Ethics & Legal – Page 6 – Visual Journalism

November 19, 2015

Reuters Goes to All JPGs

Michael Zhang at PetaPixel is reporting that Reuters has issued a directive to all its photojournalists to only submit images that were shot as JPGs in the camera – no more raw files allowed. (Side note: Why do we always capitalize RAW? It’s not an acronym so far as I can tell.) Why would the wire service want to give...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

November 16, 2015

The Rest of the Missouri Video

Bob Sullivan, a University of Missouri alumnus, has his take on what happened last Monday when journalists were harassed on campus – and it’s worth looking at. Most of us have probably already seen the first seven minutes of Mark Schierbecker’s video, but watch what happens from seven minutes on – including the sarcastic (my interpretation that aligns with Mr....

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

November 11, 2015

Documenting the Fullness and Complexity of Life

Given the news out of the University of Missouri this week – which is overwhelming in its complexity and very difficult to thread an education lesson through in a short time – the timing of Maurice Berger’s story about a new Gordon Parks exhibit in New York on The New York Times’ Lens blog is stunningly relevant. The exhibit details...

Advice & Learning/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism

November 10, 2015

Missouri Update: Dean’s Statement

Dean David Kurpius from the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism has released a statement regarding Monday’s incident. Also, for clarification, Assistant Professor Melissa Click, featured in several videos confronting journalists, is not a faculty member in the Missouri School of Journalism. She is a member of the MU Department of Communication in the College of Arts and Science. In...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

November 10, 2015

Missouri Update, NPPA Statement

The National Press Photographers Association has issued a statement on the situation at the University of Missouri. At the end of the video linked to yesterday is a woman calling for some “muscle” to remove a reporter – she is Melissa Click, an assistant professor in the Department of Communications at the university. Click also holds a “courtesy” appointment with...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

November 9, 2015

Missouri Students and Faculty Block Journalists

Mark Schierbecker, a student at the University of Missouri, posted a disturbing video of another student photojournalist, Tim Tai, being blocked by students and faculty while trying to cover the events on campus earlier today. Mr. Tai deserves high praise for his composure during this event – his is the mark of professionalism. I would hope that the journalism program...

Ethics & Legal/Good Work/Photojournalism

November 7, 2015

Challenging California’s Anti-Paparazzi Law

The first case challenging the Constitutionality of California’s 2010 anti-paparazzi law is headed to court and the National Press Photographers Association is joining in. The law applies penalties to working photographers for driving infractions that differ from those applies to non-photographers. The appeal points out that the statute creates different punishments for individuals breaking the same driving laws. For example,...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

November 5, 2015

We Are Not the Enemy

Reading through Niko Koppel’s New York Times piece on the conviction of New York City police officer Michael Ackermann is both discouraging and encouraging. Discouraging in that photographer Robert Stolarik was arrested and charged in 2012 for doing a legally permitted thing, encouraging that Ackermann may now spend time in jail for his unlawful actions and lying in court. But...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

November 2, 2015

The Aesthetics of Death

Over at Salon.com, Scott Timberg talks with David Shields about his new book, War is Beautiful. Shields has gone through nearly 20 years of front pages from The New York Times and pulled images of conflict that he feels are, well, beautiful and raises the question of whether modern conflict photographers are still reporting on the horrors of war.

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism

October 30, 2015

Stop the Stock

Here we go again … this time, it’s the International Business Times using a stock photo of, ahem, three Russian bombers (referred to as “jets” in an earlier headline) on a story about TWO planes flying close to the USS Ronald Reagan in international waters. Yes, it’s the right type of plane. But we can count … worrisome that a...