April 19, 2013 Verifying Images Good ideas from Jennifer Dorroh at the International Journalists’ Network on how to verify images from unknown sources. (Thanks to Josh Stearns for the link.) Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
April 18, 2013 The Dangers of Online Publishing One of the biggest fears of photographers at the advent of the web was the ease with which you could “steal” an image. A simple click and it was on someone else’s hard drive. It’s still an issue – on Tuesday, one Steve Goldstein published an ebook on Amazon titled Boston Bombing – First Photos. And, you guessed it, it... Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
April 18, 2013 When to Run Graphic Images While this New York Times piece by Christine Haughney doesn’t answer the question, it gives you some ideas to talk about. It’s one of the most difficult debates in newsrooms – where is the line between a subject’s privacy and your readers’ need to see something? No one has an absolute answer for this, so you know. Every situation must... Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
April 17, 2013 When a Tabloid Goes Conservative “And still gets it wrong” would be the subhead on this if I wrote subheads. Charles Apple has noted that the New York Daily News has altered one of the images from Monday’s horrific bombing. Unfortunately, his server seems to be suffering under the load, but you can see another report by Capital New York that references his work and... Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
April 16, 2013 Catching Cover Letters Andrew Lamberson walks through his process of writing a cover letter for a job at The New York Times Magazine – and it’s a very different approach. Read the piece to see what happened. (Thanks to Sean Elliot for the link.) Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism
April 15, 2013 A Dark Day in Boston I covered eight or nine Boston Marathons, I know a lot of the photographers who were at the finish line when the bombs went off today. My thoughts are with them as well as all of the victims – the scars of what they felt and saw will take a long time to fade. I pray that every single friend... Categories At Work/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
April 15, 2013 Pulitzer Prizes Announced Congrats to the Associated Press’ Rodrigo Abd, Manu Brabo, Narciso Contreras, Khalil Hamra and Muhammed Muheisen for winning the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography and to freelancer Javier Manzano whose image, transmitted by Agence France-Presse, won for Feature Photography. Categories Competitions/Photojournalism
April 15, 2013 Searching for the Seventies The Denver Post’s Captured blog has a great collection of images from the Documerica project of the 1970s. Prepare for a flashback to my youth … only my early images were nowhere near as nice as these. Pay attention to both the subject matter and the way the images are composed – there’s more here than a primary subject, this... Categories Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
April 15, 2013 As I Am UGA alumni Alan Spearman and Mark Adams have been honored with a first place in the National Press Photographers Association’s Best Use of Multimedia for their work on Memphis Poverty: What Obama Didn’t See. Pull up a chair and dig in – the video is narrated by Chris Dean, who grew up in Memphis in some pretty difficult situations, but... Categories Business & Industry/Competitions/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Video
April 14, 2013 What Can a Cop Tell You? A little behind on this, but NPPA’s lawyer, Mickey Osterreicher, was interviewed last month by Carrie Peyton Dahlberg of the North Coast Journal about taking pictures in public. A simple reminder of what we are allowed to do. NCJ: What should police never tell a photographer? Osterreicher: “Because I said so.” It works for your mother. But for a police... Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism