Jay Defoore and David Walker of Photo District News have compiled a short list of newspapers that successfully display images in their pages and make it a great place to work, if you are a photojournalist.

You have to be a “subscriber” to get the goods and I am not about to copy and paste it all here, including internship info that is priceless. That should be incentive for those of you considering a subscription.

Allow me, however, to whet your appetite a bit. Here is the alphabetical list that the duo has published online :

Albuquerque Tribune
Concord Monitor
Evansville Courier & Press
Hartford Courant
Jasper Herald
The Los Angeles Times
Naples Daily News
The New York Times
The Oregonian
The Palm Beach Post
Rocky Mountain News
State Journal-Register
Washington Post
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Memphis Commercial Appeal

One glaring omission in my mind is The Virginian-Pilot. The photo and design team on that newspaper have consistently made that newspaper sing.

Now, it's your turn. Are there any newspapers that should have made this list but didnt? Enter the link or links in the comments section and tell me how and why they should qualify.

Via Jeremy Hedley

Gomma is a new independent photographic magazine that showcases international photographers. The site takes some time to download. You will need to have Flash Player installed. The photography and the presentation on Gomma, using today's technology – a marriage of the two is paramount – is terrific here. Check it out!

Via NPPA

The Gordon Parks Center for Culture & Diversity at Fort Scott Community College began the Gordon Parks International Photography Competition in 1989 to honor Fort Scott's most famous photographer, Gordon Parks. Each year the college awards prizes of $1,000, $500 and $250 to photographers whose images reflect the important themes in the life and works of Gordon Parks. The competition has become a showcase for the best of American documentary and news photography.

2005 Gordon Parks International Photo Competition is now seeking your entries.

Via John Laxmi

In a New York Times Op-Ed, Dutch photojournalist Hubert Van Es reminisces about his work at the very end of the Vietnam War. It is an interesting perspective on a series of images he made under a great amount of stress.

What is particularly of interest is that the captions that accompanied Van Es' images of the helicopter flying off with Vietnamese refugees were incorrectly edited. By the time the images were published world-wide it had come to be known as the helicopter that launched off of the US Embassy in Saigon. Van Es swears that the helicopter actually had landed on top of an apartment building that housed a CIA official.

Despite the incorrect caption, the images have stayed in our collective imagination as a symbol of the US defeat in Vietnam. While mistakes are made I have to wonder what images from Iraq can we expect to be incorrectly captioned, especially when the media is herded [nay, embedded] from one area of the country to another in some unqualified military formation.

Dave LaBelle's reprint of what I call a classic, must-have book for all photojournalists – staff, freelancers, students –The Great Picture Hunt, is out again.

“Like stalking wild game or unearthing hidden treasure, shooting good feature pictures requires instinct and skill.”

More on this book in the near future, but I wanted to pass this info along to you so that you can support this long-running project and much sought after book. I am really drooling over my copy.