We wrote about free photo sites. Many journalists were outraged. Now what? | Poynter

We heard loud reminders that stock images can be ethically questionable, especially if you can’t verify the original source. So it was insufficient to talk about those issues only from the standpoint of copyright. Given the proliferation of these sites (and likelihood they are not going away), it’s time for a more robust conversation about how relying on generic photo archives for presentation (as so many organizations do) could degrade the “journalistic validity” of a news site.