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Triplepundit.com: Endgame: Understanding a Global Climate Imperative

“Rosenblum’s assertion moves far beyond what may or may not be accomplished in Copenhagen this week. For him, it is not simply about establishing limits or carbon markets. It is about a wholesale shift in the way we as a society operate, organized by globalized political and economic systems.”

“The heavy-handedness of the title of the photo essay speaks to what the people behind Dispatches view as the great imperative facing our culture. We are on the brink of calamity, yet very few people are heeding the whirl of the emergency sirens.”

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BBC Viewfinder blog: Dispatches

“But context adds meaning, and these pictures when seen in the context of Dispatches, alongside the essays do give you a insight into the issues at hand, draw you in and perhaps entice you to seek out more information.”

“The pictures speak for themselves, you can interpret them yourself, get the grey matter working and analyse each frame. It’s certainly liberating, not having to read captions on each picture.”

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NYT Lens blog: Showcase: A Magazine Worth Its Price

“Dispatches is an audacious undertaking, beautifully produced, visually sophisticated and intellectually stimulating.”

“Is there an audience that will support serious photography, produced without editorial pressures or commercial constraints? That’s up to us to answer.”

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Mort Rosenblum on WPR’s Here on Earth

On 15 June, Mort discusses dispatches “Out of Poverty” with Wisconsin Public Radio’s Jean Feraca (you can download an MP3 of the interview here.

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War Photography Almost Too Close for Comfort, Foreign Policy Association blog

“A noteworthy group of photojournalists gathered at photo agency VII’s Brooklyn studio last week. The small group represented some of the cream of photojournalists that had gathered in NYC for the recent New York Photo Festival.”

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Top Photojournalists at Brooklyn Gallery

The Epoch Times’ review of the opening of “Amongst the Poor” on 21 May and the discussion on War Photography by Gary Knight, Tim Hetherington, and Stephen Mayes on the 22 May at VII Gallery.

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Gary Knight’s Newsweek Japan Blog

Gary Knight’s new blog for Newsweek Japan, “A Photographer’s Notebook” can be found here.

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2008 OPC Award Winner

The Overseas Press Club of America awarded Yuri Kozyrev a Citation for the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award for his photographs in dispatches‘ second issue, “Beyond Iraq.”

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Dispatches: a new publication defining a new category, Exposure Compensation, April 2009

“All I can say is ‘go and subscribe’.”

“A new publication that defines a new category. Each issue, one topic. Each issue, multiple views of diverse thinking. Each issue, excellence in photography.”

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dispatches_On Russia, Conscientious, April 2009

“For the [historical collection of portrait photography] alone “on russia” is worth the money, and there are quite a few articles that you probably want to read if you want to get an idea about what is going on in Russia. So check it out!”

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Media Moguls Discuss New Ventures in Global Reporting, Epoch Times, 1 April 2009

“We’re trying to occupy this shrinking space of ‘smart journalism,’” said Keith Richburg, a contributing writer to Dispatches magazine. Richburg, who is the New York bureau chief of The Washington Post, said Dispatches was created by journalists in the spirit of analyzing and understanding important issues.

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Designing Dispatches, PDN magazine, January 2009

“We are referencing dispatches from centuries ago — the Civil War, Crimean War, World War I,” explains Gary Knight. “Back then, the printed word was all people had. This is what we think dispatches should be.”

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5 Stars, Review, Amateur Photographer, 17 January 2009

“There isn’t anything I can compare it with to help you to see more clearly what the magazine is, but maybe imagine the international news pages of The Sunday Times, crossed with what Time magazine should be, a good edition of TV’s Panorama, and a grown-up version of National Geographic, and you’ll be almost there.”

“If you are interested in an alternative view of world affairs and appreciate great photojournalism, I recommend dispatches.”

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Men’s Reading: January, Gear Patrol: The Definitive Men’s Lifestyle and Leisure Journal

“Rule: A Man Should Be Halfway Through A Book At Any Given Time”

“We’re firm believers of the web and all its “right-now” glory, but the traditional bound & wound will continue to have a place in our hearts and bedside tables…”

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Rip up The Rule Book, Monocle, Dec 08/Jan 09

“Return of depth in journalism. Finally, quality is back.”

“Created by a veteran war photographer, a foreign correspondent, and a financier nostalgic for a quality news journal, dispatches provides the depth missing from the fast-paced sensationalism of what passes for journalism nowadays.”

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Going Long, Melanie Lidman, American Journalism Review, August/September 2008

“Reading dispatches is like undergoing a cold turkey detox in the face of today’s endless cycle of updates and headlines. Forgoing the shorter, front-of-the-book articles found in many magazines, it immerses readers in an in-depth report, beginning with the first page. The sparseness of design, refreshing in its simplicity, is a shock to the multitasking, visually overloaded modern brain.”

“‘It comes off at first as an intellectual elite thing,’ said Robbie Blinkoff, managing director at Context-Based Research Group, after looking at dispatches. ‘But the reality is, I think everyone is looking for this.’”

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MrMagazine.com

“In short, dispatches is the answer to anyone who thinks that print is dead.”

“dispatches is worth every penny.”

“From the outside, this new mook (part magazine, part book) looks like a file with a stiff cover and a pocket in the back for a poster and the subscription cards, and, on the inside, it offers four great essays and a wonderful collection of photography. All themed and dedicated to a new subject in each issue.”

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Mort Rosenblum on Dispatches, Brent Cunningham, Columbia Journalism Review

“New quarterly bucks industry trend, exudes smart idealism”

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John Loomis, Drinking with a Dead Man

“All in all it’s an incredible effort and forecasts nothing but deeply provocative, free-form journalism and photography ahead in its first year.”

“Its not supposed to be rare and destined for a seldom-dusted photo shelf, but instead useful, read, and even dog-eared.”

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John Stoehr, Charleston City Paper

“No Single America: In the run-up to the presidential elections, a new quarterly helps us to understand who we think we are.”

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Natalie Chillington, Online Journalism Blog

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Dispatches: Photography in context, Steve Fairclough, Canon Professional Network

“Almost alone among today’s information-rich, digital age with news media often appearing instantaneously online, the new current affairs quarterly, dispatches, has chosen to take a different approach—an in-depth photo essay by one photographer combined with expansive political articles. Steve Fairclough finds out why.”

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Dispatches magazine prefers print over Internet, Robert MacMillan, Reuters

“A pall hangs over the word ‘print’ these days, but the editors of a new magazine bet that discerning readers want news analysis on paper and don’t mind getting it just four times a year.”

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Dispatches—A Magazine for the Future, Rob Haggart, APhotoEditor.com

“I’m told Antonin Kratochvil has an 80 page photo essay repeat, 80 goddam pages of photography from a month long trip across the US. Holy shit that’s awesome. The topic for the second issue is Beyond Iraq and will feature photographer Yuri Kozyrev. Awesome again.”

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Break out of the photographic ghetto, Diane Smyth, British Journal of Photography

“Gary Knight’s Dispatches magazine is an interesting development on many levels…”

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Una nuova rivista, Dispatches: In America, Sguardi online

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Photojournalism and the news, Miguel Garcia-Guzman, Exposure Compensation

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