Category: Ethics & Legal

Good ideas from Jennifer Dorroh at the International Journalists’ Network on how to verify images from unknown sources. (Thanks to Josh Stearns for the link.)

While this New York Times piece by Christine Haughney doesn’t answer the question, it gives you some ideas to talk about. It’s one of the most difficult debates in newsrooms – where is the line between a subject’s privacy and your readers’ need to see something? No one has an absolute answer for this, so you know. Every situation must...

“And still gets it wrong” would be the subhead on this if I wrote subheads. Charles Apple has noted that the New York Daily News has altered one of the images from Monday’s horrific bombing. Unfortunately, his server seems to be suffering under the load, but you can see another report by Capital New York that references his work and...

A little behind on this, but NPPA’s lawyer, Mickey Osterreicher, was interviewed last month by Carrie Peyton Dahlberg of the North Coast Journal about taking pictures in public. A simple reminder of what we are allowed to do. NCJ: What should police never tell a photographer? Osterreicher: “Because I said so.” It works for your mother. But for a police...