This article explores the practices of selecting news images that depict death at a global picture agency, national picture agency and a news magazine. The study is based on ethnographic observations ...and interviews (N = 30) from three Western-based news organisations, each representing a link in the complex international news-image circulation process. Further, the organisations form an example of a chain of filters through which most of the news images produced for the global market have to pass before publication. These filters are scrutinised by the empirical case studies that examine the professionals’ ethical reasoning regarding images of violence and death. This research contributes to an understanding of the differences and similarities between media organisations as filters and sheds light on their role in shaping visual coverage. This study concludes that photojournalism professionals’ ethical decision-making is discursively constructed around three frames: (1) shared ethics, (2) relative ethics and (3) distributed ethics. All the organisations share certain similar conceptions of journalism ethics at the level of ideals. On the level of workplace practices and routines, a mixture of practical preconditions, journalism’s self-regulation, business logic and national legislation lead to differences in the image selection practices. It is argued that the ethical decision-making is distributed between – and sometimes even outsourced to – colleagues working in different parts of the filtering chain. Finally, this study suggests that dead or suffering bodies are often invisible in the images of the studied media organisations.
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has spread to many countries and has been causing serious repercussions as a pandemic. The use of digital technologies has increased significantly during the ...pandemic and they have helped transform people’s lives. In this study, COVID-19-related news disseminated by four news sites in Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) were analyzed. It was investigated whether news sites are broadcast in accordance with ethical principles. Semi-structured interviews were held with communication specialists and psychologists to identify the reasons, effects, and prevention methods of ethical violations on digital journal news. It was found that ethical principles are not completely considered owing to the expectations to increase the number of clicks and profits of the four news sites examined. It is recommended that trainings should be conducted on ethical principles, personal rights, and awareness creation. Additionally, revisions should be made in relevant laws and an “Internet News Site Ethics Committee” should be established.
This paper concerns the contemporary status of the documentary or news photograph of suffering. Using the paradigmatic case of the return of photojournalists to the scenes of compelling images they ...have made, it argues for the ethical value of reconnecting them with the lives and voices of those photographed. The paper draws upon theories of photojournalism that emphasize the need to take these images' connection to the real seriously and describe the civic space they open up between photographers, the photographed, and the public. When photojournalists return, the paper suggests, they are confronted with these contemporary expectations of the photograph, expressed as both political and ethical demands. It proposes also that the reflexivity of the return can allow photojournalists to negotiate some of the ethical problems that arise when making photographs of others' misfortune. In particular, it can transform the return into an act of caring. These points are used to explore ways in which the discourse and further images that surround a powerful image can reconnect audiences with those photographed.
Journalism education in Indonesia lately faces crucial and critical challenges as a result of the increase of ethical offences. As a leading institution, Mass Communication Study Program (MCSP), ...Universitas Sebelas Maret develops a new teaching journalism model on the basis of local wisdom to address the challenge. Having two-year implementation the model needs to be evaluated to assess its effectiveness in reaching the targeted teaching outcome. Context, Input, Process and Product (CIPP) evaluation model were chosen as the approach for the evaluation. The CIPP model provides a comprehensive framework on how to evaluate the effectiveness of the teaching model, what aspects should be considered and who should be involved. While the CIPP evaluation model provides concept and theoretical framework about components that should be involved in evaluation process, Zhang's working paper suggests operational framework on how to use the CIPP model in educational setting. The evaluation showed that teacher's capacity and capability have significant contribution to the effectiveness of the teaching model in achieving targeted teaching outcome.
This text examines the use of images in journalistic contexts and the manipulation of these images to accomplish varying objectives. It provides a framework for critical discussion among ...professionals, educators, students, and concerned consumers of newspapers, magazines, online journals, and other nonfiction media. It also offers a method of assessing the ethics of mass-media photos, which will help visual journalists to embrace new technologies while preserving their credibility. Phototruth or Photofiction? also: *recounts the invention of photography and how it came to be accorded an extraordinary degree of trust; *details how photos were staged, painted, composited and otherwise faked, long before digital technology; *lists contemporary image-altering products and practices; *details many examples of manipulated images in nonfiction media and lists rationales offered in defense of them; *explains how current ethical principles have been derived; *lays groundwork for an ethical protocol by explaining conventions of taking, processing, and publishing journalistic photos; and *offers tests for assessing the appropriateness of altered images in non-fiction media. Each chapter is followed by "Explorations" designed to facilitate classroom discussion and to integrate into those interactions the students' own perceptions and experiences. The book is intended for students and others interested in the manipulation of images.
Provider: - Institution: - Data provided by Europeana Collections- In the multicultural context recognized by the 1991 Colombian Constitution, the ethnic
issues are everyday more relevant because of ...their linking with the process of citizenshipbuilding.
Nevertheless, the Colombian media, in spite of celebrating the bicentenary of a supposed "independence", are yet anchored to a "colonial" and hegemonic vision of "the ethnic" which has strengthened an excluding meta-reality and which has make impossible the development of a pacific and effective integration between the indigenous communities of the country: in reverse, they was transformed in "absent voices". This work would expose the "vices and virtues" of the Colombian journalism in connection with the ethnic issues. Based in some case-studies and sharing the Negri’s perspective about the cracks of the Empire, we can aspire to a journalism compromised with peace, with new strategies of action to build social tissue and to promote public policies human-development-oriented.- En el contexto multicultural reconocido por la Constitución colombiana del 1991, los
asuntos étnicos cobran cada día más relevancia en función de su articulación con los
procesos de construcción ciudadana. Sin embargo, los medios de información colombianos,
a pesar de estar celebrando el bicentenario de una supuesta "independencia", se encuentran
todavía anclados a una visión "colonial" y hegemónica de "lo étnico" que ha fortalecido
una meta-realidad excluyente y que ha imposibilitado el desarrollo de una integración
pacífica y efectiva de las comunidades indígenas del país: al revés, las ha transformadas en
"voces ausentes". La presente exposición quiere ser una reflexión sobre los vicios y las
virtudes del periodismo colombiano con relación a los asuntos étnicos. A partir del análisis
de algunos casos de estudio y compartiendo la perspectiva de Antonio Negri acerca de las
"grietas" del Imperio, es posible pensar a un periodismo comprometido para la paz, con
nuevas modalidades operativas y nuevas estrategias de acción para la construcción de tejido
social y el fomento de políticas públicas orientadas hacia el desarrollo humano.- All metadata published by Europeana are available free of restriction under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. However, Europeana requests that you actively acknowledge and give attribution to all metadata sources including Europeana
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