journalism

Glance through the winners list of this year's prestigious Photography of the Year International awards, and one newspaper may jump out at you: the Dubois County Herald.

A French photographer who goes by the pseudonym Mani was recently in Homs, Syria documenting the urban warfare between …

Buzzfeed has published a gallery showing every winning photo from the World Press …

CNN created quite a stir yesterday after laying off a dozen photojournalists due to the rise of …

Roughly 50 staffers at CNN were given pink slips today, including nearly a …

Here’s a fascinating video in which Italian photographer Ruben Salvadori demonstrates how dishonest …

The Guardian has published a piece on how a four-man news operation called …

The AP has sacked photographer Miguel Tovar for "deliberate and misleading photo manipulation" after Tovar cloned out his own shadow from a feature photograph. The Photoshopping came to light after an alert photo editor spotted a strange looking dust pattern in a photo of Argentinian children playing soccer.

Emphas.is is a newly launched Kickstarter-esque website that brings the latest Internet craze of crowd funding to photojournalism.

We’ve already featured a video showing what life is like as President Obama’s official photographer, and now …

There’s a photography joke that goes, “If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph …

Update: Turns out this story wasn't true.

If you think photographers' rights in the US or UK are bad, get a load of this: Kuwait is now banning the use of DSLR cameras in public places for everyone except accredited journalists. Three ministries (information, social affairs, and finance) issued the joint ban last week, but strangely ignored the use of other cameras and forms of photography, meaning that citizens can still shoot publicly with compact cameras and camera-equipped phones.

If you have 20 minutes to spare, here's an interesting video in which winning photographers of the 66th Pictures of the Year International contest discuss the power of photojournalism and some of their work. This is similar to the "What Makes a Great Picture?" by National Geographic that we shared back in September.

This audio slideshow interview by BagNewsSalon features New York Times contract photographer Michael …

The New York Times recently issued an apology for staged photographs that appeared alongside …

What was supposed to be a routine press preview of the Turner Prize exhibition in London turned a two-hour standoff between photographers and Tate Britain gallery contract-wavers.

Press photographers refused to sign a problematic form at the door that required them to guarantee their images would not "result in any adverse publicity" for the host gallery and reportedly signed away permission sans-royalties for gallery publicity.

Instead of securing a monopoly over the favorable images produced at the event, the gallery succeeded in the opposite, mucking up press relations in a very public way.

Newspapers are fading. News media is in a limbo of redefinition. Now we can add photojournalism to that list of defunct media, said Neil Burgess, head of London-based photo agency NB Pictures. Burgess is also the former head of Network Photographers and Magnum Photos, and twice Chairman of World Press Photo, and has spent much of his life working on social documentary photography and 25 years as a photojournalist.

Earlier today, Dallas Morning News photo editor Guy Reynolds noticed a strange relationship between two Getty images of golfer Matt Bettencourt at the Reno-Tahoe Open golf tournament. One photo featured a tight image of the golfer holding up his ball, victorious, after the 11th hole. The other image, vertical, shows the golfer in the same position, but with another person standing in the background, possibly the golfer's caddy. Initially, Reynolds assumed the photograph was taken by two different photographers, from different angles. However, upon further inspection, Reynolds realized the photo was taken by the same photographer, Marc Feldman, and it appeared that the tighter image was actually altered to omit the second person.

The Sydney Morning Herald has an amazing collection of interviews with their photojournalists, sharing how they approach photography and …

There's an increasingly overwhelming sense of frustration coming from the Gulf region, but this time, it's coming from photographers and journalists. Media access has been tough since the beginning of the oil spill, whether on land, on beaches, or in the air. 

The Economist is in hot water after running an extremely edited photograph of President Obama on a Louisiana beach. The cover photo shows Obama alone on the beach. But the original photo, taken by Reuters photographer Larry Downing, shows that Obama was, in fact, not alone at all.

The altered image crops out Admiral Thad W. Allen of the Coast Guard, but also goes an extra step to completely omit the presence of Charlotte Randolph, a Louisiana parish president (perhaps with Photoshop CS5's content-aware fill).

This is a huge problem because The Economist's omissions entirely change the tone of the image in order to make Obama appear alone, hanging his head, when in fact he is likely looking down at the beach while in conversation with the two people next to him.  Additionally, according to journalism ethics, news photos should not be altered, especially to this extent.

News agency Reuters is being accused of biased reporting after it was discovered that photographs released by the agency had …

A video released on WikiLeaks.org shows disturbing footage taken in 2007 from an …

Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse is a historical consultant in Amsterdam who loves making photographs in …

There hasn’t been much directly photo-related news at CES 2010 today, but the announcements of newly redesigned e-readers might be …

Some members of the photography industry have been up in arms the past few days over an internship offered …

The journalism industry is going through particularly tough times, with revenue from ads and subscriptions declining considerably. However, during …

While an undergrad at UC Berkeley, I took an advanced photography course in which each student worked on a semester …