Tag Archives: photojournalism

Picture This

March 6, 2020Accountability, Accuracy, Media, PhotosAccuracy, altering images, photojournalismcbukro

Picture this: Today, accuracy in photography is seen as important as accuracy in reporting. Altering is forbidden. From the Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists archives.

Ethics of Stock Imagery

April 11, 2019Accountability, Accuracy, Media, Online News, Photos, TransparencyCenter for Journalism Ethics, photojournalism, stock imagery, University of Wisconsinethicsadviceline

Ethics of stock imagery: Using old images with new stories is not ethical journalism, Mark E. Johnson tells Jack Kelly. It’s like using generic quotes in a story.

Visuals attached to stories increase engagement, writes Kelly. But “photojournalists and visual journalists are often the first members of a newsroom to be the victims of budget cuts,” resulting in the use of stock images.

Kavanaugh Story Told In Photos

October 5, 2018Accuracy, Media, PhotosColoumbia Journalism Review, New York Times, photojournalism, storytellingethicsadviceline

Kavanaugh story told in photos: Darrel Frost tells how the New York Times used two images to show contrasting views in the Kavanaugh hearing.

“This is masterful storytelling on the part of the Times’s photo editors,” writes Frost. “It’s rare we see a national political figure in such aggressive visage — not to mention a possible justice of the Supreme Court — and the photo, in this case, could portray the contrasts in the testimony in a way that text couldn’t.”

Photojournalism’s Sexual Harassment Problem

July 18, 2018Accountability, Boss Encourages Unethical Conduct, Media, Minimizing HarmColumbia Journalism Review, female photographers, photojournalism, Sexual harassmentethicsadviceline

Photojournalism’s sexual harassment problem: Kristen Chick writes that female photographers are calling for their own moment of reckoning.

“Many women in the industry say the behavior is so common that they have long considered it simply one of the realities of working as a woman in the profession,” she writes.

The problem is rooted, she says, in these factors: The field has historically been male-dominated with a culture that glorifies macho, hyper-masculine behavior; increasing reliance on freelancers; workshops and other events for young photographers are often exploited by older, established photojournalists.