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News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch appeared in front of a congressional sub-committee today to support the ease of allowing skilled immigrant laborers to work in the U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) was particularly brusque in confronting Murdoch what she deemd as a “contradiction” between the News Corp. chief and Fox News programming. But it wasn’t all tough for Rupert; take for example Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) who went well out of his way to praise the work of Fox News.

This week Politico filed two stories about photojournalists in the nation’s capital that provided (yet another) moment to see how photojournalism has evolved over the last two decades: the retirement of Pulitzer-winning AP veteran Ron Edmonds; and the rising stock of a Hill press assistant-turned-photojournalista Charlotte Sellmyer.