Joshua Gillin
May 14, 2013
4:24 pm
New York Times | Huffington Post
New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan has promised to examine Times photo policies after T Magazine editor Deborah Needleman made an offhand reference about wanting to Photoshop a model on the magazine's cover.
In her Monday column, Sullivan noted
some readers objected to the styling of model Julia Nobis, saying the photos make "suggestions of bondage." Readers also called the images "kiddy porn" because Nobis appeared younger than her 20 years and was "anorexic-looking."
Needleman told Sullivan that Nobis was chosen for her "strong looks" and "personality:"
She is rather thin for my taste, as most models are, and I considered adding some fat to her with Photoshop, but decided that as it is her body, I’d let it be. Fashion photography involves a bit of fantasy, and often some edge, and while the bathing suits are strappy and have buckles, that is a far cry from bondage — either showing it or advocating it. (more...)
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Andrew Beaujon
May 10, 2013
12:13 pm
BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed's Jessica Testa
reports on the life of Jodon Romero, whose suicide following a car chase
was broadcast nationally last year by Fox News. When Romero's sister Nature asked Testa whether she'd seen the chase, she recalls, "I stumble."
Yes, I watched the chase. Yes, I saw its awful conclusion.
But I also reported on it. I wrote about Fox's mistake, and uploaded a video of Fox's mistake, and helped make Fox's mistake go viral. How do you tell a grieving sister that? Because of a "severe human error," thousands watched her brother die in real time, but because of you, hundreds of thousands watched it later?
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Joshua Gillin
Apr. 30, 2013
12:27 pm
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Genevieve Belmaker
Apr. 23, 2013
12:01 pm
Journalists are often warned about the perils of getting emotionally involved with stories and subjects, but when reporting on a tragedy there’s always room to act as a human being first and a reporter second.
Reporting on the pain of … Read more
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Kenneth Irby
Apr. 20, 2013
1:34 am
On Monday, veteran photojournalist John Tlumacki captured the iconic image of the Boston Marathon bombing: runner Bill Iffrig knocked to the pavement on Boylston Street in front of a trio of police officers, each seemingly headed in a different direction.… Read more
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Roy Peter Clark
Apr. 18, 2013
4:00 pm
My colleague Al Tompkins reminds journalists to remember the case of Richard Jewell as they cover the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings. Jewell was the security guard wrongly accused of the bombing at the 1996 Olympic games in Atlanta.… Read more
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Andrew Beaujon
Apr. 10, 2013
3:56 pm
GothamSchools |
NYC Public School Parents |
New York Daily News
The blog GothamSchools asked Poynter's Kelly McBride to analyze its decision to write about the fact that public schools activist Leonie Haimson's daughter
attends private school after some of its readers
criticized the site for doing so. GothamSchools
made the right call, McBride says.
Ultimately, if you want to tell a complicated truth and hold the powerful accountable, you have to be willing to hold yourself to that same standard. Even though Haimson’s particular message is that all parents deserve small class sizes, she established her authority through her personal experience as a public school parent.
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Roy Peter Clark
Mar. 27, 2013
8:26 am
Editor’s note: This essay represents the personal and professional opinions of Roy Peter Clark and should not be used to characterize the opinions of Poynter or the standards and practices of Poynter.org.
It is time to decriminalize certain practices now … Read more
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Kelly McBride
Mar. 1, 2013
3:24 pm
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Andrew Beaujon
Feb. 25, 2013
2:41 pm
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