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May 30, 2022 · By Elizabeth Williamson. May 30, 2022. Leer en español. WASHINGTON — After Lenny Pozner’s six-year-old son Noah died at Sandy Hook, he briefly contemplated showing the world the damage an AR ...
- To Publish Or Not to Publish?
- Can We Legally Publish Graphic images?
- Are We Asking The Right Fundamental Question?
- What Are Your Motivations?
- Do You Have consent?
- What Is The Race Or Ethnicity of The Victims in images?
- How Will We Display The image?
- Are You Ready and Able to Explore Solutions to Gun Violence?
- Are You Taking Care of Your Journalists?
- What The Research Says
Newsroom debates over the appropriateness and consequences of publishing graphic images are not new. But following Uvalde, the tenor seems to have reached a pitch not necessarily unheard of, but perhaps more public and coming from more influential journaliststhan ever before. Relatedly, there is the question of whether to show images that depict th...
If your news outlet owns the image rights — if, for example, a staff photographer or freelancer takes the pictures or video — or obtains an image or video following regular journalistic standards, then yes. “Typically, in the United States, there isn’t an issue,” says Al-Amyn Sumar, counsel at The New York Times Company and an adjunct professor at ...
The framework for our interviews with experts assumed newsrooms would want to consider a range of potential consequences before showing graphic images. Most experts we spoke with implicitly accepted this framework. They dove into a variety of dilemmas, including concerns about glorifying mass shooters. “We know that these images act as a contagion ...
By far the most common point the experts made was that a newsroom should honestly examine their motivations for wanting to publish photographs or video of dead, dying or seriously wounded shooting victims. If the motivation is to drive website clicks or increase newspaper subscriptions, those are flat out not good reasons to publish graphic images,...
Most experts we spoke with agree it is essential for journalists to make their best effort to get consent of the victim in a photo or their surviving family. This includes talking with people likely to be directly affected about the range of things that could happen once a graphic image of their slain relative is out there. “It would really, I thin...
It’s not a hard and fast rule and it’s not exclusive to U.S.-based media, but news outlets are sometimes more apt to publish graphic images from conflicts and tragedies that happen far awayfrom their coverage areas. “The problematic side of this tendency is that the media treats suffering bodies unequally depending on their cultural and geographica...
There is no way to gauge what will happen to an image after it is published — the extent to which it will be misused and manipulated, or whether it will spur policy change. But news outlets should strive to provide as much context about the image as possible. Here are some ideas from Dahmen, the University of Oregon professor: 1. Use a single, powe...
Lauren Kogen, an assistant professor at the Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University, sums up the solutions-oriented sentiment we heard over and over in our conversations: “The ethical thing to do, as a news outlet, is to make darn sure that you’re providing [audiences] with the information that they would need as democratic vo...
In the past, when the tough-it-out mentality reigned supreme in most news organizations, reporters often suffered in silence after covering difficult stories or witnessing traumatic events. But today, as journalists can connect in more ways than ever and more reporters are openly sharing their own experiences with trauma, discussions about secondar...
The Power of Images? Visual Journalists’ Assessment of the Impact of Imagery Nicole Smith Dahmen, Kaitlin Miller and Brent Walth. Visual Communication Quarterly, March 2021. In the authors’ words: “Study findings show that most participants believe images can be agents for change, but they have not necessarily seen higher-level impacts. A key findi...
T he Washington Post made the decision on Thursday to publish a project about mass shootings that includes devastatingly graphic photos and videos from the scenes ― a rare move by the media as ...
Jul 13, 2022 · The families of those killed in a mass shooting at a Texas school have expressed anger and outrage after new video was leaked showing the attack. The 82 minutes of CCTV footage from Uvalde ...
Nov 16, 2023 · Fred Guttenberg, the father of a 14-year-old girl killed by a high school shooter in Parkland, Fla., five years ago, called the graphic photos “unnecessary” and “traumatic to those of us who ...
May 24, 2022 · Photos: The scene following a deadly elementary school shooting in Texas. By Washington Post Staff | May 24, 2022. The shooter was an 18-year-old Uvalde, Tex., resident who entered Robb Elementary ...
Nov 17, 2023 · The Washington Post will continue to roll out stories within a series on assault-style weapons and AR-15s in the coming weeks. "One of our explorations of that is trying to show just how ...
