http://scottanger.com Sun, 30 May 2010 13:39:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://scottanger.com http://scottanger.com/wp-content/mbp-favicon/favicon.ico http://scottanger.com/2010/05/17/moving-forward/ http://scottanger.com/2010/05/17/moving-forward/#comments Mon, 17 May 2010 15:13:00 +0000 Scott Anger http://scottanger.com/?p=868 I have decided to step down from my position as Director of Video at The Los Angeles Times.  It was a difficult decision to make. Journalism of the highest caliber continues to be practiced at the LA Times on an hourly basis by a staff of amazing visual journalists and writers.  My time at the organization was filled [...] Related posts:

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]]> http://scottanger.com/2010/05/17/moving-forward/feed/ 1 http://scottanger.com/2009/11/19/photographing-the-changing-climate/ http://scottanger.com/2009/11/19/photographing-the-changing-climate/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:05:15 +0000 Scott Anger http://scottanger.com/?p=661 While looking for a story about climate change in North America, photographer Nina Berman stumbled upon a tiny subject with a huge impact.  The Mountain Pine Beetle is an 8 mm-long (about 1/3 of an inch) insect that is killing millions of acres of forest across Canada and the northern United States.  Its spread has [...] Related posts:

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]]> http://scottanger.com/2009/11/19/photographing-the-changing-climate/feed/ 0 http://scottanger.com/2009/11/14/documentary-to-be-distributed-via-usa-today-newspaper/ http://scottanger.com/2009/11/14/documentary-to-be-distributed-via-usa-today-newspaper/#comments Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:28:04 +0000 Scott Anger http://scottanger.com/?p=640 DOCUMENTARY FILM TO BE DISTRIBUTED VIA NEWSPAPER – Gannett has announced that its newspapers will distribute one million copies of a documentary film made by the organization The Smile Train, which helps children in developing countries.  The film, “Smile Pinki”, follows Pinki, a young girl in rural India whose life is transformed when she receives [...] Related posts:

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]]> http://scottanger.com/2009/11/14/documentary-to-be-distributed-via-usa-today-newspaper/feed/ 0 http://scottanger.com/2009/10/15/new-york-times-announces-launch-of-san-francisco-section/ http://scottanger.com/2009/10/15/new-york-times-announces-launch-of-san-francisco-section/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:06:01 +0000 Scott Anger http://scottanger.com/?p=610 NEW YORK TIMES ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF SAN FRANCISCO SECTION – The New York Times has announced that it will begin publishing pages with local content in the San Francisco Bay area Fridays and Sundays. Related posts:Report says New York Times journalist kidnapped in Afghanistan Documentary to be distributed via USA Today newspaper Los Angeles Times [...] Related posts:

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]]> http://scottanger.com/2009/10/15/new-york-times-announces-launch-of-san-francisco-section/feed/ 0 http://scottanger.com/2009/10/15/huffington-post-passes-la-times-and-washpost-in-unique-visitors/ http://scottanger.com/2009/10/15/huffington-post-passes-la-times-and-washpost-in-unique-visitors/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:40:50 +0000 Scott Anger http://scottanger.com/?p=597 According to a site comparison for the month of September on Compete.com, Huffington Post has surpassed both the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post in unique online visitors.  All three sites register over eight million unique visitors but the growth rate for Huffington Post over the past year has been about 56.7 percent while [...] Related posts:

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]]> http://scottanger.com/2009/10/15/huffington-post-passes-la-times-and-washpost-in-unique-visitors/feed/ 0 http://scottanger.com/2009/09/08/nyt-reporter-freed-in-afghanistan/ http://scottanger.com/2009/09/08/nyt-reporter-freed-in-afghanistan/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:17:35 +0000 Scott Anger http://scottanger.com/?p=527 Stephen Farrell, a correspondent for The New York Times held hostage by militant for four days, has been freed in a commando raid in northern Afghanistan.  His interpreter, Sultan Munadi, and a British commando were reportedly killed during the operation.  The two men were abducted Saturday while reporting on the aftermath of a NATO airstrike [...] Related posts:

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