Category: Ethics & Legal

Well, this is interesting … Politico is reporting the Associated Press and Reuters have decided to not cover a presidential candidate debate sponsored by the South Carolina Republican Party and Fox News Channel citing restrictions the organizers are imposing on still photography. “The debate sponsors, Fox News Channel and the South Carolina Republican Party, will only allow photos to be...

Al Tompkins at the Poynter Institute has picked up the story of the presidential reenactment. So has Charles Apple. Tompkins talked with John Harrington, president of the White House News Photographers Association, who … um … didn’t seem to mind? Harrington says, “I know we are splitting hairs here, but the White House photographers covering those re-enactments did not stage,...

As has everyone, I’ve been looking at images and reading stories in between classes (the last of the semester) all day. It’s fascinating – there’s almost as much coverage of the event as there has been of how the event was covered. (I freely admit that may just be the way I’m gravitating as a recovering journalist.) But this post...

Marrary Jean Tenore has a story up at the Poynter Institute that talks with Tuscaloosa News photojournalist Dusty Compton about the already-iconic image of the massive tornado that rolled over the city. Both before and after it hit, Compton was faced with choices – shoot or help? “There were so many things going through my head at the time,” Compton...