An Open letter to the Journalistic outlets

Journalistic outlets are playing a significant role in the shaping of public opinion. Journalists support in fighting against all global crisis and carrying out relentless campaigns against all odds. Journalists also act as watchdog to protect public interest against malpractice and create public awareness in the time of crisis. Currently, Journalists all over the world are covering the global outbreak of Covid-19 continuously. Since the pandemic outspread in Bangladesh, journalists have been on the frontline like others front-liner or emergency workers. They are going to the ground with the risks of being infected as stories cannot be covered from self-quarantine.

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Ethics is a practice of moral theories that affect how people make decisions and lead their lives. Ethical theories divide into three parts: Meta-ethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics. Mata-ethics deals with characteristics or nature of ethics. Normative ethics deals with the theories, rules and principle of moral conduct. And applied ethics involves with problem solving area of moral philosophy. According to the ‘Ethics in Media Communications’ by Louis A. Day; Ethics reflects a society’s notion about the rightness and wrongness and the distinctions between virtue and vice. Ethics surveys the logical justification for our moral judgments. …

Copyright is an official right to control the distribution, copying, and alteration of original works of authorship. And works must be fixed in a tangible form.

The law on copyright deals with original intellectual creation in the ‘literary, scientific, and artistic domain, whatever the mode or form of its expression’ (Article 2(1) of the convention.

Freger Reyes claims that his seven-year-old photo concept has been stolen by Geoge Tapan.

Under the law on copyright, if the concept of two photographs are similar is not enough to be in violation of copyright. Anyone cannot copyright a concept for a photograph. Ideas…

The definite purpose of objectivity is to form a true representation of the world but objectivity is no certification of truth. The truth as you see it might be dissimilar to the truth as someone else sees it. There are always diverse sides to it. And not anyone is truly ever objective. Everyone has their own opinions. Everyone has their own biases. And Everyone sees the world over their own experiences.

Photojournalism has always been considered to have a practice of reflecting the truth, accuracy, objectivity.

But, does a photojournalist represent “objectively?”

In 1968 Photojournalist Larry Burrows photographed Ngwyen Thi…

The shape of Photojournalism is changing due to advancement of technologies and digitized formats of communication. We live in the era of information consumption and data absorption where anyone can share and spread the personal experience of an event in real time on their social media platforms. Citizens have now changed their position as recipients of information, to providers. Citizen journalists are considered as an alternative form of news gathering and reporting, taking place outside of the traditional media structures.

It is true that there are some places where citizen journalist is playing a significant role in reporting actual scenario…

Photojournalism is the observation and recording of the event or situation through image and reporting it to the others who were not there. It serves as witness of the events happening within our society. It is playing a significant roll about the truth of a news report since ‘Barricades on rue Saint-Maur’ (1848), the first photo to be illustrated in a newspaper. Like different forms of journalism, it works to convey a message or story that helps someone or calls attention to a problem that makes a difference in people’s lives. …