The Photo Feed 06.06.07

A Royal Disappointment (Reuters)
Princes Harry and William are “extremely disappointed” after a British TV station disregarded their pleas to pull “graphic” pics of their mother’s final moments from “Diana: The Witnesses in the Tunnel”. Now Brits are divided along party lines over whether the station made the right call.

Iraq Photogs Face Harsher Restrictions (Lightstalkers)
Photog Michael Kamber is back in Iraq these days and doesn’t like what he sees. The government, he says, is making it tougher for photogs to publish pics of soldiers. Worse yet, most of the press refuse to put up a fight, fearing they’ll lose their embed positions.

SF Chronicle Gives Nine Top Editors The Boot (Romanesko/Ghost World)
The San Francisco Chronicle’s masthead is starting to look like it was left in the dryer a little too long. Last week Managing Editor Robert Rosenthal quit. This week, nine top newsroom managers have been cut. While the remaining staffers can look forward to talk of voluntary buyouts, Chronicle Editor Phil Bronstein doesn’t expect to lay off any more managers.

Coverage Of Murdoch-Wall Street Journal Affair Reflects Today’s Trouble With Journalism (Advertising Age)
There’s been fretting a-plenty over editorial integrity and independence in the media’s coverage of Rupert Murdoch’s quest to buy Dow Jones. Advertising Age Publisher Scott Donaton believes this kind of response threatens journalism’s happily ever after.

Karl Rove And Bono Team Up To Get Bush Some Vanity (Washington Post)
Here’s something you might not have expected to see on the cover of Vanity Fair anytime soon: President Bush and Condi Rice. U2’s Bono, the guest editor for the July issue on Africa, talked Bush aide Karl Rove into getting the prez to take time out of his busy day to pose for Annie Leibovitz. After shooting several other high profile types ranging from Barack Obama to George Clooney, Leibovitz says she had to Photoshop the celebs’ portraits together “to unite people for a common purpose.”

French Sports Groups Get In On YouTube Suit (CNET)
YouTube may be increasingly popular among amateurs, but the video-sharing site’s list of enemies just keeps on growing. The Federation Francaise de Tennis and Ligue de Football Professionnel, along with Cherry Lane Music Publishing, have joined a class-action suit accusing YouTube and parent company Google of copyright infringements.

Photog Finally Goes Home One Month After Grizzly Attack (AP)
Let a quiet bear sleep. That’s the lesson Montana photo Jim Cole would be wise to heed after being released from the hospital following his second grizzly run-in. Cole received facial injuries last month when he and his camera riled up a bear in Yellowstone Park.

White Paper Targets Photo Industry (PR Newswire UK)
The International Press Telecommunications Council wants photo agencies to do a better job of cataloguing and searching for images. Last week at the council's annual meeting over 50 delegates from around the globe approved the Photo Metadata Whitepaper, which “outlines … work flow” for photo agencies and makes suggestions for increasing the quantity and kind of metadata embedded in pics.

Picture This: USPS Picks Pond Photo For International Stamp (WebWire)
José Azel probably had no idea how many people would see his pic of a pond in the Okefenokee Swamp. But he had better get used to the idea now that the U.S. Postal Service has issued a 69-cent International Canada and Mexico letter rate stamp featuring the photo.

Mr. Spock Transforms Into A Photog (IrelandOn-Line)
Evidently, there is life after showbiz for the man who played Mr. Spock on Star Trek. In his latest incarnation, actor Leonard Nimoy is a photographer of plus-sized nude women.

Photog Kenro Izu Honored By Hospital (PR Newswire)
Photog Kenro Izu is getting rock star treatment these days. Over 2,600 guests turned out on Monday night to join New York Hospital Queens in honoring Izu for his humanitarian efforts.

Photog Freed For $6K (UPI)
It only took $6,000 for Fernando Calzada to be a free man. The Argentine photog was kidnapped in Panama City last weekend and released 24 hours later once his kidnappers got their ransom. Calzada claims he was in Panama City covering the OAS General Assembly, but he did not have the credentials to prove it.

Murdoch’s British Papers Get Leaner (Gawker)
Just as Rupert Murdoch is trying to fatten his wallet by wooing the Bancroft family into selling Dow Jones to his News Corp., the newsrooms at two of Murdoch’s other holdings are looking a bit gaunt. News of the World and the London Times have cut 50 editorial positions.

Mikael Jannson’s Date With Sienna Miller (Women’s Wear Daily)
Apparently, Sienna Miller has gotten just enough tabloid attention to wow Tod’s. Miller is the first celeb tapped for one of the company’s ad campaigns. The lucky photog? Michael Jansson.

Us Gets Pic Of The Wrong Thong (Jossip)
Us Weekly thought it had scored big when it published a pic of Penelope Cruz wearing a thong at the beach. Turns out the photog got the wrong Cruz. The thong-wearing damsel was actually Cruz’s little sis.

Will Shutterstock Put Celeb Photogs Out Of Biz? (Black Star Rising)
With Shutterstock announcing that it plans to help members get red carpet credentials, Jim Pickerell thinks things are looking grim for professional celeb photogs. Will Shutterstock’s cheap subscriptions make the red carpet far less lucrative for pros?

Dow Jones Employees Just Say No To Murdoch (Washington Post)
Apparently, Wall Street Journal employees don’t want to call media mogul Rupert Murdoch “boss.” The union that represents WSJ staffers is trying to woo other billionaires in what Frank Ahrens calls the ABBR (Any Billionaire But Rupert) strategy.

Photog Among Long List of Minneapolis Star Tribune Departures (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
Photog Stormi Greener is among the 47 Star Tribune newsroom staffers on their way out with the aid of a voluntary buyout program. Coming soon: even more departures, as voluntary buyout applications continue to be evaluated.

Photo Author Richard Whelan Dies (State of the Art)
Photog biographer Richard Whelan has died. The cause of his death has not been made public. Whelan will be buried in upstate New York today next to photog Robert Capa, the subject of one of his bios. Whelan also penned bios about Alfred Stieglitz and photojournalist and International Center of Photography founder Cornell Capa (Robert Capa’s brother). Whelan was the consulting curator of the Robert and Cornell Capa archives at the ICP and a faculty member at the ICP school.

Jupiterimages Gets A New Marketing VP (About The Image)
Kendall Higbee is “thrilled” these days. After holding prominent marketing positions a Corbis, MediaVast and JBGPhoto, Higbee has been named Jumpiterimages’ VP of Marketing.