A tropical storm, a college basketball program and some angry Chinese farmers are dominating the attention of contributors to NowPublic, the "crowd-powered media" site The Associated Press is working with to selectively incorporate citizen journalism -– especially photos and video -– into its news report.
Listen to this audio clip
to learn more from NowPublic's Brian Kennedy.
-- Eric Carvin
(AP Photo/EyePress)
"No, this is not RoboCop."
That's how Michael Feldman, the AP's international photo editor, introduced this photo of a law enforcement officer in Zhengzhou, China. The officer was showing off body armor and a gun that shoots a net to catch dogs.
Meanwhile, a few hundred miles up the road, baseball legend Cal Ripken Jr. has some fun during a clinic he's conducting for kids in Beijing.
(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
See below for more of Feldman's top photo picks.
-- Eric Carvin
Baseball, cardboard tubes and the anniversary of a journalist's death are dominating the attention of contributors to NowPublic, the "crowd-powered media" site The Associated Press is working with to selectively incorporate citizen journalism -– especially photos and video -– into its news report.
Listen to this audio clip
to learn more from NowPublic's Brian Kennedy.
-- Eric Carvin
(AP Photos/Eduardo Di Baia/Charles Dharapak)
It's not an episode of "Wife Swap." It's Argentina's presidential election. Partial election results
indicate that President Nestor Kirchner and first lady Cristina
Fernandez will switch roles in December. That would make Fernandez the country's first elected female president. Sound sorta familiar?
In this audio clip, the AP's Niko Price discusses the comparisons between Fernandez and Sen. Hillary Clinton.
Read Price's story about the election here.
-- Derrik J. Lang
(AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)
(AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)
Two of the images highlighted by AP International Photo Editor Michael Feldman at the AP global news meeting came from East Timor, where pilgrims traveled to a Christ statue on Matebian Mountain -- formerly the site of a rebel base.
Some claim that, in 1978, thousands of Timorese were killed at the base in fighting with Indonesia forces.
See below for more of the AP photos Feldman chose to highlight at the meeting. (Though Rockies fans might want to cover their eyes.)
-- Eric Carvin
The latest reports on the California wildfires -- including an AP story on the impact of red tape on response times -- are dominating the attention of contributors to NowPublic, the "crowd-powered media" site The Associated Press is working with to selectively incorporate citizen journalism -– especially photos and video -– into its news report.
NowPublic contributors are also debating the new route for the next Tour de France, and some are salivating over a new Honda motorcycle.
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to learn more from NowPublic's Brian Kennedy.
-- Eric Carvin
(AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
This photo, of a child at play -- with a toy rocket-propelled grenade launcher -- is one of several images highlighted at this morning's AP global news meeting by AP Photo Supervisor Jim Collins.
The picture was taken in Sadr City, a Shiite enclave of Baghdad.
Collins also pointed out the photo below, shot outside Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' headquarters in the West Bank City of Ramallah. The boy in the image is holding up a portrait of relatives jailed by Israel, as part of a demonstration calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners.
(AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
See below for more of Collins' top-photo picks of the moment.
-- Eric Carvin
Arson in California, Turks and Armenians fighting in Belgium and the first passenger flight of the superjumbo A380 are dominating the attention of contributors to NowPublic, the "crowd-powered media" site The Associated Press is working with to selectively incorporate citizen journalism -– especially photos and video -– into its news report.
Listen to this audio clip
to learn more from NowPublic's Brian Kennedy.
-- Eric Carvin
(AP Photo/Winslow Townson)
"The Red Sox did a lot of this last night."
That's how Madge Stager, the AP's chief picture editor in New York, introduced this photo of Boston's Kevin Youkilis sliding into home plate at the World Series opener -- one of several images she highlighted at this morning's AP global news meeting.
"And the Rockies," she said, moving on to a photo of Colorado pitcher Franklin Morales, "did a lot of that."
See below for other AP photos Stager showcased at the meeting.
-- Eric Carvin
(AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
More fires in California, and a citizen journalism experiment in Canada.
That's what's dominating the attention of contributors to NowPublic, the "crowd-powered media" site The Associated Press is working with to selectively incorporate citizen journalism -– especially photos and video -– into its news report.
Listen to this audio clip
to learn more from NowPublic's Brian Kennedy.
-- Eric Carvin
