Agency boss: UK newspaper freelance rates so low my daughter can earn more babysitting
Jon Harris, the chairman of the National Association of Press Agencies and managing director of Manchester-based news agency Cavendish Press,…
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Agency boss hits out at ‘paltry and outdated’ freelance rates at Reach on day of journalist strike
A news agency boss has hit out at “paltry and outdated” freelance rates at Reach’s national newspapers as the publisher’s…
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Social media and pandemic prompt demise of showbiz news agency WENN
Celebrity news agency World Entertainment News Network (WENN) has folded after 33 years, blaming the “perfect storm” created by social…
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Picture editors write to Number 10 after press photographers ‘excluded’ from historic Brexit moments with PM
Press photographers are being “excluded from historic moments” in British politics in favour of Boris Johnson’s new official snapper, according…
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Sports news agency launches with focus on ‘off the wall news’
Sports journalist Charlie Golder has launched a new wire agency focused on “off-the-wall” sports news. Golder’s News and Sports stories…
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Rex Features at 60: The need for speed, the Leveson ‘paparazzi’ backlash and the great digital opportunity
The photo agency that claims to be the first to have snapped Charles and Camilla together in public is celebrating…
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Photo agency NewsPics wound up after failed copyright claim against investigative journalism site Exaro
Picture agency NewsPics is to be wound up after being hit with a five-figure legal bill from a failed attempt…
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Great news pictures celebrated at Press Photographer’s Year Awards 2013
Agence France-Presse photographer Adrian Dennis won three categories at the Press Photographer’s Year 2013 awards yesterday. The sports photographer won…
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