That’s it, then. News photography is dead. So says a spokesman for the owners of the Gamma Agency of Paris, who have just filed for bankruptcy – and they didn’t come much better than Gamma. Maybe I’ll end up demonstrating the old skills to school parties at some provincial craft museum as they superglue me to my milking stool. More from Gamma’s eulogy here

Talking of death, the Italian journalist Roberto Saviano, has written of life in protective custody since threats from the Camorra in 2006 when his mafia exposé ‘Gomorrah’ was published. Moving writing in beautiful English from a man who, despite a team of armed guards and forever on the move, can die at any moment.

While soldiers face the same, they have occasional lulls in battle or R&R behind the lines; not for Saviano who, at twenty nine, faces an open-ended 24/7 threat of execution for writing the truth in a First World democracy. Read the full article here.