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Photojournalism in 2012: A year of excellence, ethical challenges and errors

Jeff Sonderman — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:47:24 +0000

As 2012 nears its end, we look back at the major trends and memorable events that defined photography and photojournalism this year.

Photo-sharing battle heats up

Instagram exploded into the mainstream in 2012, capitalizing on three cultural trends: The widespread … Read more

Newspaper apologizes for adding LOL to dead man’s photo caption

Craig Silverman — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:34:58 +0000

Twitter user Barry Taylor shared a very unfortunate photo caption error made by the Western Mail of Wales:

Looks like the Western Mail has sunk to unacceptable new lows. Time the editor started actually editing. #westernfail twitter.com/Gwennwys/statu…

— Barry
… Read more

Washington Post confuses one Michael Shamberg with another

Andrew Beaujon — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:13:54 +0000

Mark Jenkins’ preview of a July 14 double feature in Washington, D.C., was illustrated with a photo of filmmaker Michael Shamberg. Unfortunately, there are two filmmakers with that name, as a correction in Tuesday’s paper makes clear:

Some quick … Read more

Photo of 2001 Alaska oil spill goes viral when magazine says it’s from recent Alberta spill

Craig Silverman — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:02:21 +0000

Around 2,100 people have liked the Facebook page of Common Ground, a free monthly magazine distributed primarily in Western Canada. Yet as of this writing over 19,000 people have shared an alarming photo posted to its page on Friday… Read more

BBC mistakenly uses image of Iraq in Syrian massacre story

Craig Silverman — Mon, 28 May 2012 15:04:38 +0000

A 2003 photo taken in Iraq was mistakenly used by the BBC website to illustrate a report about the recent massacre in Houla, Syria.

The Daily Telegraph reports that the image of a child jumping over body bags was … Read more

Three ways to spot if an image has been manipulated

Craig Silverman — Thu, 24 May 2012 12:44:29 +0000

Over the course of 16 years spent working in product management for Adobe, Kevin Connor often heard customers ask if there was any way to determine whether an image had been altered using Photoshop.

“We would get calls pretty frequently … Read more

U.K. editor preaches precise photo captions

Craig Silverman — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:31:16 +0000

Guy Keleny is The Independent’s letters editor. But I know him as paper’s stylebook writer and author of the oft-amusing and always informative Errors and Omission column about grammar and style. It’s The Independent’s version of the old New York … Read more

The Daily Mirror apologizes for major photo error

Craig Silverman — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:22:42 +0000

The Daily Mirror apologizes for a major photo error:

APOLOGY to Patricia Belda Martinez.

WITH Saturday’s Daily Mirror we distributed a supplement entitled ‘Women who Kill’ which we trailed on the front page of the newspaper with a picture of … Read more

Two wrong Barbara Johnsons may be the best duo of Washington Post corrections ever

Craig Silverman — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 02:18:27 +0000

Jim Romenesko chronicles what he says may be the best one-two punch of Washington Post corrections ever… Read more

Vancouver Sun pairs story about contaminated breast milk with photo of Queen Elizabeth

Craig Silverman — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:42:09 +0000

I don’t think this was the right photo choice for a story about contaminated breast milk, Vancouver Sun:

We notified the paper about the error this morning and will let you know when we hear back.

Thanks to Annie … Read more