Link: Reuters, a big-leagues news service owned by a $13 billion multinational corporation, is ducking critical questions about the death of a teenage war photographer who’d been selling pictures to the agency.
Trial by Slide Show? On Lens, Molhem Barakat and the Reuters Scandal – Reading The Pictures It’s troubling to think that the last word on Molhem’s reputation might hinge on the slideshow, the visual association to a thickening scandal and a more nominal connection to suspect deeds. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2014/03/trial-by-slide-show-on-lens-molhem-barakat-and-the-reuters-scandal/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29 It’s in the…
Link: Blood Photography Anyone? | Greg Marinovich The late Molhem Barakat is someone whom one might find quite difficult to pigeonhole between these two documenters of conflict, falling somewhere between activist/propagandist and photojournalist.
Link: Questions remain after death of 17-year-old Reuters stringer | dvafoto So the questions remain: Was Molhem Barakat 17 when working for Reuters? If so, why is a child working for one of the largest media organizations in the world? Why would a media organization hire someone who had previously tried to join Al Qaeda?…
Teen turned down by Al-Qaeda linked group dies shooting for Reuters in Syria — duckrabbit (please note when this post was first published it was widely reported that Barakat was seventeen. Reuters did nothing to… via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2013/12/child-turned-down-by-al-queda-dies-shooting-for-reuters-in-syria/ Reuters did report that not only was Molhem Barakat a photographer on their books but also an…
