Category: Ethics & Legal

The National Press Photographers Association’s Advocacy Committee has posted about their involvement with the Miami Beach Police Department’s decision to set new guidelines and procedures for the, “investigation, seizure and searching of portable video and photo recording devices.” So, to anyone who asks why the NPPA matters … who else stepped in? And a nod to Police Chief Carlos Noriega...

The Associated Press has issued a kill order for a photo it transmitted showing men walking through a flooded North Korean street. The photo, sourced from the Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service shows three people standing in water … who are not wet. The Korean Central News Agency is the “news agency” of the North Korean government.

There has been a quiet battle going on in Washington, one that has been playing out in newspapers, magazines and television. One that no one in the general public is even aware of. It is the clamping down of visual access to the president. President Obama has an excellent photographer in Pete Souza, a man with a long journalism history....