Blurring Boundary

“Silence can become complicity in oppression,” articulated Carol Guzy, as her eyes, filled with compassion and wisdom, scanned the audience. A four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, she radiated ethos, and my fellow National Youth Correspondents at the Washington Journalism and Media Conference soaked up every carefully crafted word. She touched on what it means to wield a camera or a pen to fight for the things others would wield a gun to defend, and how personal values make the journalist, not expensive technology or flashy gimmicks. During the half hour she spoke I realized that the personal impact journalism has is just as important as the societal effect. Carol Guzy’s voice was shown in images of tragedy-stricken places: New Orleans in 2005, Haiti in 2010; mine is shown in the words I string together as I try to better understand the world around me.

Clay Shirky who wrote Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable (1993) argues that society doesn’t need newspapers society needs journalism to save society. Shirky supports this argument by giving a historical background to the problems newspapers face and how the problems have developed over time and the solutions society has came up with. The blogger concludes that in order for journalism to go farther new models must be created in place of past molds. Shirky directs this blog toward the current and future generations in attempt to motivate new models and methods of journalism.

But a newspaper reporter, instead of holing up in isolation, was in touch with the rest of the world. What the reporter wrote influenced what people thought about and talked about the next day; he knew what was really going on. I decided I wanted to be one of the people who knew what was really going on”(204).

Photographic journalism has raised ethical questions for as long as it has been around. In it’s essence, photojournalism serves to enhance written and verbal journalism by giving readers and viewers a visual, tangible link to a story. One huge problem that photos can raise is the context they’re used in. For instance, a photo could affect it’s audience in complete different ways if it is on the front cover of a magazine or if it’s on an inside page. In 2012, the New York Post published an issue with an image on the front cover that caused a lot of debate. It was a picture of a man that had been pushed off a subway platform and a train heading straight for him. Perhaps one of the most controversial things about this photo was it’s headline:

Quinn expresses a fundamental concern with the validity and objectivity of journalism with the coming of the digital age, and the increasing role that digital/information technology plays in media that reports or represents reality. Quinn begins his 2004 paper with the mention of the transition of non-digital/traditional photography into mainly digital photography with respect to journalism. More than just the changing of the photographic platform and format, Quinn notes the role that computer software that specializes in photographic manipulation in journalism. Early on, he contends, "Technical advancement has helped photojournalism be more effective in may ways, but has also created ethical challenges in making deception expeditious and less transparent." (Quinn, 2004, 1) The article explores this ethical quandary. Digital technology, photographic software, and digital manipulation are tightly integrated into modern photojournalism, among many other industries and fields. Quinn challenges readers to consider and explore the ethics of photographic manipulation and the implications upon perception. He presents the digital manipulation as having a positive and use; furthermore, that at this point in history and in the profession of photojournalism, it is unavoidable. Quinn clearly additionally presents the issue as loaded with negative ethical implications and

The world we live in is advancing more and more every day. We are beginning to exceed boundaries and reach new limits. Science and Technology has come a long way since Copernicus said that the sun was the center of the universe. Science fiction is slowly coming to life. We are building robots that are extremely similar to humans, modifying genes, and creating clones. Authors wrote about these abstract ideas not too long ago, but at the time they seemed far-fetched. Scientific and technological advancement may be for good or for evil. The good side is the advancements in medicine that could limit the risk of a particular disease or even cure one. The potentially bad side is the steps we may take to get there without knowing the long-term effect. In Michael Bess’s article “Blurring the Boundary Between Person and Product,” he discusses the advancement of genetic

In the world of journalism, investigative journalism is no stranger. However, years upon years ago, it was introduced by the most unlikely of journalists: a woman who truly defied all odds. That woman was Elizabeth Jane Cochrane. Though the future Nellie Bly was raised under tight circumstances, and had almost no high-level education whatsoever, she managed to be one of the best journalists of her day, to bring forth “stunt journalism,” and to give a hope to other women aspiring to write about more than the common “woman’s articles.”

The world is very sensitive as to what is able to be published to the media. Back before the 21st century, humans were even more conscious about what was to be published. People want to escape reality by not allowing morbid things to be printed in their newspapers. By doing this, humans tend to be oblivious as to what is going on in the world. In reality, photojournalism is the best way to go about bringing news to citizens. However, with photojournalism comes risks.

The article “ The Reality of a Fake Image” talks about The Los Angeles Times photojournalist Brian Walski’s fabricated photograph of the British soldier and a Iraqi man carrying his child.  In the photo the soldier was motioning to a crowd of people to stay down to avoid nearby fighting while a man carrying a child stands up and moves toward him. After the image was featured on many US newspapers, they come to find out that the image was a composite of two different images cobbled together. Walski was fired immediately along with other journalist who commented publicly. In the article, Carlson examines the efforts to define and understand Walski’s transgression and the trade press discourse responding to the incident. He starts off talking

Arguing that modern journalism is merging with the entertainment and online realms, James Fallows, in “Learning to Love the New Media,” compares and contrasts today’s modern press with the media of years past. The media’s role, Fallows believes, has always been to inform the public of information without sole concern for profit; however, due to industry deregulation and the advent of the Internet, journalists are increasingly writing stories targeted for public desire rather than for civic service. According to some, this shift in journalistic intention is causing American news to present fewer viable solutions to real-world problems and has ultimately made it less objective. Fallows, considering the past, highlights how historical

An empirical content analysis of the video reporting of the Boulie tacks protest ride: with respect to Hall, Ericson, Schlesinger and Bourdieu to what extent do the differences and similarities in the range of sources used in the video stories explore a number of the varying aspects of the diverging theoretical discussions on the source-journalist relationship?

The blog is somewhat informative but mostly persuasive and opinionated. The purpose of this blog is to inform the audience or readers of how ridiculous and impractical the idea of citizen journalism really is and to shift the power that citizen journalism has to traditional or professional journalism. The audience, in this case, are the readers

Imagine what news would appear as without photographs or the newsfeeds and with only long paragraphs without images? Due to the advancement of technology, the art of photojournalism has been altered. In order to understand the importance of photojournalism, it is necessary to look at what photojournalism is and the history of it, the responsibilities of photojournalists, the negatives of photojournalism, the impact photojournalism has on society, and the changes of photojournalism because of modern technology.

To wholly have a grasp on how this new founded approach to journalism has changed alongside technology—as well as understanding the dangers such openness brings forth—one has to understand what exactly those changes are. Primarily, those that are writing for the sake of offering information have, whether willingly or not, fed into the usage of social media as it has become a centralized method of distribution that is relatively inescapable with the current times. As such those framing the news for the masses find an authentic avenue to stay in contact via social media that has benefits ranging from, “its extraordinary newsgathering potential; its potential as a new tool to engage the audience; and as a way of distributing our news” (Eltringham, 2012), all of which are deeply different from the presentation of reporting that occurred during earlier eras. Days of strongly structured instances of journalism that could not travel with such speed have been replaced as, “social media has trashed many of the foundations on

In this era, the popularity of citizen journalism has spread throughout all over the world. As a matter of fact, more and more people are starting to take benefit of content publishers. This can be seen in Television news, such as winter snow photos, traffic accidents or local sporting events. However, it leaves a question, what exactly is news anyway? What do you need to be a citizen journalist? What is its impact on today's fast-paced society? Basically, a lot of people think this is a great thing and it can be a good tool for promoting interaction between the media community and the community. There are pros and cons of citizen journalism, we need to face this issue critically and dialectically (Techopedia, 2017). On the one hand, citizen journalism has some benefits that professional journalism can not provide. Firstly, comparing with professional journalism, citizen journalism provides a wider range of news and fills the gaps in mainstream media. The main body of the dissemination of citizen journalism is ordinary citizens rather than professional journalists or professional media. People can through the Facebook, microblog,Twitter to publish news which happened around their life. Delicacy, beautiful scenery, sports events, entertainments, political commentary can be seen in Weibo, Twitter, Facebook and so on. Secondly, citizen journalism could stimulate the interest of audience. Most audiences enjoy reading