Category: Photojournalism

With the news last week that Osama bin Laden had been killed in Pakistan, history was made. President Obama’s photographer, Pete Souza, was in the White House situation room as the president and numerous other high level officials watched the attack on bin Laden’s compound. Souza’s photo was made available the following day and has been heralded as an historic...

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...