QuickLinks For 2006-03-31

• Cox Newspapers Says No to AP Video:
  Since launching MediaShift in January, the one post I’ve written that has received the most vehement response so far was about the Associated Press’ new online video service requiring Internet Explorer and Windows. [..]
  Now comes word that it’s not just the MediaShift community of readers that is upset with the AP video network’s requirements. Will Sullivan, interactive projects editor at the Palm Beach Post’s website , writes in his Journerdism blog that his employer, Cox Newspapers, decided to remove the AP video player from all its newspaper sites.
  Mediashift.
  Tags: Associated Press Video Cox Newspapers

• Associated Press Joins Plagiarism Club (Blog Herald), linking to:
  We contacted an AP senior editor and ombudsman both and both admitted to having had the article passed on to them, and both stated that they viewed us as a blog and because we were a blog, they did not need to credit us. What we are or are not is frankly irrelevant.
  The Huffington Post here.
  Tags: Associated Press Plagiarism

• OnAsia closes distribution partnership with NewsCom:
  OnAsia currently has a network of over 100 member photographers throughout their region and over 90,000 high-resolution images. NewsCom already has over 30,000 of OnAsia’s images on its site.
  Details here.
  Tags: OnAsia NewsCom

• Diomedia - New site:
  Diomedia boasts one of the largest collections of premium RF brands. We employ latest search engine technology to ensure our search is one of the fastest around.
  The website also features an Advanced IMAGE ZOOM technology, allowing visitors to inspect all details of an images – online, before committing to e-commerce purchase, followed by the instant download.
  PhotoArchiveNews.
  Tag: Diomedia

• Index Stock Imagery starts to represent Superstock’s Purestock RF collection.
  The Purestock collection currently consists of 30 CD titles and 10,000 single images. Index will launch initially about 10,000 of Purestock’s top images.
  Details here.
  Tags: Index Stock Imagery Purestock Superstock A21

• Half a million images are now searchable on Photographers Direct. This is quite a landmark for us, but with the collection doubling in size year on year, we hope to reach a million images this time next year! We have also had major improvements in handling the capacity of traffic we now receive (100,000 vistors a week!) and you should find searching the database consistently faster.
  Photographers Direct.
  Tags: Photographers Direct

• One for the weekend. Smith "Fired" From Pilot Over Scalia Photo:
  Freelance photojournalist Peter A. Smith, 51, has been “fired” by The Pilot, a weekly Catholic newspaper run by the Archdiocese of Boston, for releasing to the Boston Herald a photograph of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia making a controversial Italian hand gesture while he was inside the Cathedral of the Holy Cross last Sunday.
  “I can’t be fired, I’m a freelancer,” Smith told News Photographer magazine today. “They may feel that they have fired me, but there was no contract. I’ve freelanced for them for ten years and there’s never been a problem before."
  NPPA here.
  Related: How's This for Justice? Photographer Fired from Newspaper He Doesn't Work For (Dennis Dunleavy)
  Tags: NPPA Peter Smith

• The launch of the leading website and information resource for the stock photo industry, a new venture with lots of experts, will be announced tomorrow.
  Tags: Stock Photo Industry