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As the visual component of contemporary media has overtaken the verbal, visual reportage has established a unique and extremely significant role in 21st-century culture. Julianne Newton has prepared this comprehensive analysis of the development of the role of visual reportage as a critical player in the evolution of our understanding of ourselves, others, and the world. The Burden of Visual Truth offers a first assessment of the role of visual journalism within the context of the complex, cross-disciplinary pool of literature and ideas required for synthesis. Newton approaches the subject matter from several perspectives, examining the theoretical and ideological bases for visual truth, particularly as conveyed by the news media, and applying relevant research on photojournalism and reality imagery to contemporary newspaper, broadcast, and internet professional practice. She extends visual communication theory by proposing an ecology of the visual for 21st century life and developing a typology of human visual behavior. Scholars in visual studies, media studies, journalism, nonverbal communication, cultural history, and psychology will find this analysis invaluable as a comprehensive base for studying reality imaging and human visual behavior. The volume also is appropriate for journalism and media studies coursework at the undergraduate and graduate levels. With its conclusions about the future of visual reportage, The Burden of Visual Truth also will be compelling reading for journalism and mass communication professionals concerned with improving media credibility and maintaining a significant course for journalism in the 21st century. For all who seek to understand the role of visual media in the formation of their views of the world and of their own identities, this volume is a must-read.

Photojournalism. --- Journalism --- Camera journalism --- Editorial photography --- Journalism, Camera --- Journalistic photography --- News photography --- Photo journalism --- Photography, Journalistic --- Photography for the press --- Press photography --- Commercial photography --- Illustrated periodicals --- Journalism. --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- Publicity --- Fake news

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This text examines the use of images in journalistic contexts and the manipulation of these images to accomplish varying objectives. It provides a framework for critical discussion among professionals, educators, students, and concerned consumers of newspapers, magazines, online journals, and other nonfiction media. It also offers a method of assessing the ethics of mass-media photos, which will help visual journalists to embrace new technologies while preserving their credibility.

Photojournalism --- Image processing --- Mass media criticism. --- Criticism of the mass media --- Mass media --- Criticism --- Pictorial data processing --- Picture processing --- Processing, Image --- Imaging systems --- Optical data processing --- Camera journalism --- Editorial photography --- Journalism, Camera --- Journalistic photography --- News photography --- Photo journalism --- Photography, Journalistic --- Photography for the press --- Press photography --- Commercial photography --- Journalism --- Illustrated periodicals --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Digital techniques --- Evaluation

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How does a photograph become a news image? An ethnography of the labor behind international news images, Image Brokers ruptures the self-evidence of the journalistic photograph by revealing the many factors determining how news audiences are shown people, events, and the world. News images, Zeynep Gürsel argues, function as formative fictions - fictional insofar as these images are constructed and culturally mediated, and formative because their public presence and circulation have real consequences in the world. Set against the backdrop of the War on Terror and based on fieldwork conducted at photojournalism's centers of power, Image Brokers offers an intimate look at an industry in crisis. At the turn of the 21st century, image brokers-the people who manage the distribution and restriction of news images-found the core technologies of their craft, the status of images, and their own professional standing all changing rapidly with the digitalization of the infrastructures of representation. From corporate sales meetings to wire service desks, newsrooms to photography workshops and festivals, Image Brokers investigates how news images are produced and how worldviews are reproduced in the process.

Mass communications --- Photography --- News agencies --- Photographs --- Photojournalism --- News-gathering organizations --- News services --- News wire services --- Wire services --- Newspapers --- Press --- Photos --- Snapshots --- Pictures --- Camera journalism --- Editorial photography --- Journalism, Camera --- Journalistic photography --- News photography --- Photo journalism --- Photography, Journalistic --- Photography for the press --- Press photography --- Commercial photography --- Journalism --- Illustrated periodicals --- Marketing --- Social aspects. --- digital news circulation. --- digital news images. --- image brokerage. --- images from the war on terror. --- journalism. --- journalist photograph. --- journalistic photography. --- marketing photographs. --- media studies. --- news agencies. --- news brokers. --- news images. --- news. --- photographers. --- photography. --- photojournalism. --- press images. --- press photography. --- production of news images. --- selling press images. --- visual culture. --- visual impact of journalism. --- visual media. --- visual news. --- war on terror.