Tag: Michele McNally

Lessons Learned From Michele McNally – The New York Times

Lessons Learned From Michele McNally

Two photographers share how Michele McNally, who shepherded a new age of photography at The New York Times, touched their lives and work.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/05/insider/lessons-learned-from-michele-mcnally.html

She wanted to teach me photo editing to better inform my photography. For months, we met at 7 a.m. to look through 75 years of Fortune magazine photography at what is now called the Life Picture Collection. She’d explain to me her vision of a successful frame, what she looked for in a photographic composition and why some images had become icons. We’d sift through the hundreds of folders each morning before the workday began.

April 6, 2022
Michele McNally, First New York Times Photography Director, Dies at 66 — Blind Magazine

Michele McNally, First New York Times Photography Director, Dies at 66 — Blind Magazine

Michele McNally, the first photography director of The New York Times who brought photojournalism to new heights, died on February 18 from complications of pneumonia in a hospital in Yonkers, NY. She was 66.

via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/michele-mcnally-first-new-york-times-photography-director-dies-at-66/

Michele McNally, the first photography director of The New York Times who brought photojournalism to new heights, died on February 18 from complications of pneumonia in a hospital in Yonkers, NY. She was 66.

March 3, 2022
Michele McNally, Who Elevated Times Photography, Dies at 66 – The New York Times

Michele McNally, Who Elevated Times Photography, Dies at 66

The paper won six Pulitzer Prizes for photography during her tenure as its director of photography and a trailblazing member of the newsroom’s top management.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/business/media/michele-mcnally-dead.html

The paper won six Pulitzer Prizes for photography during her tenure as its director of photography and a trailblazing member of the newsroom’s top management.

March 2, 2022
A very politically correct winner – Thoughts of a Bohemian

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Boring. Blaaaaah. That is the first word that comes to mind when looking at the winner of the World Press Award, circa 2015. Don’t get me wrong, this year’s committee, led by Michele McNally, probably the best photo editor of our generation, was full of talent. But it was just that, a committee. And time and time again, we have learned that nothing of quality comes out of a committee’s decision.

January 10, 2020
Photojournalism ethics needs a reexamination | Poynter.

Photojournalism ethics needs a reexamination

Michele McNally, director of photography and assistant managing editor of The New York Times, offers this perspective: “The vast majority of the 20 percent were obvious deceptions – there were addition or subtraction of material, that was really evident.”

“Digital darkroom processing…is not the same as the old wet, analog darkroom,” said McNally. That is why the rules are outdated: “So much does not apply and we need clearer standards.”

March 6, 2015
MICHELE MCNALLY IS 2015 WORLD PRESS PHOTO CONTEST JURY CHAIR

MICHELE MCNALLY IS 2015 WORLD PRESS PHOTO CONTEST JURY CHAIR

I feel I will see extraordinary pictures from the events of last year. I expect it will be a tough year to be a judge and make selections from the very worthy images that have been produced

October 22, 2014
New York Times Wins Two Photography Pulitzers

New York Times Wins Two Photography Pulitzers

The Times swept the 2014 prizes for photography. Tyler Hicks won for his coverage of a terrorist attack at a Nairobi mall. Josh Haner was honored for his images of the slow and painful recovery process of a Boston Marathon bombing survivor.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/14/the-new-york-times-wins-two-photography-pulitzers/

“For me it’s a symbol of what we do at the newspaper as a whole — the best of foreign reporting and the best of our enterprise,” said Michele McNally, the paper’s assistant managing editor for photography. “It is recognition that our photojournalism is on par with the quality of The New York Times’s reporting, which is the best in the world.”

April 15, 2014
Michele McNally — Talk to the Newsroom

Michele McNally – NYTimes.com:

Assistant Managing Editor Michele McNally, who oversees photography for The New York Times, is answering questions from readers June 22-26.

June 23, 2009
On Assignment: Taking Time Out to Heal

Lens Blog – NYTimes.com says:

On Friday, from the American Hospital in Istanbul, Lynsey Addario sent the following message to Michele McNally, an assistant managing editor.

Hi just got to turkey and am in american hosp here. What a gigantic difference from pakistan! Its like I’ve spent the last five days in a cave! They have me strapped up in this figure 8 sling, trying to pull my bones apart. Doctors now are discussing surgery. Collar bones banging into each other and it is sooooooooo painful.

The Times is gathering a fund to give to the six children of the driver, Raza Khan, for whom he was the sole provider.

May 18, 2009