Andrew Beaujon
Jan. 15, 2013
5:09 pm
Reuters
Agence France-Presse and The Washington Post
shouldn't have used photographs by Daniel Morel, a U.S. District Court judge has ruled. Erin Geiger Smith reports:
While AFP had argued that once the pictures appeared on Twitter they were freely available, the judge said that Twitter's terms of service did not give the news agency a license to publish the images without Morel's permission.
Morel tweeted his photos of damage from the Haiti earthquake in 2010; an AFP editor found them and distributed several through Getty Images. The Post, a Getty client, then published some of them. (The British Journal of Photography published
a more detailed chronology last year.)
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Jeff Sonderman
Jan. 10, 2013
10:20 am
By now you’ve heard about how The Journal News of Westchester County, N.Y., published the names and addresses of thousands of local gun permit holders.
And you’ve heard that many gun owners felt The Journal News was either insulting their … Read more
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Andrew Beaujon
Jan. 4, 2013
6:24 pm
Associated Press |
BuzzFeed
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
defended her office's use of Photoshop to
represent some female lawmakers who arrived late for a photo shoot.
"It was an accurate historical record of who the Democratic women of Congress are," Pelosi told a news conference. "It also is an accurate record that it was freezing cold and our members had been waiting a long time for everyone to arrive and ... had to get back into the building to greet constituents, family members, to get ready to go to the floor. It wasn't like they had the rest of the day to stand there."
In a statement released Saturday, The National Press Photographers Association and the White House News Photographers Association point out that changes were made to the photograph beyond what Pelosi's office originally reported:
A further review of the photo shows that not only were the four missing Congresswomen added but that the image was also manipulated to show other Congresswomen who were blocked in the original photo as well as redoing the hair of another. Rather than being a true and “accurate historical record” as the House Minority Leader stated in her defense of the use of the photo, the hand-out represents an example of the dangers in using a manipulated official photograph, thus undermining the public’s trust in visual images.
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Andrew Beaujon
Dec. 12, 2012
9:40 am
The New York TimesBrandon Woodard walks down West 58th Street, his attention on his phone. A man in khakis and a hooded coat approaches. In a moment, he will shoot Woodard in the head.
The
photo of this ghastly tableau runs in Wednesday's New York Times, courtesy the New York Police Department, which is attempting to gather information on the suspect. It's taken from security video, and the Times and
other outlets have published video of the murder suspect getting out of his Lincoln and walking around the scene ominously.
So what's different between this scene of a man in his last seconds of life and the picture of Ki-Suck Han that
ran on the cover of the New York Post last week under the headline: "DOOMED: Pushed on the subway track, this man is about to die"?
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Jeff Sonderman
Dec. 6, 2012
9:52 am
New York Times | Reuters | Technosociology | Time
The family of Ki-Suck Han, the man immortalized in a front-page New York Post
photo of his impending death on a subway track, spoke publicly on Wednesday about the impact of the image.
The New York Times
reports:
"After they saw this photo, they couldn’t sleep," the Rev. Won Tae Cho said of Mr. Han's wife and daughter during a news conference at Faith Presbyterian Church in Maspeth, Queens, on Wednesday afternoon as both women sat nearby. “They stayed at my home. It is difficult to see them. It was traumatic."
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Kelly McBride
Dec. 5, 2012
8:55 am
The Internet blew up with righteous criticism of the New York Post for publishing a photo of a man about to be crushed by a subway train and the photographer who took that picture.
Any one of us could be … Read more
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Jeff Sonderman
Dec. 3, 2012
10:54 am
Gallup
Less than a quarter of the American public gives journalists high marks for honesty and ethics, according to the
latest survey from Gallup.
The polling organization asks Americans to rate the honesty and ethical standards of 22 common professions. Journalists fell in the middle of the pack, with 24 percent giving a "high"/"very high" rating, 45 percent "average," and 30 percent "low"/"very low." Only 5 percent said "very high."
Journalists ranked narrowly behind bankers, but ahead of business executives, various politicians, lawyers and salespeople. (The medical field dominates the most-trusted professions: nurses, pharamacists, doctors, dentists.)
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Craig Silverman
Oct. 26, 2012
10:47 am
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Roy Peter Clark
Oct. 17, 2012
10:37 am
I will be the first to admit that when I heard the phrases “Zumba instructor” and “prostitution” and “Kennebunk, Maine” collide in the same news story, I sat up and took notice. I’m inclined to read any story with … Read more
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Oct. 8, 2012
8:04 am
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