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Instagram for newsrooms: A community tool, a reporting tool, a source of Web content

Meena Thiruvengadam — Mon, 27 May 2013 10:02:28 +0000

For news organizations, Instagram isn’t just about pretty pictures. It’s about the people they’re interacting with and the stories behind the images.

“Instagram is so immediate and intimate that it creates this close connection with the user,” said Cory Haik, … Read more

Smartphones captured 2 iconic shots of new World Trade Center

Andrew Beaujon — Fri, 10 May 2013 19:47:13 +0000

NBC News’s Anthony Quintano “was on the roof of One World Trade where all the iron workers were watching the spire rise,” he tells Poynter in an email. (Workers at One World Trade attached the building’s spire Friday morning.) … Read more

ProPublica releases simple tool for searching Instagram

Andrew Beaujon — Tue, 07 May 2013 21:06:30 +0000

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ProPublica news application developer Al Shaw discovered an Instagram API that lets you search by both time and geographic coordinates — “a perfect way to see who’s at a certain place at a certain time,” Shaw writes.… Read more

NYT’s front-page Instagram: Maybe not the end of photography

Andrew Beaujon — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:39:06 +0000

Nick Laham | The New York Times | Business Insider | The Wall Street Journal

Nick Laham “took what space I could get and worked with it” to capture of New York Yankees players on the team’s photo … Read more

Instagram changes terms of service, but will pro photographers flee anyway?

Andrew Beaujon — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:12:13 +0000

Instagram | Read Write Web | Time | The Verge
Instagram says it’s going to delete language from its new terms of service that caused widespreading out-freaking across the Internet.

The language we proposed … raised [the] question about
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Twitter-Instagram photo war reveals new business realities of social networks

Jeff Sonderman — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:36:11 +0000

The photo-sharing turf war is escalating, with Twitter copying Instagram-like features and Instagram (owned by Facebook) no longer making its photos viewable within tweets.

No matter which company wins, users will lose.

It seems time to just accept that Facebook … Read more

Instagram breaks records during Hurricane Sandy

Jeff Sonderman — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 20:41:16 +0000

Giga OM | Gizmodo | Forbes | Time | New York Times
As we suspected in the midst of Hurricane Sandy, the storm and its aftermath became the most-Instagrammed news event ever with more than 800,000 photos posted.

Gizmodo … Read more

Instagram users are posting 10 Hurricane Sandy pictures every second

Jeff Sonderman — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 19:14:01 +0000

Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom tells us via a spokeswoman: “There are now 10 pictures per second being posted with the hashtag #sandy — most are images of people prepping for the storm and images of scenes outdoors.”

The total photos … Read more

How to curate Instagram by reposting newsworthy photos

Jeff Sonderman — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:05:36 +0000

Instagram is becoming synonymous with smartphone photography, with over 50 million users and 5 million more joining every week. Those users have snapped more than 1 billion photos of pets, nature or food, and also some news.

In some … Read more

The benefits, drawbacks of using camera phones as a photojournalist

Keith Jenkins — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:06:18 +0000

The mind can sometimes play tricks on you.

After returning from a trip to Europe several months ago, I viewed some of the photos I had taken and was disappointed by how they turned out. I resolved (no pun intended) … Read more