So let’s talk about this. We want to acknowledge your anger and your concerns. We’ve worked with you. We’ve seen you have to juggle 12 assignments in a day. We’ve seen your colleagues get laid off. We’ve seen space shrink for displaying your work.
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We understand the concerns about the integrity of journalism and ethics. And we addressed those in this piece as it related to copyright issues. To the degree that we need more conversation about these sites and ways to present visual journalism online, we’d love to explore that.
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But here’s the thing … There is a reality about producing work in the digital space. We’re all having to find a way to impart information on platforms that demand visuals to be noticed.
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If you read the piece and take it for what we intended it to be — a solution to a problem that’s being felt acutely by web and social media editors in the digital age with diminishing resources — it’s just that and no more.
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We’re not advocating illustrating news stories with stolen images at the expense of hard-working photographers.
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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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@Poynter I do not advocate taking down the article. However, I would be happy to work with@thekalish and@NPPA to write a follow up that can help move this conversation forward. In general, please include visual journalists in the conversation when discussing visual journalism.1 reply 6 retweets 34 likes -
Hi all. We hear you. Talked with
@suelmorrow this afternoon, and we're working on publishing a piece that addresses your concerns. Appreciate your outreach.1 reply 3 retweets 4 likes -
You should also talk to Santiago Lyon from Adobe Stock. He ran the a major wore service’s photo operation and now runs the kind of service you suggested using. He’d probably have incredible insight.
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Thanks. We'll do just that.
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And thanks for tolerating the typos.
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