“The New York Times published an editors’ note April 18 acknowledging that a six-column color photo in the April 17 paper had been digitally retouched.
A photograph on the front of the Metro Section, showing a house washing away in floodwaters in Connecticut, was taken by a Times staff member who is not a staff [...]

PCWorld Reports:
“Gateway’s brand name will not only live on after Acer buys the company, it will expand, Acer said. People fearing they might miss Gateway’s signature black-and-white dairy cow PC boxes after the company is acquired by Acer have little reason to worry: Acer not only plans to keep the Gateway brand just [...]

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“Nikon unveils its first full-frame DSLR, the 12.1-megapixel D3. Also, a new 12.3MP DX-sized D300 is added to the lineup, along with an army of pro lenses. 
 
After years of rumor and speculation, there is now a very impressive full-frame Nikon digital SLR, the Nikon D3. This 12.1-megapixel camera, aimed at sports, nature, and news [...]

“Sierra Leone is emerging from one of the most vicious and long-lasting civil wars in the history of West Africa. Between 1991 and 2002, over 50,000 children and young people were traumatized by their activities as combatants in the hostilities. On a per capita basis, the tragedy is similar in scope to some of the [...]

Artist: Dennis Potokar www.artgroop.com
Assignment/Project: A Hero Hot Dog with sun-dried tomato strips on it.
Notes: This is a real ‘bread and butter’ job. Sometimes you can’t get everything you need in a shot, even if you work on it all day. So, you have to resort to retouching, in this case, rebuilding a quality hot dog [...]

“Positivity reigns supreme on a colorful new site promoting New Balance’s NB Zip product line. Executed by agency Almighty, the site transfers NB’s “Energy in, Energy Out” commercial message into an interactive experience whose spokesman is a porcupine named JD, a character who is at the center of a web-exclusive spot that circulated on portals [...]

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FolioMag reports:
“Pushing ahead with its comparatively aggressive digital strategy, Hearst this week announced a pair of mobile site launches—m.bazaar.com (Harper’s Bazaar) and m.marieclaire.com (Marie Claire)—bringing the current number of sites within Hearst’s existing mobile portfolio to nine. (Cosmo, CosmoGirl, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, House Beautiful, Seventeen and Redbook have all been given the “m.” treatment.) According [...]