1st Edition

Photojournalism Disrupted The View from Australia

By Helen Caple Copyright 2019
124 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

122 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

122 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Photojournalism Disrupted addresses the unprecedented disruptions in photojournalism over the last decade, with a particular focus on the Australian news media context. Using a mixed methods approach, the book assesses the situation facing press photographers and their employers in the supply of professional imagery for news storytelling. Detailed qualitative case studies looking at special... Read more

Chapter One Introduction: A decade of disruption

Chapter Two: Investigating visual sourcing practices: Data and methodology

Chapter Three: Bearing witness to events of national significance

Chapter 4 Everyday photography: Surveying the sourcing of photographs for routine reporting

Chapter Five: The view from the inside: Interviews with industry professionals

Chapter Six Professionals and amateurs: Are we all in this together?

Biography

Helen Caple is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Her research interests centre on news photography, text-image relations and discursive news values analysis. She is currently exploring the role of citizen photography in contemporary journalism. Helen has published in the area of photojournalism and social semiotics, including Photojournalism: A Social Semiotic Approach (2013). She is also the co-author (with Monika Bednarek) of two books examining the news media: News Discourse (2012), and The Discourse of News Values (2017).