photo journalism ethics pdf

Citizen and embedded journalism Rukhshan Mir. Today the word paparazzo has replaced the photojournalist in the common jargon. But as long as photojournalists do not subtract or add parts of a picture's internal elements, almost any other manipulation once accomplished in a photographic darkroom is considered ethical for news-editorial purposes. Considering that photography itself is barely years old, one might wonder how these particular ethical guidelines came to be, and how they may be evolving over time. The codes of conduct of the principal agencies and associations of journalists chief among them the Society of Professional Journalists, the Canadian Association of Journalists, and the Associated Press as well as those of the major daily newspapers the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times all subordinate digital alteration to the canonical model of the analogue.

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