Opinion

‘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.’

In reporting a story about public officials' misuse of government funds, police injure an investigative journalist in a ‘particularly violent encounter.’

On an April morning in 2005, WJLA-TV investigative reporter Andrea McCarren set out with a photographer to do some preliminary reporting about the activities of a Prince George’s (Md.) County…