The role of photojournalism is a branch of journalism to record down events that occur in our world. Journalist generally take some truth photos that occur in the events, and they would write a specific story base on the photos. Through the photos, the readers could totally understand the background of events. Again, the photos could gain the authenticity of the story. In my opinion, the story from the photos Journalist offer are news related, and the context of photos are directly connected to the story.
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Are there rules that photojournalists should follow? Why? Why not?
"NPPA Code of ethics" states that visual journalists and those who manage visual news productions are accountable for upholding the following standards in their daily work:
- Be accurate and comprehensive in the representation of subjects.
- Resist being manipulated by staged photo opportunities.
- Be complete and provide context when photographing or recording subjects. Avoid stereotyping individuals and groups. Recognize and work to avoid presenting one's own biases in the work.
- Treat all subjects with respect and dignity. Give special consideration to vulnerable subjects and compassion to victims of crime or tragedy. Intrude on private moments of grief only when the public has an overriding and justifiable need to see.
- While photographing subjects do not intentionally contribute to, alter, or seek to alter or influence events.
- Editing should maintain the integrity of the photographic images' content and context. Do not manipulate images or add or alter sound in any way that can mislead viewers or misrepresent subjects.
- Do not pay sources or subjects or reward them materially for information or participation.
- Do not accept gifts, favors, or compensation from those who might seek to influence coverage.
- Do not intentionally sabotage the efforts of other journalists.
Is the ethics of taking journalistic photos different than the ethics of writing a news story?
Journalistic photos and news story writing should have the same ethics rule. Although both jobs are performancing the different works(one is recording the events of the world, and the other one is presenting to the public), both jobs should follow a common rule is bringing out the truth. In general, Journalistic photos is give readers the truth photos from the event; on the other hand, news written is base on the photos to write specific story from the event, so they should have the same ethics rule.
What's the impact of altering press photographs? Should they be edited (at all) in postproduction?
The impact of altering press photographs could be positive or negative depending what intention of the alter. If people altering press photographs only for enhancing the photos, this would not give too much impact for the photo, but a lilttle positive impact too, because it makes the photo look better. However, if people altering the photographys for changing the truth, then the impact of that could be very large. Since Photographs were the evidence of truth, it were used to record the important events in the old days, so if people altering press photographys in the wrong way so that would distort the truth
Work Cited:
https://gbc.blackboard.com/webct/urw/lc5122011.tp0/cobaltMainFrame.dowebct
Image sources:
http://www.canberra.edu.au/communication/assets/journalism.jpg
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