Andrew Stanfill

It would be cool when people post videos or photos like this during breaking news events they include the source, especially given the widespread use of AI generated video.

The USA And Israel Have Started Bombing Iran: A Primer What Do We Know, What Should We Be Asking?, For What Should We Be Watching

The USA and Israel have started bombing Iran and Trump has announced an explicit political goal, full regime change for the Iranian people. Air power is certainly about to have a moment. I put together this free primer on what we know and what we should be asking. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Gen Z is reviving DVDs and Blu-rays, with local video rental shops reporting record months and membership numbers as young people embrace physical media.

Read more: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

If you’re cold, they’re cold.

Yet again, I am begging y’all to credit the content you are sharing. Aside from it being the right thing to do, in this day and age, it really helps with media literacy and AI fakery. The CNN watermark is not enough, IMO. Took me abt 30s in Google to find Kenny Holston/NYT/Pool

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Twitter: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver and team do a great job here of explaining how Twitter/X is a cesspool and why you shouldn’t go anywhere near it. Only thing it misses is new research showing that its right-biased algorithm “works” in that it shifts users’ views rightward. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG...

The European Union’s anti-disinformation team has put out a short documentary on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and how the information space was defended along with the physical.

Best of Photojournalism judging weekend is underway! 78 categories, five divisions, well over 150 judges and an inspiring group of student volunteers — it takes a village…

California's E-bike Accountability Act seeks to ensure safety, requiring owners to register their rides with DMV The proposed e-bike registration law seeks to introduce mandatory DMV registration and license plates for Class 2 and Class 3 e-bikes.

Moral panic around e-bikes is getting out of control.

The assemblywoman proposing this bill is quoted in the article saying she has concerns abt people riding "30,40, even 60 mph" -- those are not e-bikes! Those are e-motos!

www.cbs8.com/article/news...

Few say Americans have a responsibility to pay for news Funding is central to the sustainability of journalism. Yet few Americans pay for news, and most say paying for it isn't their responsibility.

The downside of news' advertising model: it shifted true cost of producing news to advertisers, training generations of consumers to expect quality journalism for low or no cost. Pew released a survey echoing that; Americans feel little responsibility to pay for news. READ: https://loom.ly/C-j1mQQ

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

In an internal memo in May, Meta laid out its plans to release facial recognition in its smart glasses, to the blind first, & then to the general public.

“Civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

as a historian, I hold a particular contempt for resellers on auction sites who are selling prints of "press photos" from the morgues of papers . . . but they haven't kept the name of the newspaper. so there's no provenance; they've got whatever was written on the back of the print, but no paper.

"difficult decisions have been taken" is an all-time use of the passive voice

Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure

“I’m glad Will Lewis has been fired. I wish it had happened before he fired all my friends.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...

Before Berlin’s Cowboys Are Booted Off Their Land, One Final Hoedown

On that reference point. Germans were infatuated with the American West. Berlin’s faux American town is just closing after decades of role play. Gift Link www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/w...

The NPPA is deeply saddened by news of the massive layoffs at The Washington Post & the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. At the Post, we understand they have laid off all of their 9 staff photographers & 6 of their 12 photo editors.

Read the full statement here:
nppa.org/news/832

The Minnesota Star Tribune is hiring an investigative reporter — it's an incredibly important time for this kind of journalism (like, no doy). Apply here: recruiting2.ultipro.com/STA1013/JobB...

The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom

Remember this one? “Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom.” Proven science via Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social #CityMakingMath

A very cool border collie wearing goggles rides in a side car on a bicycle with the text Ice Out decorating it.

A crowd of cyclists gather before the ride.

Cyclists make their way toward downtown Bellingham.

Cyclists ride along the Bellingham waterfront.

Cyclists, and at least one dog, gathered in one of two rides happening in Bellingham on Saturday to join the Ride in Unity events happening around the world.

Still some winter ahead, but a weekend of rain on the slopes instead of snow after a long dry spell is not encouraging for the summer.

This Cheeky Hi-Vis Vest Helped Score a Win for Winter Bike Lanes in this Town Speed River Bicycle’s “I’d Rather Be in the Bike Lane” Hi-Vis Vest is exactly that kind of quietly effective protest.

Speed River Bicycle’s “I’d Rather Be in the Bike Lane” Hi-Vis Vest grew out of a local push for better bike lane maintenance in Guelph, Ontario after Mayor Cam Guthrie pulled the plug on winter clearing as a cost-cutting measure.
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The Washington Post's International, Immigration, National Security and Climate journalists – reporters, writers, editors, photographers, videographers – work in concert to produce independent, revelatory reporting that holds power to account wherever in the world it is wielded

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NPPA warns its members of an extremely broad NOTAM, or Notice to Airmen, imposing Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs) on drone use within 3,000 feet laterally and 1,000 feet above ground level of facilities and “mobile assets,” including “ground vehicle convoys,”…

NPPA joins coalition urging FAA to withdraw sweeping drone restrictions affecting ICE coverage NPPA joins coalition urging FAA to withdraw sweeping drone restrictions affecting ICE coverage NPPA warns its members of an extremely broad NOTAM, or Notice to Airmen, imposing Temporary Flight Restri...

The @nppa.org has joined a group of news organizations in calling for an end to the recent FAA restrictions for drone use near ICE actions. nppa.org/news/827

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE

Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

NPPA 'Emphatically Opposes' White House's Manipulation of Journalistic Images The NPPA has issues a statement noting its "firm opposition" to the manipulation of journalistic images by the White House.

“The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) has issues [sic] a statement noting its ‘firm opposition’ to the manipulation of journalistic images by the White House, saying it doing so was meant to purposely mislead the public.” Article link. 👇

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

The National Press Photographers Association today joined in a statement issued by the National Association of Black Journalists, alongside a coalition of journalism and press freedom organizations reaffirming our commitment to protect the constitutional rights…

It's the final day for 2026 BOP entries. Submission window closes at 11:59 PT. Best of luck and thank you for joining us in honoring and celebrating the work of visual journalists around the globe. Enter Now: bop.nppa.org/2026

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale

Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools