Opinion

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.’

‘… we need to find a way to be both passionate about a subject and dispassionate about its effects and influences on our own country.’

‘Evelyn Waugh’s book can’t be read without thinking of today’s wars and how reporters cover them.’

A book revisits the time when only a few brave voices in the Southern press stood up against the many ‘that supported and often led massive resistance to change.’