Author: William A. Babcock

The missed photo that wasn’t

BY WILLIAM A. BABCOCK / Dozens of the United States’ best sports photo journalists are not vying today – Friday – to take the Major League Baseball photo of the year. That photo would have shown Terry Francona, the manager of the Cleveland Indians, walking past the “green monster” wall in Boston’s

Good news, bad news from Cleveland

Cleveland is used to bad press. First there was the water: The Cuyahoga River caught on fire in the1960s and Lake Erie was pronounced “dead.” Then there’s sports: LeBron James flees the city, the Browns fail to win a single Super Bowl and the Indians are the second-worst baseball team on the planet. Then along

Pointing and clicking is not enough

AFP photographer Emmanuel Dunard’s photo of a praying Aline Marie at a Newtown, Conn., church brings up an issue where many photojournalists and members of the public disagree. Marie considered her praying outside the St. Rose of Lima church on the night of the shootings to be a private moment. She says she “felt like