Photojournalism And Today's News: Creating Visual Reality

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Photojournalism and Today's News provides a practical guide for aspiring photojournalists as well as an intelligent look into newsroom culture and its influences on photographic assignments, production, and editing. Written by an award-winning photo editor and director of photography, and based on interviews with more than seventy high-profile journalists, this book appeals to students and young professionals alike. Addresses a wide range of practical issues supported by in-depth examples from the field and critical thinking about photography, journalism, and newsroom culture Examines social and cultural issues and how they are communicated through photojournalism Prepares young journalists to respect their visual journalism colleagues by teaching them how to effectively work together Highlights the expectations of the newsroom and editors Table of Contents 1 Brief history of photojournalism in the United States 11 2 The visual newspaper 45 3 Construction of reality 71 4 Newsroom culture and routines 93 5 Economics 123 6 Ethics 139 7 Relationships : photographer and subject 169 8 Iraq wars 193 9 Webs and blogs 217 10 Conclusion 233 Index 247