Kickstarter Helps Fund Non-Profit Projects

By Jim Pickerell | 433 Words | Posted 11/30/2010 | Comments (1)
Have an idea for a photo project but short of money to get if off the ground? Try Kickstarter.

Getty Images Launches Contour Style

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 144 Words | Posted 11/30/2010 | Comments
Contour by Getty Images, the celebrity portraiture syndication division of Getty Images, has launched an editorial stock offering under the brand of Contour Style.

Schools Phase Out Textbooks

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 55 Words | Posted 11/29/2010 | Comments

Tablets: Will They Hurt the Newspaper Business?

By Jim Pickerell | 154 Words | Posted 11/29/2010 | Comments
James Murdoch, CEO of News Corp., recently told a media conference in Monaco that tablets will hurt the newspaper business.

Torrens Releases Microstock Agency Report

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 125 Words | Posted 11/29/2010 | Comments
Lee Torrens, the man behind popular blog Microstock Diaries, has put together a research report on microstock agencies.

Corbis, WHO Report on Urbanization

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 332 Words | Posted 11/24/2010 | Comments

Since 2007, more than half of the world’s population has lived in cities. By 2050, that number will reach 70%, say United Nations statisticians. Corbis’s latest trends report offers a stock-industry perspective on how this rapid, unplanned upsurge in the numbers of city dwellers has influenced today’s visual culture.

Are All Web Uses Equal?

By Jim Pickerell | 141 Words | Posted 11/24/2010 | Comments (1)

Should all Web usages be of equal value just because all the customer needs is approximately a 600 x 800 pixel file?

iStock Gets Stocky

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 75 Words | Posted 11/22/2010 | Comments

Skyworks Joins Footage.net

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 82 Words | Posted 11/22/2010 | Comments

Argentina’s Images Lover Joins THP

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 66 Words | Posted 11/22/2010 | Comments

About Michael Masterson

Michael Masterson has a broad range of experience in marketing, business development, strategic planning, contact negotiations and recruiting in the photography, graphic design and publishing industries. In addition to his long experience at the Workbook and Workbookstock, Masterson owned and was creative director of his own graphic design firm for several years.

Masterson has been a speaker or panelist at industry events such as Seybold, PhotoPlus Expo, Visual Connections and the Picture Archive Council of America (PACA) national conference. He is currently the national president of the American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP). He also serves on the board of the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council in his Los Angeles community. He chaired the marketing committee for the Los Angeles Conservancy, a historic preservation advocacy group, for many years.

He currently heads Masterson Consulting, working on projects ranging from business development for creative companies and sourcing talent for them to promoting and marketing industry events as well as providing resume and professional profile services for job-seekers. He can be reached at zvpunryqznfgrefba@tznvy.pbz.