Critical Photojournalism - Contemporary Ethics and Practices

An essential introduction to the complexities of visual representation, this book offers a critical new framework for understanding and practicing photojournalism in a global digital context.

List of contents

Forward
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 Photojournalism Ethics & Legal Issues
Chapter 2 Safety and Trauma-Informed Visual Journalism
Chapter 3 Breaking and General News
Chapter 4 Portraiture
Chapter 5 Sports Photography
Chapter 6 Documenting Events
Chapter 7 Long-form Visual Storytelling
Chapter 8 Photo Editing and Captions
Chapter 9 Innovation and Photojournalism
Chapter 10 Business Essentials
Conclusion
Index

About the author

Tara Pixley, PhD, is a photojournalist, assistant professor at Temple University, USA and Executive Director of Authority Collective. She has been a photo editor for the New York Times, Newsweek, CNN and The 19th. She is a Reynolds Journalism Innovation Fellow, IWMF NextGen Fellow, Pulitzer Center grantee, World Press Photo Solutions Visual Journalism grantee, and Knight Fellow at Harvard's Nieman Foundation. Tara serves as Vice President of the NPPA Board and was a co-author of the Photo Bill of Rights.
Judy Walgren is a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and chair of the Foothill College Photography Department in Los Altos Hills, California, USA. Walgren worked for decades as a staff photojournalist, photo editor and director of photography at news organizations in Dallas, Denver and San Francisco. Before joining Foothill College, she served as the associate director for the Michigan State University School of Journalism.

Product details

• Authors: Tara Pixley, Tara Walgren Pixley, Walgren Judy
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 29.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032408682
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3240868-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Photography & photographs, History, Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, PHOTOGRAPHY / Photojournalism, Press & journalism, Humanities, News media and journalism, Entertainment & media law, Art forms, Film production: technical & background skills, Photography and photographs, The Arts: art forms, Filmmaking and production: technical and background skills, Entertainment and media law