Category: Ethics & Legal

According to an article on the Student Press Law Center web site, Collegiate Times photojournalist Shaozhuo Cui was detained by police on Monday because he matched a description of the possible shooter on the Virginia Tech campus. While the student newspaper isn’t objecting to his being detained given the circumstances, the authorities have not returned his cameras or identification cards...

Allan Detrich, who removed the legs from behind a sign two weeks ago, has resigned from the Toledo Blade, according to an article on Photo District News. He has posted a few comments about his plans on his personal blog, as well.

Ted Diadiun at the Cleveland Plain Dealer takes on the question of biased political photos in a recent column. Readers had been complaining that images of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice always seemed to make her look bad, so he asked the photo editor to take a look at the last year’s worth of published images. The results will …...

So, Time magazine decided to illustrate their most recent story about “How the Right Went Wrong” with a cover photo of Ronald Reagan – with an oversized tear running down his cheek. There’s been a bit of buzz on the `net about whether this is ethical or not and the illustrator who did the work was interviewed about it at...