Photojournalism - Topics

Why the same protest photo runs in ten papers with ten different captions The crop that changed the story: how photo editing rewrites context The annotated photo: how circles and arrows became journalism How picture editors choose the one image that earns the front page Which photo runs with the story: the smiling one or the scowling one? Street style photos of celebrities — fair game or invasion of privacy? How do you credit a news agency photo properly? Is staging a news photo ever acceptable? Choosing the one image: how editors decide what a tragedy looks like Are drone shots over protests fair game for news photographers How do paparazzi get those shots and is buying them legal? When should a photographer lower the camera: the ethics of shooting suffering Portraits of grief: why newspapers publish photos of crying survivors Illustration vs photography in hard news: when to draw what cameras cannot show Can I crop or tone a news photo before publishing it? How photo editors decide which protest image leads the front page How do photo editors decide which image leads a story? How do newsroom librarians find that one photo from 1968 in under an hour? Staged hope and fired photographers: what faking it costs a newsroom Should a photo editor publish a graphic image of a tragedy? How the Napalm Girl photo changed the Vietnam War debate Embedded or freelance: how war photographers actually get front line access Why do award-winning war photos so often center on children How many iconic war photographs were staged without anyone admitting it? The smartphone made everyone a photojournalist: what we gained and lost What are the ethics of photographing a cricketer at his lowest moment? How much retouching is acceptable in cricket photojournalism? Has the smartphone camera cheapened professional news photography Agency photos on every front page: the invisible hand of wire photojournalism Can AI-generated images ever belong in news photography