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The Chicago Sun-Times made a shocking announcement last week when it fired its entire photo staff. The paper says it will now rely on freelancers and reporters to shoot with cellphone cameras or whatever equipment they have.

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist John H. White was among the nearly 30 full-time photographers let go. White spent decades at the Sun-Times. He told Tell Me More that the firings have hurt the Sun-Times, but the future of photojournalism remains bright.

On what the loss of the Sun-Times photography department means to the paper

“It’s like taking the eyes from the body. My former students, there’s a team, there’s a family. You know, for the Sun-Times, that’s lost.

“We were there because it was a great paper. And Sun-Times won a Pulitzer Prize — the news — just two years ago in 2011. That was before this management purchased the Sun-Times. So the Sun-Times has always been that light, that beacon, that symbol of journalism — and the best of journalism. The consistent pursuit of excellence. Everything I photograph, as far as I’m concerned, is for Page 1. And that’s the idea.

Photo Staff Firings Won’t Shake Pulitzer Winner’s Focus

Photo Credit: John H. White

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Runner provided with the apparatus intended to register his different paces.

~~Alphonse Vallot~~ E. Valton, from La machine animale (Animal mechanism), by Etienne-Jules Marey, Paris, 1873.

(Source: archive.org, in English here.)

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Check out the video of The National’s Tiny Desk Concert on Friday.

(Photo: Hayley Bartels/NPR)

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nationalgeographicmagazine: Monte Perdido, Spain Photograph by...

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Monte Perdido, Spain
Photograph by Maxime Daviron, Your Shot
The north face of Monte Perdido in the Spanish Pyrenees. The mountain was masked by the clouds for three days, revealing the glacier occasionally. It was really cold and there was a strong wind; the ambience was very impressive. It reminded me of the world of Tolkien. This place could have been the abode of some ancient gods or giant dragons.

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GANT Rugger Fall / Winter 2013 Classics — ANCHOR DIVISION

I want the jeans and the lined jacket most.

pewresearch: Same-sex marriage (top) and acceptance of...

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Same-sex marriage (top) and acceptance of homosexuality (bottom) around the world.

npr: (via 22 Maps That Show The Deepest Linguistic Conflicts In...

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(via 22 Maps That Show The Deepest Linguistic Conflicts In America)

Joshua Katz, a Ph. D student in statistics at North Carolina State University, just published a group of awesome visualizations of a linguistic survey that looked at how Americans pronounce words.

Among the words he maps are crawfish, syrup, caramel, lawyer, mayonnaise and pecan. He also maps regions by how they refer to a carbonated beverage (the age-old soda or pop question) and how people address groups of two or more people — though as someone who spent time in Pittsburgh, yinz seems to be conspicuously absent. — heidi