PROFESSIONAL PHOTOJOURNALISM IN THE AGE OF NEW MEDIA

Authors

  • Rareş BEURAN Lecturer PhD, Director of Media Studio, Department of Journalism, Faculty of Political Sciences, Public Administration and Communication, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: beuran@fspac.ro. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3844-7708

Keywords:

profesional photojournalism practices, photojournalist, new media

Abstract

The article focuses on the challenges that professional photojournalism is facing in the New Media age when the ability to provide news images is no longer restricted to professional photojournalists. Due to the rapid development of the digital technologies, professional photojournalists need to adapt to new forms of production and of distribution, along with new preferences of news consumption. The paper provides a general overview of professional photojournalism industry highlighting the changes due to the online medium. Furthermore, the study explores the difference between citizen photojournalists and professional ones, also referring to the employment of professional photojournalists and their professional standards. Finally, the paper investigates the experiences of local professional photojournalists that have been practicing photojournalism both in new media and in the age of print media.

References

Campbell, David. (March 2010). Photojournalism in the New Media Economy, in Nieman Reports, Retrieved December 10 2015, from http://niemanreports.org/articles/photojournalism-in-the-new-media-economy/.

Campbell, David. (April 2013). World Press Photo, The report of a research project: Visual Storytelling in the Age of Post-Industrialist Journalism, Retrieved December 9 2015, from http://www.worldpressphoto.org/sites/default/files/upload/World%20Press%20Photo%20Multimedia%20Research%20Project%20by%20David%20Campbell.pdf.

Horton, Brian, Associated Press Guide to Photojournalism, Second Edition, Addison-Wesley Publishing, 2001.

Garcia, Alex. (2012, May 29) Will Citizen Photojournalism Take Over the News Industry?, Retrieved December 4 2015, from http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/assignment-chicago/2012/05/will-citizen-photojournalism-take-over-the-news-industry.html.

Vallaeys, B. (2013, November 13). AUJOURD’HUI, UN «LIBÉ» SANS PHOTO, Retrieved December 3 2015, from http://next.liberation.fr/culture/2013/11/13/aujourd-hui-un-libe-sans-photo_946753.

The Associated Press (31, May 2013). Chicago Sun-Times Lays Off All Its Full-Time Photographers, Retrieved December 5 2015, from http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/01/business/media/chicago-sun-times-lays-off-all-its-full-time-photographers.html.

Beaumont, Claudine. (16, January 2009). New York plane crash: Twitter breaks the news, again, Retrieved December 10 2015, from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/4269765/New-York-plane-crash-Twitter-breaks-the-news-again.html

Loup, Langton, Photojournalism and Today’s News. Creating Visual Reality, Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.

McCairley, David, (2009). Photojournalists - An endangered species in Europe?, European Federation of Journalists, Retrieved December 10 2015, from https://newmediagr.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/photojournalists.pdf.

Nieman Reports. (Spring, 2010). Edition on Visual Journalism, Retrieved December 11 2015, from http://niemanreports.org/issues/spring-2010/.

STUDIA UBB EPHEMERIDES, Volume 60 (LX), No. 2, December 2015

Downloads

Published

2015-12-30

How to Cite

BEURAN, R. . (2015). PROFESSIONAL PHOTOJOURNALISM IN THE AGE OF NEW MEDIA. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Ephemerides, 60(2), 5–16. Retrieved from http://193.231.18.162/index.php/subbephemerides/article/view/4600

Issue

Volume 60, No. 2, December 2015

Section

Articles

License

Copyright (c) 2015 Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Ephemerides

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.