Category Archives: photography

The Verge: Drone Journalism Lab takes reporting to the sky

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"The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's College of Journalism and Mass Communications is starting a lab to educate students on what it sees as one of the new frontiers for newsgathering and reporting: drone journalism. The lab will look at the ethical, legal, and privacy concerns surrounding the collection of video and photographs from small, unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as provide hands-on experience: students will be building their own drone platforms to collect data in the field."

Reuters: Osama Bin Laden is dead – prove it

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"[The] editors on the Global Picture Desk found inconsistencies that immediately made us suspicious. There was odd pixilation and blurring and his face was darker in some areas than others. The biggest problem was that the picture looked familiar somehow. Quickly looking through dozens of our archive pictures we found that the bottom half of Osama Bin Laden’s face was identical to a picture of him speaking at a news conference in 1998. ... The fake picture was locked in our system so that it couldn’t be sent out but would be saved for future training exercises. Meanwhile, the fake picture quickly gained momentum in cyber space."

BBC College of Journalism Blog: In praise of the audio slideshow

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Kevin Marsh: "The audio slideshow suffers from a default perception that it's neither one thing nor the other; something less than video while tainting the purity of audio. ... Put the two together - great audio documentary and great still images - and you have something that is potentially MORE than great storytelling."

New York Times: Passenger Hailed as Hero Quickly Finds Spotlight Can Have a Harsh Glow

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"[Jasper Schuringa]’s work with the news media outlets raised questions: Was he inappropriately profiting from a national-security incident? And should broadcast networks and newspapers be paying for photo rights from sources they interviewed? Given the changing tone in the coverage, Mr. Schuringa appeared to rethink his approach."

Mediaite: CNN Pays For Cell Phone Image, Plane “Hero” Wants Payment For Interviews

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"CNN clarifies the network did not pay for the actual interview during CNN Newsroom. However, there’s a reason Schuringa has not appeared any further on CNN or any other network – we hear he has asked for additional payment for any future interviews. The practice of paying a 'licensing fee' rather than a direct exchange is a way networks who claim to never pay for interviews can get around the issue. By paying for images and video, they are free to say no money was exchanged hands for the actual interview."

Gawker: The Shady Mainstream Media Payday of Flight 253 Hero Jasper Schuringa

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I'm really struggling to understand why the US media is so annoyed about this: "[Jasper Schuringa] sold the 'TV Rights' of the first of his two photos to CNN for $10K. The 'print rights' went to the Post for $5K. Later, Schuringa was paid upwards of $3K by ABC News for a second photo, which Schuringa tried to sell to other local news outlets for $5K, unsuccessfully. Jasper Schuringa made at least $18,000 from two shitty, blurry photos."

Comment is free: Photography is our right, our freedom

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Henry Porter: "The abuse of section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 is an established part of British life and is affecting the work of professional photographers and journalists, as well as the pleasure of amateurs. It is an outrageous infringement of an elementary liberty and it is something that we all should be concerned about, because this particular battle has symbolic significance."

Guardian: From snapshot to Special Branch: how my camera made me a terror suspect

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Paul Lewis: "While the use of anti-terrorist stop and search powers has fallen in recent months, a succession of high-profile incidents involving the use of the legislation against photographers has embarrassed senior officers, who privately concede that the rank and file are misusing their powers on the ground."