In the past several days, two contest-winning photographs have become fuel for a Blog world explosion of opinions on the ethics involved in digital post-processing and proper journalistic captioning. This NPPA Ethics Blog is a compilation of a series of eMails as these two issues came to light over a number of days. The participants [...]

On Tuesday, the New York Post ran a front page photo of a man about to die as a subway train approached a station where the man had been pushed into the path of the train. The ethical questions that have arisen over the conduct of the photographer, R. Umar Abbasi, (and the conduct of [...]

It started as a simple request to the members of the Ethics Committee (Peter Southwick and Steve Raymer) and Sean Elliot, President of NPPA. “Guys: is it OK with you if I post this as a blog?” In my simple newspaper background, it seemed to be an open and shut case of extreme digital manipulation. [...]

Ethics blog 8/13/12 Thursday September 13, many news organizations published a photo of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens either dead or dying after a terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi. The ethics Committee would like to add some thoughts to the discussion on the use of this image. John Long, Steve Raymer, [...]

There was some confusion caused by the three separate posts on the idea of “fill flash” in Photoshop that were posted June 3. This is a combination of these three posts. I hope this makes the debate easier to follow. JL Blog One of Three By John Long, Chairman, NPPA Ethics Committee Recently I had [...]

ETHICS MATTERS Blog Two 3/26/12 The Ethics Committee held an open discussion on the subject of High Dynamic Range photography at the recent Northern Short Course. We found that each of the three members of the committee had different levels of acceptance of HDR but that we all agreed on the basics. The discussion was [...]

ETHICS MATTERS Welcome to the new NPPA blog for ethics, “Ethics Matters.” The name was chosen for its dual meanings – we will discuss ethical issues in visual journalism which are essential to the credibility and continued viability of our profession. We will not be posting every day, but as issues arise that are of [...]

The NPPA Ethics Committee has compiled a collection of “Ethics Matters” columns that originally appeared in News Photographer Magazine. It is hoped that this compilation will be a resource for students and professionals alike. Link: http://www.nppa.org/professional_development/self-training_resources/ethics/columns/