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Scott Baradell edits and contributes to Black Star Rising. A former newspaper journalist and executive for Belo Corp., Scott is an accomplished brand strategist who leads the Dallas-based Idea Grove agency. He has nearly two decades of experience working closely with professional photographers, both as a journalist and as a corporate photography buyer. He has consulted for Black Star since 2006.Partisanship, Lies and Photoshop
“Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.”
– Historian James Harvey Robinson
Funny thing is, that quote’s about 100 years old. So when we talk about the excessive partisanship that plays itself out across the U.S. [...]
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- How to Stop Bloggers from Hotlinking to Your Images
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- Newspapers Are Running Out of Time to Solve the Problem of Content Theft
- Stock Photography’s Hidden Costs — and How to Avoid Them
- Photographers, Car Thieves and Copyright
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- Blind Photographers Teach Us New Ways of Seeing
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- The Case Against Photo Illustrations
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- A Nude Photo Scandal from the Other Side of the Lens
- Maybe Rights-Managed Photography Just Needs a Better Name
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- Ashley Dupre and the Muddled Mess of Fair Use
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- Even Student Photojournalists Fear “Amateurs” These Days
- Why Photographers Hate Creative Commons
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- NCTJ Tackles Issue of Video Training for Photographers
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- Scoopt Founder: “I Wouldn’t Like to Be a Local Newspaper Photographer Right Now”
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- The Art of Science (and Vice Versa)
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