photographer Andrea Bruce. It is lit almost like a Caravaggio painting, with its dramatic chiaroscuro. The lighting that falls on the...
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Horst Faas, great news photographer, dies at 79
By Chris Daly One of the most important photographers and photo editors of the last century has died. Horst Faas, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner during his long career at The Associated Press, was...
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Subway photos: The journalist’s dilemma
By Christopher B. Daly Anyone who has ever ridden the NYC subways has probably thought about it as you stand on the platform waiting for a train. What if some crazy bastard snuck up behind me and...
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The big picture
By Christopher B. Daly In case you missed it, here is the Washington Post‘s panoramic photo of Obama’s second inaugural, which is quite impressive. (I’m just not crazy about those tags. They take up a...
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Tyler Hicks: photos from Timbuktu
By Christopher B. Daly The intrepid Tyler Hicks, conflict photographer for The New York Times, has made it to Timbuktu, recording the campaign to oust the Islamic militants who briefly held the remote...
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Shameless self-promotion (Journalism history division)
By Christopher B. Daly Finally, it’s here: the electronic version of my book about the history of U.S. journalism, Covering America. Just in time for the anniversary of the rollout of the hardback,...
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America’s history of censorship
By Christopher B. Daly A recent obituary reminds us that during World War II, President Roosevelt created and operated a wide-ranging and largely effective program of censorship of all news media. The...
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More on WWII photo censorship
Here is a new Times “Lens” blog, with more on LIFE magazine photographer George Strock. Photo by George Strock/ LIFE magazine. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: censorship, journalism history,...
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New AP book of Vietnam War photos
By Christopher B. Daly Thanks to The Associated Press, there’s a new book of news photographs from the American war in Vietnam that will remind us of all the chaos, confusion, heroism, beauty, and...
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White House photogs demand access
And they should get it (much as I would like to side with B.U. alum Pete Souza, the official White House photographer). Here’s a version. Filed under: Journalism, journalism history, New York Times,...
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Jacob Riis showed “How the Other Half Lives”
By Christopher B. Daly A hat-tip to journalist and educator Ted Gup for a terrific story about his discovery of a classic work of journalism history — the copy of How the Other Half Lives that was...
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Tyler Hicks — a grim day in Gaza
By Christopher B. Daly The remarkable Tyler Hicks seems to have a knack for being present where things happen. Hicks, the NYTimes photojournalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news this year...
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What can we learn from a Civil War sketch artist?
by Christopher B. Daly Plenty. The little-known artist Alfred Waud was one of the most important “visual journalists” covering the greatest conflict in American history. Along with the young Winslow...
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The story to watch: Hong Kong
By Christopher B. Daly Where will the new Hong Kong protests lead? Hard to say. For decades, it has been widely assumed that if there were a serious blow delivered against the regime in China, it...
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My favorite films about journalism
By Christopher B. Daly This weekend marked the general release of the terrific new film “Spotlight,” about the team of investigative journalists at the Boston Globe who broke the prize-winning story...
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