Global Look Reps Alaska Stock in Canada, Russia

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 43 Words | Posted 10/27/2008 | Comments

Cardell Resigns as Jupitermedia President, COO

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 39 Words | Posted 10/27/2008 | Comments

Moodboard Launches FTP Uploader

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 170 Words | Posted 10/27/2008 | Comments
The U.K. agency has accepted images irrespective of a contributor’s professional status since its launch. It has now launched an online FTP uploader that makes contributing even easier.

Digimarc Updates Photoshop Plugin, Monitoring Service

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 205 Words | Posted 10/27/2008 | Comments
Digimarc for Images ships in-box with Adobe Photoshop and now includes improved resizing capabilities, foreign-language support and expanded Web monitoring services.

Plainpicture Releases Promotional Magazines

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 37 Words | Posted 10/24/2008 | Comments

PhotoShelter Offers Discount to Digital Railroad Customers

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 77 Words | Posted 10/24/2008 | Comments

Stirton Named International Photographer of the Year

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 139 Words | Posted 10/24/2008 | Comments
Getty Images photographer Brent Stirton took home several honors from this year's Lucie Awards, including International Photographer of the Year.

Getty Images to Acquire Jupiterimages for $96 Million

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 532 Words | Posted 10/24/2008 | Comments (2)
Getty Images and Jupitermedia announced a stock-purchase agreement that transfers ownership of Jupiter's wholly owned subsidiary, online image-licensing business Jupiterimages Corp., to Getty Images. The aggregate price of the deal is $96 million in cash--somewhere between a third and a quarter of the numbers discussed when last year's deal between the two companies fell apart for undisclosed reasons.

Kursiv Expands Budget Offering

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 89 Words | Posted 10/23/2008 | Comments
Swiss agency sees need for additional low-cost content.

Garden Photo World Launches Rights-Managed Library

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 62 Words | Posted 10/23/2008 | Comments
Seattle-based horticultural offering unites images and feature stories.

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.