Tag: Simon Barnett

  • CNN Digital hires Director of Photography

    Link: CNN Digital welcomes Simon Barnett, who starts today as Director of Photography.  In this role, Barnett will oversee how the network’s photography will be used across CNN’s web, tablet, mobile, and emerging platforms, as well as lead the vision for integrating photography into CNN’s multimedia journalism efforts.  He is based at CNN’s global headquarters…

  • Newsweek’s Top Photo Editor Leaving

    “The photographic vision for the magazine is not one that I can any longer be considered a good fit for,” Simon Barnett said in an e-mail. He added, “Pictures tend to be used as part of an overall design conceit, not as art in and of itself. I think it’s called modern, which would seem…