Category: Ethics

  • BP photoshops fake photo of crisis command center, posts on main BP site

    BP photoshops fake photo of crisis command center, posts on main BP site

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    BP photoshops fake photo of oil spill crisis command center to make it look busy – AMERICAblog News (H/t to AK for spotting this.) UPDATE 12:08PM Eastern 7/20/10: BP has faked yet another oil crisis response photo on its Web site. UPDATE: 11:14PM Eastern: BP has now posted the “original” photo, they claim. Except –…

  • Marc Feldman checks in about altered Getty golf photo

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    “So I showed them how easy I could do that. I thought I just saved it to the desktop, not to the send folder,” he said. “I certainly did not mean to send both of them to Getty.” Link: Marc Feldman checks in about altered Getty golf photo | PHOTOGRAPHY Blog | dallasnews.com

  • Getty Photographer Dropped Over Altered Golf Photo – PDN Pulse

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    The photographer, Marc Feldman, was cut by Getty after the manipulated image was discovered by a photo editor at the Dallas Morning News. Link: Getty Photographer Dropped Over Altered Golf Photo – PDN Pulse

  • CNN Fires Editor After Hezbollah Twitter Message – NYTimes.com

    CNN Fires Editor After Hezbollah Twitter Message – NYTimes.com

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    CNN Fires Middle East Affairs Editor Octavia Nasr, senior editor of Middle East affairs, was fired after publishing a Twitter message saying she respected a Hezbollah leader. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/08/business/media/08cnn.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss Ms. Nasr, a 20-year veteran of the network, wrote on Twitter after the cleric died on Sunday, “Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed…

  • The Economist Alters News Photo for Cover Layout – PDN Pulse

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    An editor at The Economist  insists the decision to Photoshop a news photo for its June 19 cover was made for the sake of design, not politics. Link: The Economist Alters News Photo for Cover Layout – PDN Pulse

  • The Online Photographer: KGB'd!

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    KGB’d! So news photographers can’t alter images in any way, but new publications can? Shame on Emma Duncan, The Economist, and Reuters. The original picture was taken by Larry Downing of Reuters. The cover crop and alteration was the responsibility of… via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/07/kgbd.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29 LUCEO will be documenting the decline of small town…

  • When transparency and humanitarian aid clash – PhotoPhilanthropy

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    The NGO’s decided not to release any information about the torture. I deleted my article. I was aghast. But I could also see the reasons for their decisions. The long-term benefits to transparency seemed to outweigh the short-term benefits in theory, but in real life, it was impossible to choose to jeopardize so many lives.…

  • On The Economist’s Cover, Only a Part of the Picture – Media Decoder

    On The Economist’s Cover, Only a Part of the Picture – Media Decoder

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    On The Economist’s Cover, Only a Part of the Picture The June 19 issue of The Economist showed President Obama alone on a Louisiana beach. But he was not alone. via Media Decoder Blog: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/05/on-the-economists-cover-only-a-part-of-the-picture/?partner=rss&emc=rss Editors from The Economist had no comment when asked on Friday about the cover image.

  • The Media Equation – For Blogger, ‘Outspoken’ Was a Selling Point, Till It Wasn’t

    The Media Equation – For Blogger, ‘Outspoken’ Was a Selling Point, Till It Wasn’t

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    Outspoken Is Great, Till It’s Not Dave Weigel, the Washington Post political blogger who resigned over comments about conservatives, was just what the paper wanted. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/05/business/media/05carr.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss if you dumped every reporter who ever sent a snide message or talked smack in private, there would be nothing but crickets chirping in newsrooms all over America.

  • Is calling torture 'torture' political correctness? – Boing Boing

    Is calling torture 'torture' political correctness? – Boing Boing

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    Is calling torture ‘torture’ political correctness? The New York Times is one of the many newspapers which, after calling torture “torture” for generations, switched to euphemisms (“enhanced interrogation techniques”) during … via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/03/new-york-times-edito.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 The New York Times is one of the many newspapers which, after calling torture “torture” for generations, switched to euphemisms…

  • Your Shot – Digital Manipulation – National Geographic

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    National Geographic Magazine National Geographic stories take you on a journey that’s always enlightening, often surprising, and unfailingly fascinating. via Magazine: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/your-shot/manipulation We get a lot of letters at National Geographic. Recently we received several from readers insisting that William Lascelles’s photograph on the February 2010 Your Shot page was a fake. Our readers were…

  • Reuters Accused of Anti-Israel Propaganda

    Reuters Accused of Anti-Israel Propaganda

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    Reuters Accused of Anti-Israel Propaganda Photos by Reuters Is Reuters showing its anti-Israel bias? Or is the mini furor over some cropped photos the result of over-reaction and paranoia? As you can see above, the photo on the left shows … Link: http://discarted.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/reuters-accused-of-anti-israel-propaganda/ The blog Little Green Footballs exposed the omitted knife, and Reuters quickly…

  • U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe | Threat Level

    U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe | Threat Level

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    U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe Federal officials have arrested an Army intelligence analyst who boasted of giving classified U.S. combat video and hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records to whistleblower site Wikileaks, Wired.com has learned. PFC Bradley Manning, 2 via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/leak/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired27b+%28Blog+-+27B+Stroke+6+%28Threat+Level%29%29 “Everywhere there’s a U.S. post, there’s a diplomatic…

  • Visa plans crackdown on photoshop – British Journal of Photography

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    As photojournalists prepare return to Perpignan in early September for the 22nd International photojournalism festival, Jean-François Leroy, Visa Pour l’Image’s co-founder, has hit out at Photoshop abuses in the field, vowing to ask for raw files for the festival 2011 edition. Link: Visa plans crackdown on photoshop – British Journal of Photography

  • A Photo Editor – Aurora Photos Now Has A Journalistic Search Filter

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    Aurora Photos Now Has A Journalistic Search Filter – A Photo Editor I received a press release yesterday from Aurora Photos announcing a new search feature that allows picture buyers to license images that have not been altered or manipulated in any way. Certainly there are many organizations that need this type of imager via…

  • Editorial Photographers UK | Ethics and photojournalism

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    Award-winning photographer Stuart Freedman argues that the crisis of identity in photojournalism today can only be answered with a greater understanding of subject matter and context. Link: Editorial Photographers UK | Ethics and photojournalism

  • Open Letter to The Pulitzer Center and Mr. Vernaschi – The Vigilante Journalist

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    Mr. Vernaschi has now admitted to exhuming three more bodies, which I suspected for some time was the case. It is good that he has gone public with this, but I feel there remain a number of burning questions that have largely been skirted. Link: Open Letter to The Pulitzer Center and Mr. Vernaschi –…

  • Uganda: Response to Critics – Pulitzer Center Untold Stories

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    Uganda: Response to Critics Merco Vernaschi, for the Pulitzer Center (Editor’s note at end of post) During the past week a few blogs have unleashed a wave of criticism on my work about child sacrifice in Uganda, questioning my ethics and values and the Pulitzer Center’s guidelines. via Pulitzer Center: http://untoldstories.pulitzercenter.org/2010/04/uganda-response-to-critics.html During the past week…

  • ::: The Travel Photographer :::: POV: Marco Vernaschi & Child Sacrifice

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    POV: Marco Vernaschi & Child Sacrifice travel photographer Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2010/04/pov-marco-vernaschi-child-sacrifice.html Here’s another story that is guaranteed to make your stomachs churn. It involves Marco Vernaschi an Italian photographer/photojournalist who worked on a project documenting the phenomenon of child witches, human sacrifice and organ trafficking in Africa, and the Pultizer Center For Crisis Reporting.

  • A Developing Story | Pulitzer Center Crisis in Ethics

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    I can hardly argue whether this picture would have been done/published if the boy would have been American, or European. I can only say that to me this makes no difference, and that when I was taking this pictures I was there with Mukisa’s father and aunt, who were desperate and worried about the future…