Sandra Roa Archives
17 Posts
Chatting the Pictures Video May 27, 2018

Chatting the Pictures: Royal Wedding; Santa Fe Massacre; Trump Summit Coin

RTP’s Michael Shaw and Cara Finnegan meet up Saturday mornings for a lively twenty-five minutes chat about three current news photos.

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Chatting the Pictures Video April 12, 2018

Chatting the Pictures: MLK 50, Gaza Mirrors, Trump Script

Welcome to our latest edition of Chatting the Pictures. This week, we focus on photos from the 50th anniversary of the Martin Luther King assassination, protests in Gaza, and Donald Trump throwing away a script.

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Chatting the Pictures Video April 1, 2018

Chatting the Pictures: Emma Gonzales, Stephon Clark Protest, Sessions TIME Cover

Welcome to our latest edition of Chatting the Pictures. This week, we focus on one photo from Sacramento and two from Washington.

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Chatting the Pictures Video March 5, 2018

Chatting the Pictures: Hope Hicks, Gun Prayer & Putin Oz

Watch the latest edition of Chatting the Pictures, our 25-minute weekly webcast. This week, we look at the media spectacle from Capitol Hill to Pennsylvania to Moscow.

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Cara Finnegan Video February 25, 2018

Chatting the Pictures: Youth Take Center Stage

Everywhere you looked this week, young people dominated the political dialogue.

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Chatting the Pictures Video February 18, 2018

Chatting the Pictures: White House Blind Loyalty; Obamas in Paint; Parkland Youth Take the Mics

Watch our latest chat with RTP's Michael Shaw and Cara Finnegan. It's a lively and unique 20-minute webcast looking at key photos of the week.

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Business Focus Video February 11, 2018

Chatting the Pictures: Trump Cheerleaders; Super Bowl Body; SpaceX Starman

Hey, we’re back with another news photo chat! Watch RTP's Michael Shaw and Cara Finnegan riff for 20 minutes or so about three headline photos.

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Politics Photo April 7, 2017

Watch: Key Pictures from Trump’s First 100 Days: The Reading the Pictures Salon

In this latest edition of the Reading the Pictures Salon, a distinguished panel reads key pictures from the first 100 days of the Trump Presidency.

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BagNewsSalon Slideshow Interviews Photo October 1, 2016

How Science is Pictured in the Media and Public Culture: A Joint Reading the Pictures/Seeing Science (UMBC) Salon

This joint Reading the Pictures/UMBC Salon is interested in science as a social agenda and how science images are being portrayed in visual culture.

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BagNewsSalon Slideshow Interviews Photo October 17, 2010

Mike Kamber: Military Censorship — (Update: Winner of POYi Award of Excellence)

Reading the Pictures is pleased to offer this exclusive audio slideshow featuring an interview with Michael Kamber, contract war photographer for the New York Times, and a focused look at the issue of military censorship, including photos he's insisted on being seen.

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John Moore Photo July 10, 2010

BagNewsSalon: The Great Oil Spill

Slideshow, video archive and selected quotes from the online BagNewsSalon: Looking at America's Great Oil Spill, held Sunday, July 18. Featuring John Moore - photographer/Getty Pictures; Erika Blumenfeld - Artist and Documentary Photographer; Kari Goodnough - photographer/Bloomberg Photos; Loret Steinberg - Professor of Photojournalism and Documentary Photography/R.I.T.; Nathan Stormer...

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Visual Week in Review: McChrystal Falls, Those Ain’t Snowballs, Soccer=Kumbaya?

Today's Visual Week in Review looks at political spin (tar balls --not snowballs -- have hit Pensacola!); the media's addiction to drama (Afghanistan was a snoozer till McChrystal's head rolled); and global kumbaya as a World Cup marketing fantasy.

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Jon Lowenstein: Aftershock Haiti

BagNewsSalon presents Jon Lowenstein's photos from Haiti in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in his own words.

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Visual Week in Review: Coming to the Surface

This BagNewsSalon Visual Week in Review takes a look at the increasingly visible oil disaster in the Gulf, the Republicans "getting more graphic" in election season, the cast change (and Viagra injection) in British politics, and Obama's new nominee to the Supreme Court.

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Visual Week in Review: Damage Control

The BagNews Visual Week in Review looks at the political week in photos. This week, "the damage" extended from Louisiana and the Gulf, to Times Square, to the British election.

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BagNewsSalon Visual Week In Review Photo April 30, 2010

Visual Week in Review: Natural and Unnatural

BagNewsSalon’s Visual Week in Review looks at what's natural and unnatural in the coverage of violent volcanoes and oil spills, as well as political rock stars and the White House vs. Wall Street image war.

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BagNewsSalon Visual Week In Review Photo April 20, 2010

Visual Week in Review (4.16.10): Obama’s Nuke Summit

BagNewsSalon's Visual Week in Review for 4/14/10 looks at Obama's Nuclear Disarmament Summit in Washington.

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