1) What's the role of photojournalism?
The role of photojournalism is another form of journalism that uses photos or videos to provide information, a story or point of view. The images shown are to enhance the readers’ emotions and feelings of the subject. These images bring the story to life.
2) Are there rules that photojournalists should follow? Why? Why not?
The rules that photojournalists should follow would be that they should never edit the photos. Since the photos are used to portray the reality of a story, why would they need to alter it? They should not have to if they have captured the photo at the right moment at the right time. Editing photos to enhance the image may be used, but deleting objects/ people are not allowed.
3) Is the ethics of taking journalistic photos different than the ethics of writing a news story?
I believe that they are the same. Photo’s can be enhanced to make it clearer, so can stories. Using captivating words or a larger vocabulary can make it more understanding for a reading. The same ethics in photo’ and stories are the same. They should not be altered to change the truth or meaning of the captured image or story.
4) What's the impact of altering press photographs? Should they be edited (at all) in postproduction?
I think that the impact of altering press photographs can be misleading and untruthful that it doesn’t become as desired as photos aren’t edited. I don’t think that they should be edited at all in postproduction because the takes the truth out of the image.
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