Processing the News: Retouching in Photojournalism

• Photojournalism in digital age brings questions of objectivity, truth, ethics, and deception into sharp relief. 
• Photographers, photo editors, and other defenders of the faith made it their mission to upload a rigid set of journalistic standards regarding image processing and manipulation. 
• David Campbell, secretary for World Press Photo Contest pointed out that ever digital photo that's been made has been processed, even if the creator never glanced at the cloning tool. 
• News and documentary organizations built some consensus about what isn't acceptable. Material alteration to the image by including or excluding a certain item.
• Cross-processing film and light leaks are all okay, but playing with saturation in Photoshop isn't. 
• It's very difficult and painful time to be a photojournalist because we don't really know what's a fiction photo or nonfiction photo. 
• Every digital photo leaves a trail when it passes through a camera or is processed by a piece of software. 

Something interesting that I learned from reading the article was that Photoshop has ruined how readers see the photojournalists work. However, by geotagging where the image was taken and who was involved in making it will allow readers to see how the work was produced and they will have more confidence in the work. Something that I can take from this article that can help me with my project would be to not edit and manipulate my photos a bunch in Photoshop.