What’s the role of photo journalism?
The role of photo journalism is to record the truth of an event by taking a picture and broadcasting it to the audiences. Photo journalism is generally used in reporting news because it can help the journalist to deliver clear messages to the audiences. Adding photographs in the article when reporting news can attract audiences to read and it can help them to understand the news better. Also, photos can be a very good tool to deliver messages that cannot be portrayed by texts.
Are there rules that photojournalists should follow? Why? Why not?
According to the course notes, there are certain rules that photojournalists should follow:
1. -Journalists must not alter their images because they should inform the audience about facts.
2. -Photos should be changed only if the journalist wants to improve the quality. Context and facts on the photograph shouldn’t be changed in any sense.
3. -Telling the story without changing the reality is the main purpose of the photographs, that is why objects and people shouldn’t be deleting in the photographs.
4. -Photojournalists should have accountability to the public by ensuring the accuracy of the context and facts reported.
Is the ethics of taking journalistic photos different than the ethics of writing a news story?
They should both follow the same ethics because bring out the truth accurately to audiences is their objective. Simply changing a word or two in a paragraph can alter the whole meaning of that news story article. Words and photographs are important tools in media that is why they must deliver accurate information and facts. Therefore, when a person writes a news story should follow the ethics of taking journalistic photos.
What’s the impact of altering press photographs? Should they be edited (at all) in post production?
Altering press photographs can result in both positive and negative effects in terms of ethics of photo journalistic. It is no harm to alter the photograph to improve the quality as long as it can still inform the audiences with the right and accurate information. However, altering the photograph without keeping the original facts or information should not be accepted as the truth of the events is hidden or changed.
Word cited:
Photojournalism: shooting the truth
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