Editor & Publisher reports: 
“NEW YORK The Associated Press has named Guinevere Smith the National Entertainment Photo Editor. Smith had been with Getty Images since 1999, most recently as North American manager for field editing. Smith succeeds Dan Becker, who was named AP director of entertainment content in January. Smith, who will be based in Los [...]

 Nicolai Ouroussaff reports for The New York Times:

“The growing possibility that much of the multibillion-dollar Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn will be scrapped because of a lack of financing may be a bitter pill for its developer, Forest City Ratner. But it’s also a painful setback for urban planning in New York.
Designed by Frank [...]

 Nicolai Ourassouff reports for The New York Times:
“THE HL23 tower, planned for a site on 23rd Street in Chelsea, is the kind of commission Neil Denari has being waiting for his entire working life. Mr. Denari, a Los Angeles architect who once ran the Southern California Institute of Architecture, has labored on the profession’s periphery [...]

Steve Lohr reports for The New York Times: 
“IN 1991, Stewart Alsop, the editor of InfoWorld and a thoughtful observer of industry trends, predicted that the last mainframe computer would be unplugged by 1996. Last month, I.B.M. introduced the latest version of its mainframe, the aged yet remarkably resilient warhorse of computing.
Today, mainframe sales are [...]

David Pogue reports for The New York Times:
“Well, this is a little embarrassing. One of the most significant electronics products of the year slipped into the market, became a mega-hit, changed its industry — and I haven’t reviewed it yet.
Lately, my guilt has deepened every time someone whips this thing out to show off. “Look [...]

By Marianne Combs of Minnesota Public Radio:
“August Sander is considered by many photographers to be the father of the modern portrait. He’s influenced the likes of Diane Arbus, Irving Penn, and Walker Evans. An exhibition of a selection of his portraits is now on display at the Weinstein Gallery in Minneapolis.
Minneapolis, Minn. — [...]

By Eli Rosenblatt of The Jewish Daily Forward:
“When you look at a photograph that depicts an act of violence — or, in the case of Lane H. Montgomery’s new photography book, “Never Again, Again, Again” (Ruder Finn), an act of genocide — you might assume that the photographer took a substantial amount of time to [...]

By Laura Nathan of PDNonline.com:
“German photographer Hans-Christian Schink has won the first REAL Photography Award, which ING Real Estate presents biannually to an international photographer shooting nature, development or architecture. Schink received the €50,000 (about $77,100) prize at a ceremony in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on March 20. Schink was awarded the prize for his black-and-white [...]

 Randy Kennedy reports for The New York Times:
“Philip Jones Griffiths, a crusading photojournalist whose pictures of civilian casualties and suffering were among the defining images of the war in Vietnam, died on Wednesday at his home in London. He was 72.

The cause was cancer, said Richard Hughes, an actor and activist who befriended Mr. Griffiths [...]

Karl Vogel reports for The New York Times:
“Leonard A. Lauder, the cosmetics executive and chairman of the Whitney Museum of American Art, said on Tuesday that his art foundation would give the museum $131 million, the biggest donation in the Whitney’s 77-year history.
The bulk of the money — $125 million — will go toward [...]