Patrick Farrell of the Miami Herald and Damon Winter of The New York Times were awarded Pulitzer Prizes–the most prestigious award in journalism–for their photography, with Farrell winning for breaking news photography and Winter for …

Just 55 days shy of 150 years in circulation, the Rocky Mountain News of Denver, Colo. has announced that it will shut down.
The paper’s closure makes Denver a one-newspaper town–The Denver Post remains open–and marks …

Veer, the visual design elements company owned by Corbis Images, announced this week that it has launched its new royalty-free microstock service, the Veer Marketplace, which will offer images for between $1 and $20.

Ritz Camera, which bills itself as the nation’s largest camera retailer, has apparently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a U.S. District Court in Delaware.

The re-wording of Facebook’s terms of use has fueled a deluge of online criticism as major players in the blogosphere complain that the company has given itself a perpetual, virtually limitless right to profit from …

The NCAA and the Associated Press announced this week a three-year agreement making AP Images the global distributor of the NCAA’s photo collection, a move the NCAA says will create the largest existing pool of …

Two years after buying the photo licensing agency Scoopt, Getty Images has announced it will close the UK-based company and meld a select portion of Scoopt’s images with Getty’s as the company focuses on “core …

Using a Canon 5d Mark II set up remotely inside a customized Pelican case, McClatchy-Tribune Photographer Chuck Kennedy captured a never-before-seen angle of the presidential inauguration, NPPA’s News Photographer Magazine reports.

Three private photography companies–Rubberball, Glow Images and Blend Images–have won an auction for the bankrupt stock agency SuperStock, Blend CEO Rick Becker-Leckrone confirmed this week.
SuperStock was owned by the public media company a21, which announced …

The mega-discount stock photo giant iStockphoto announced it will soon release a public beta version of a desktop photo-browsing software program it has code-named “Dexter,” which will allow users to browse through iStock’s content, manage …

JPG Magazine announced on Jan. 1 that it couldn’t make ends meet and would shut down effective today, and almost immediately more than a dozen potential buyers came scrambling to make offers for the beleaguered photography …

Many people will likely remember 2008 for the economic battering it doled out to the world. The world of photography is no different: It was a tough year financially for both photography companies and for …

Polaroid announced today that an ongoing investigation into its parent company, Petters Group Worldwide, has “compromised the financial condition” of the camera and electronics company, and so it would begin Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.

Photographer-turned psychologist Lisa Jack has unearthed film from a photo shoot she did with Barack Obama in 1980, when the president-elect was a freshman at Occidental College in Los Angeles, and the shots got picked …

Two separate lawsuits allege that world-renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz has neglected to pay a combined $778,000 to a stylist and a lighting company.

A year after announcing they were exploring “strategic alternatives,” the media company a21 and subsidiary SuperStock–which marketed itself as a higher-end stock photography outlet–announced today they would file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Citing “weaker-than-expected demand” for its new CS4 suite and the global economic crisis, Adobe Systems announced today it would cut some 600 jobs, reducing its global workforce of more than 7,000 by about 8 percent.

Circuit City–the major electronics retailer that this week filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy just after announcing that it would shutter more than 150 stores and lay off thousands of employees–owes major camera manufacturers Nikon and …

Sigma Corporation announced today that it had purchased Foveon, Inc., the San Jose, Calif. based company that developed the three-layer X3 sensor technology employed by Sigma’s line of digital cameras.

PhotoShelter announced today that they had clarified exactly when photo sites relying on Digital Railroad would shut down.
After learning early this week that DRR customers would have less than 24 hours to access their archives …

Digital Railroad, the photo management and microstock agency that on Oct. 15 announced staffing cuts, has taken its site offline, and even the company’s most prominent former customers are scrambling to find another hosting service …

PDN’s PhotoPlus Expo, considered among the most important international photography events each year, drew thousands of photographers to New York City. Ask The Photographer was there to talk with leading photographers and professional camera titans.

PhotoShelter CEO Allen Murabayshi told a reporter from Photo District News that his photo hosting company is hoping to attract customers from Digital Railroad, which released a statement last week indicating it was in dire …

The photo management and micro stock agency Digital Railroad–a company that had formed partnerships with major photography players such as the NCAA and the National Press Photographers Association–has confirmed a staffing reduction and, according to …

Adobe announced today the immediate availability of CS4 (Creative Suite 4), the latest version of its creativity software that the company announced Sept. 23.

Adobe Systems released today an update for its Camera Raw software that contains a Digital Negative Converter to convert raw files to Adobe’s Digital Negative format.

Ever felt as though you weren’t quite as photogenic as you’d like to be? Well, Nikon believes there may be a certain science to posing for photos that could take some learning: The company has …

A newly formed organization called the Metadata Working Group - comprised of representatives from Adobe, Apple, Canon, Microsoft, Nokia and Sony - has released a 42-page publication they hope will become the first set of …

Adobe Systems announced today the release of Creative Suite 4, the latest edition of Adobe’s line of software that includes industry-essential mainstays like Photoshop.

PhotoShelter announced today that it will close down the PhotoShelter Collection, its stock service that the budding company had hoped would make revolutionary steps in the microstock photography sales industry, after just a year in …