Ethics & Legal – Page 18 – Visual Journalism

August 18, 2013

Protecting Journalism, not Journalists

Over at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Morgan Weiland looks at the latest version of the Senate’s federal shield law and points out some of the problems with it. The big one is simple – journalism is what needs to be protected, not the journalists who commit the acts. All of the proposed legislation right now seems to be aimed at...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism

August 12, 2013

The Fragility of Memory

Nice piece by Joshua Sarinana, a neuroscientist at MIT, over at PetaPixel on the fragility of memory and why manipulated images can have a pervasive effect on society. He ends with some great questions which, if I were a true academic, I’d be all over: Given the exponential growth of photographs taken and uploaded to social media sites each day,...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 29, 2013

Tumblr Shuts Down a Blog – for Copyright Violations

It warms my heart that Tumblr is taking copyright violations seriously and shutting down blogs with multiple violations. The tone of this Dan Lyons piece on HupSpot, though, has me concerned – it almost becomes a defense of the violator. Here’s the law: If I create something, I own it. You, no matter who you are, cannot use it unless...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

July 29, 2013

Bad, Bad “Journalism”

I posted this to Facebook already, but it deserves more airing. This is easily the worst interview I’ve ever seen conducted. Hands down – there’s no journalism being done here, this is an attack on author Professor Reza Aslan. If you want to question his credentials and whether he is qualified to write a book titled Zealot: The Life and...

Advice & Learning/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 24, 2013

Why Stocks Photos Are Bad, Jazz Edition

Why should you always contract for original photography? So you don’t use a 30 year old photo of a murdered child in your ad for babysitting services at your jazz festival. GAH.

Ethics & Legal/Graphic Design/Photojournalism

July 22, 2013

No Answers in Detroit Photojournalist Arrest

Paul Anger, the editor and publisher of the Detroit Free Press writers about the arrest of staff photojournalist Mandi Wright. From theca column: We’d like answers, too. We also know that Detroit police have difficult jobs — that’s understatement — fueled by tension and adrenalin. But they shouldn’t be worrying about rousting citizens who are within their rights to record...

At Work/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

July 18, 2013

So, Is This a Problem?

When Southern Community Newspapers, Inc., decided to let their photo staffs go, we all knew the photos would have to come from somewhere. Reporters may be able to cover some things, but if you’re the Gwinnett Daily Post and you routinely cover the Gwinnett Braves, the AAA farm team for the Atlanta Braves, I assumed you’d hire a stringer, right?...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 18, 2013

Football Hall of Fame Removes Award Winning Image

I’ve been stewing on this for a few days now … the Pro Football Hall of Fame has decided to remove a photo of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez from a display of winners in the 2010 annual Hall of Fame photo contest. (Hernandez, for those of you living a hermetic life this summer, has been charged with...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 15, 2013

Who Decides Who the Real Journalists Are?

The irony of linking to this is a little sickening … but Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin has penned a letter to the, ahem, Chicago Sun-Times (that bastion of journalistic excellence) about letting the government decide who is a journalist. Ack. Just … ack.

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July 13, 2013

More Visions Silenced

I’ve known about this one for a few weeks as one of my friends was involved – Southern Community Newspapers decided last month to let their photography staffs go at all of their papers. One was converted to a videographer, but that’s it. With a few poorly phrased keystrokes, the vision of several communities was wiped out. Blinded by a...

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Category: Ethics & Legal

Protecting Journalism, not Journalists

The Fragility of Memory

Tumblr Shuts Down a Blog – for Copyright Violations

Bad, Bad “Journalism”

Why Stocks Photos Are Bad, Jazz Edition

No Answers in Detroit Photojournalist Arrest

So, Is This a Problem?

Football Hall of Fame Removes Award Winning Image

Who Decides Who the Real Journalists Are?

More Visions Silenced