Apparently we struck a really raw nerve today in the photojournalism community when we published a piece about free photo sites and tools for newsrooms that are strapped for resources. (Thread)
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From the feedback we’re getting, we know that this message will just scratch the surface of a deeper conversation that probably needs to happen on this topic. But we wanted you to know that we heard you and we’re listening.
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Some of you have advocated taking the article down or issuing a retraction. We don’t feel either is warranted. But let’s keep the dialogue going, because as one of the writers on the piece said:
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“One of Poynter's biggest roles is to serve as a hub for conversation about journalism. I think if we're seeing things one way and they're seeing things another, it's probably only going to help us to host both sides of that conversation.”
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No, you're advocating taking advantage of people that don't know that their work has value. I think you'd be disappointed and disgusted if someone wrote an article at Poynter titled "where to look for free writers who don't know better."
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Don't you see that what you ARE doing is advocating illustrating news stories with free, sometimes dubious, and usually mediocre content from places like Unsplash at the expense of hard-working photographers? You're perpetuating a culture of devaluing the work of visual journos..
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No, but you are advocating for using free photos instead of visual work that results in compensation for creators
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You just devalued an entire class of working journalists.
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Explain how working photographers compete with free, or explain how we can use your work in our work for free and you keep the liability in the process.
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This is a telling sentence, because you are, explicitly, advocating illustrating news stories with stolen images at the expense of hard-working photographers. Where, exactly, do you think these images come from? What do you think is the consequence of your actions?
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But are you not advocating using unassociated images? Devaluing a profession, not to mention the integrity of the photograph as a historical document? Why not advocate running press releases unchanged while you are at it.
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