Category: Ethics
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What happens when you are employed by an NGO? | duckrabbit
Link: This shows the risks to objective storytelling if one is employed by an NGO. You are corporatised into showing the message of your employer – bottom line.
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Do Damon Winter’s iPhone pictures make a mockery of New York Times policy on digital manipulation? | duckrabbit
Link: Once again we are talking about how ‘beautiful’ the photos are, or what a great device the iPhone is, but not about the war in Afghanistan (although many people do comment that the photos bring them close to the lives of the soldiers). Would we really be talking about these pictures if they hadn’t…
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The Toppling: How the Media Inflated the Fall of Saddam’s Statue in Firdos Square – ProPublica
The Toppling: How the Media Inflated the Fall of Saddam’s Statue in Firdos Square How saturation media coverage of the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s statue in Firdos Square fueled the perception that the war had been won and diverted attention from what in reality was just the start of a long and costly conflict. via…
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Some thoughts on iPhone pictures and POYi | dvafoto
Link: Damon Winters’ iPhone-taken story, A Grunt’s Life, was awarded 3rd place Feature Story in the 2011 Pictures of the Year International. This has been met with controversy. Many, including most prominently Chip Litherland, say the pictures aren’t photojournalism and that they don’t represent what was in front of the camera, others, such as Logan…
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World Press Photo’s Afghan War » The Russian Photos Blog
Link: It used to be you won an award and people would say nice things, at least to your face; now it’s an excuse for a mob to take to the Internet and vilify you. In the week since Jodi Bieber’s portrait of Bibi Aisha, a young Afghan woman disfigured by her family – who…
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My Lai massacre photographer admits he destroyed pictures
Link: This story’s a bit old, but it’s the first I’ve encountered it. Ron Haeberle, US Army photographer during the Vietnam War, told the Cleveland Plain Dealer in 2009 that he took photos of soldiers in the act of killing during the My Lai massacre but destroyed the negatives.
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When does a photograph become dishonest?
Link: Several people have mentioned this lately so I thought I’d start down a path on the subject here. Honesty in photography is an issue that has been around for decades and will never go away but it’s only an issue in the purist of journalistic environments. Which makes sense, I guess.
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LAT decides against running photo of man accused of beating Giants fan
Los Angeles Times It’s against LAPD policy to release booking photos, so the Los Angeles Times didn’
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The Most Beautiful Girl They’ve Seen Or The Embedded Photojournalist Gets Picked Up!
I have argued this again and again, and have been reviled and criticized for it again and again. And
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Photojournalist Tony Overman Faces Discipline For "Misleading Readers"
Editors at The Olympian have said that photojournalist Tony Overman will face discipline for “m
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Underage Model’s $28 Million Suit Against Photog Likely to Hinge on Model Release
Link: Photographer Jason Lee Parry has earned international attention this week as a defendant in a high-profile, $28 million lawsuit. A 16-year old model Parry photographed in sexy poses when she was just 15 is suing him for licensing the images without a model release
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WikiLeaks Springs a Leak: Full Database of Diplomatic Cables Appears Online
Julian Assange (Photo: WikiMedia Commons) For the second time in a year, WikiLeaks has lost control
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Setting it straight: Photo manipulated
Link: The Sacramento Bee published a photograph taken during the Galt Winter Bird Festival of a snowy egret grabbing for a frog just caught by a great egret. This week we learned the photograph had been digitally altered by the photographer in violation of our standards
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To our readers – Bryan Patrick Fired
Link: The Sacramento Bee fired longtime photographer Bryan Patrick on Friday for violating the paper’s ethics policy forbidding manipulation of documentary photographs.
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Cincy Enquirer apologizes for photo with F-word
Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2012/04/17/cincy-enquirer-apologizes-for-photo-with-f-word/ Presses were stopped at Cincinnati Enquirer over the weekend after someone spotted “F*ck” in a photo. Thousands of Sunday papers were tossed out and the photo was changed for the new run.
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Photo of 2001 Alaska oil spill goes viral when magazine says it’s from recent Alberta spill
Link: Interestingly, a few commenters on the Common Ground Facebook post seem happy to ignore the fact that the image isn’t from the recent spill
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Newspaper Photoshops picture of candidate using opponent’s face for target practice
Link: “Black’s campaign went, er, ballistic, yelling at Post managing editor Michelle Willard for 20 minutes on Monday,” Steve Cavendish writes in Nashville Scene. Willard told Cavendish the paper wouldn’t do the cover again if it had the chance.
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Chicago Sun-Times ends Journatic relationship as dozens of fake bylines discovered at more papers
Link: Fake bylines now have been found on stories at four news organizations, according to the Chicago Tribune, an investor in Journatic and a client. Journatic used fake bylines in stories for the Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times, and at Hearst’s Houston Chronicle and San Francisco Chronicle
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Shooting victim’s brother criticizes media for ‘horrific journalism’
Link: The horrific journalism that’s going on surrounding my brother — and the scalding headlines and the pictures that were in the New York Post and The New York Times that my family had to see and endure, to see those pictures that were the most horrific pictures. They gave Osama bin Laden more respect…
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The Ethics of the dying/dead Ambassador Stevens photo
Link: Thursday September 13, many news organizations published a photo of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens either dead or dying after a terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi. The ethics Committee would like to add some thoughts to the discussion on the use of this image