New Ethics
Scrubbing social media to find user-created content to support a news story is known as this
What is crowd-sourcing?
This photojournalist captured an image of a soldier being burned alive during the Gulf War
Who is Kenneth Jarecke?
This document outlines ethical foundations to guide photojournalists, advocating for transparency and safety
What is the photo bill of rights?
This is W.E.B Dubois compilation of 363 images, graphs, and other visual materials, depicting the lives of Black Americans living in and around Atlanta, Georgia
What was Dubois' seminal exhibition at the PAris Exposition in 1900?
(From Terror on repeat): These are two critical objectives of the Washington Posts use of crime scene photos and videos from mass shootings
What is advancing the public's understanding of killers? OR What is being sensitive to victim's families and communities affected by violence?
Capturing a private/sensitive moment of an individual might lead you to confront this ethical dilemma
What is the public's right to know v. the subject's privacy?
After American media refused, this UK based publication decided to run Jarecke's photo
What is The Observer?
This section of the photo bill of rights outlines the access equipment, training, and a safe working environment
What is health and safety?
This term is used to describe countries that would fall under the negative term "third world countries." People here have been historically demonized in the media and portrayed as savages-- often not being included in conversations surrounding their community and culture
What is the Global South?
(From Covering Standing Rock): This journalist is considered the "Godfather of Native American Press" and founded the Native American Journalists Association
Who is Tim Giago?
Photographing sensitive subjects (ex. violence or addiction) will require engagement with this journalistic responsibility.
What is minimizing harm?
The Gulf War and Vietnam war received very different press coverage, marked notably by this
What is sanitization of content?
This section of the photo bill of rights outlines fairness in payment and contracts, and outlining protections for journalists to be able to effective combat big interests
What is finance and grievance?
As an outsider to indigenous communites, a journalist should do these things when covering the topic
What is passing the story on to a community member? What is including indigenous voices/photographers in production of the coverage?
(From The Times Published...): This is the reason the New York Times gave for publishing graphic photos
What is the responisbility to readers and truth (even when subject matter is disturbing)?
In the digital age, photos can come from a consumer or a professional. These ethical standards are required to instill trust in the image:
What are transparency and context?
Sanitized images of violence promote the desensitization of war to the citizenry, these terms are used to describe that impact more directly
What is video-game-war? What is bloodless language?
This section of the photo bill of rights outlines photojournalist's rights to a work environment free from harassment, with channels to report violations of safety/conduct
What is abuse and sexual misconduct?
This is one of the many resources journalists can use when ensuring their work does not perpetuate biases that harm indigenous communities (Stereotype bingo cards are one example of the resources they provide).
What is the Native American Journalist Association's website?
What is long-term recovery?
Seeking attributions and context for an image is how you do this.
What is validating/verifying the image?
Some violent images do not have a place in news coverage. Intentonally ommiting valuable information leads to this issue for the citizenry:
What is incomplete coverage/deception?
This principle emphasizes equal opportunity for all photojournalists regardless of their identities
What is parity, inclusion, and bias?
OPEN ENDED: "Hi I am working on a project about (insert gender/sexuality topics). I know being queer is not widely accepted in (insert location) and it's hard to be queer. I know you are queer/gender non-binary, and you are in (insert location), can you tell me everything you know, show me your most vulnerable side, give me a list of events you people often go to and connect me to all your friends?"
This is an example of a reporter (who is considered an outsider) attempting to connect with someone who is queer - what is wrong with this message and how should outsider reporters engage with queer folk for their stories?
TOP SECRET BONUS QUESTION (TOO HARD TO ANSWER-- ON NEXT SLIDE FOR CONFIDENTIALITY)
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