The folks over at Bonanzle have coffee cups that resemble various makes of camera lenses! They even come in appropriately-branded packaging. Check them out!

July 7, 2010 -  The Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism recently surveyed 490 hours of local news reports in the Los Angeles area and found what most people who watch local news probably already knew: It's dreadful. --- Radley Balko, Reason.com

For Full Story: http://reason.com/archives/2010/07/07/a-case-study-in-local-news-fut#com...

Images that have appeared on BP's oil leak response website appear to be doctored, or photoshopped. 

For full story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1296764/did-bp-photo-s...

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PPAGLA members are invited to attend the International Fire Photographers Association one-day fire photography workshop to be held in Burbank on August 7, 2010.

Topics will cover the basics of fireground photography, fireground safety, low-light/night photography, apparatus, structure, rescue and wildland fire photography.

For more information go to:  

http://www.firegroundaction.com/?page_id=1932

July 2, 2010- A Los Angeles County Superior Court Jury on Friday awarded $1.7 million to a camera operator from Fox's KTTV-TV Channel 11 News who was knocked to the ground by police during the 2007 May Day melee in MacArthur Park. -- Los Angeles Times

For Full Story go to:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/07/jury-awards-17-million-to-...