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#Reporter, #publisher, #photographer, #entrepreneur. CEO of digital publishing company Technology News and Literature. Photography chair, National Press Club in DC […]

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Probably my most-viewed photo ever is of Highmark Stadium, then Ralph Wilson Stadium, shot in Sept. 2014. As the Buffalo Bills get ready to play maybe their last game ever in that stadium, I tell how that photo came about in today's TechNewsLit Explores […]

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January 1, 2026 at 4:09 PM
I somehow missed the #alexandria, #virginia waterfront holiday show with Santa Claus on waterskis for the past 39 years. Not ths year. Plus the fireboat hose demonstrations were pretty cool.

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December 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Photo-shoot yesterday: #axios event on permitting legislation. Interviews with Rep. Rep. Julie Fedorchak (R-ND), Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI), Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO), and Bechtel chairman Brendan Bechtel, shown here

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December 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
New photos available exclusively from the D.C. Notables gallery on the TechNewsLit collection at the Alamy photo agency: Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME).

https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/1317563/dcnotables.html

#photography #newsphotography […]

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December 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
New on TechNewsLit Explores.
Here's a piece I've wanted to write for a while ... advice for my media colleagues: Stop writing headlines in the form of a question.

https://write.as/technewslit/no-more-question-marks-in-headlines
No more question marks in headlines.
> Neera Tanden, president of Center for American Progress, asks a question of Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), 13 June 2025. Questions are fine, just not in headlines. (Photo: A. Kotok) **Here's an easy way to get through your daily media reading.** Ignore stories, analyses, or opinion pieces with a headline as a question. Really. This advice is based on my definiton of news: developments that tangibly affect the human condition. If the story reports on something important, the headline will say so. I used this definition of news to produce Science & Enterprise for 13 years. _Something real had to happen:_ e.g., research published, clinical trial begun, grant awarded, investment secured. As a result, S&E story headlines were in the form of declarative statements, not questions. If a piece has a headline as a question, it's a good bet that writing is either click-bait or has little that's new. And if there's nothing really new, just more questions, you're probably wasting your time. Now please understand: There's nothing wrong with raising questions. But if you're raising questions, at least try to provide some answers. Give this advice a try for one or two days. You will be amazed just how much of your daily reading you can cut out. And you won't miss any real news: developments that tangibly affect the human condition. The only question will be: What will you do with that spare time? Copyright © Technology News and Literature. All rights reserved.
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December 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The DoD investigation of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) is making #News today. See our report: https://write.as/technewslit/report-sen-mark-kelly-under-dod-investigation

Also in recent news: Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD), Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), and Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) […]

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November 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Photo-shoot today: #politico policy outlook for #financial #cybercrimes, with interviews of Reps Jim Himes (D-CT) and David Schweikert (R-AZ), plus industry experts.

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November 19, 2025 at 1:42 AM
As the six-part series "American Revolution" begins on PBS, photos of filmmaker and major funder David Rubenstein are available exclusively from the TechNewsLit portfolio at the Alamy photo agency.

https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/1317563.html

#kenburns #pbs #americanrevolution
November 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Only the #buffalobills could win a game making 3 turnovers, 7 penalties, and giving up 200 rushing yards. Josh Allen makes the difference: 3 rushing, 3 passing touchdowns.

#GoBills #BillsMafia
November 16, 2025 at 9:32 PM
New post on TechNewsLit Explores: Big time sports now has big-time betting problems, with alleged mob ties to college athletes. Who would have seen that coming, right?

https://write.as/technewslit/college-sports-now-has-big-time-betting-problems

I photo'd an interview with NCAA president […]
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November 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Latest photo-shoot: Voice of America staff in lawsuit against Agency for Global Media at National Press Club, 12 Nov. 2025. Shown here: Plaintiffs (R-L) Patsy Widakuswara, Jessica Jerreat, and Kate Neeper.

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November 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Photo-shoot yesterday: #federalreserve governor Lisa Cook, at the #Brookings Institution. Almost the entire discussion dealt with #economics, and not Trump's attempt to fire her from the Fed Board of Governors.

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November 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Photo-shoot last night ... Law professor, former U.S. attorney, and MSNBC commentator Joyce Vance at the National Press Club. Vance was interviewed by AP law enforcement editor and NPC president Mike Balsamo

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October 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Joined the #nokings rally today in D.C. Very much of a street party vibe. Impromptu DJ in a chicken suit provided the music.

Photos show signs, banners, and costumes. Signs ranged from clever to angry to intellectual to raunchy […]

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October 19, 2025 at 1:23 AM
A new collection of stock photos from the Alamy agency is available for news stories and features about electric power. Photos show wind turbines, an old coal-fired power plant, utility sub-station, and power lines […]

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October 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Reposted by Alan Kotok
3 share Nobel Prize in Economics for work on technology, growth and creative destruction https://www.npr.org/2025/10/10/nx-s1-5570762/xxx-wins-nobel-prize-in-economics-for-xxx?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
October 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Photo-shoot last night: Reception and conversation with Radio Free Europe reporter and former Russian prisoner Alsu Kurmasheva at the National Press Club.

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October 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We went to the Washington Nationals - Chicago White Sox game yesterday. Plenty of action and rain. Nats won 6-5.

Shown here: Nats' position players during National Anthem.

Big heroes: The ground crew for keeping the field playable.

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September 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
New on TechNewsLit Explores ... A July 2025 news conference with an industry group and GOP lawmakers forecast Trump's new 50% #tariffs on kitchen cabinets, and captured at the time by a TechNewsLit photo-shoot.

Exclusive photos available from the Alamy agency […]

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September 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Photo-shoot yesterday: Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), speaking at Center for American Progress, where he warned about the eroding democracy in the U.S. brought on by the Trump administration.

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September 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
New post on my blog TechNewslit Explores ...

Sports gambling is a bad bet, especially for sports ... https://write.as/technewslit/sports-gambling-is-a-bad-bet-especially-for-sports

If there are winners in sports betting other than the gambling operators, they're hard to find.

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September 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Lanternflies, considered invasive and destructive of crops, are swarming along the U.S. East Coast. At Cape May, NJ this week, we discovered that Atlantic ghost crabs feast on #lanternflies, and we have the pictures to prove it.

#photography #naturephotography #jerseyshore #capemay
September 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
National Press Club's annual members photo exhibit that I've organized since 2016 is live, continuing to September 30 in the Club's main lobby. Some 52 participants contributed 185 print photos and digital images displayed in continuous slideshows, with 106 of […]

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September 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Photo-shoot this week for the Wire, the daily newsletter at National Press Club ... the annual journalism awards dinner. Here's Club president Mike Balsamo, right, presenting the President's Award to Dong Yifu, accepting for his father, imprisoned Chinese […]

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August 31, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Had a chance today to see National Guard troops in D.C., around Union Station on Capitol Hill. A few residents and visitors chatted with the soldiers, who otherwise looked bored with nothing to do.

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August 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM