Opinion

After working as Central Command’s spokesman for the war in Iraq, Josh Rushing became a reporter for Al Jazeera and writes about his transformative journey.

‘As journalists, we make moral and subjective choices all of the time, just like the people we cover.’

In a coffee-table book, Associated Press correspondents and photographers describe what they and their colleagues did to be first with the news.

In exploring why journalism matters, it is not enough to look at what works well; examine, too, why sometimes it fails.

‘I have faith that new models of journalism are going to fly out of this whirlpool of change and be successful.’

‘I began to understand why some mistrust the news media.…’

In two books by photojournalists, words and images explore various dimensions of the experience of being a witness to war.

A photographer, worried about digital manipulation of images, suggests a way to protect the veracity of what the camera captures.

‘Productivity, a central and venerable tenet of corporate culture, began to occupy the world of news in a way it previously had not.’

‘In a marketplace where content and quality once drove consumer decisions, the newspaper now competes visually in a design-savvy, 24-hour free-information age.’