Guidance and best practices around videos containing graphic violence. Thanks to all who chimed in with questions on the chat, and special thanks to Michael McCarter, Managing Editor, Standards, Ethics, & Inclusion, Andy Scott, Director, Photo and Video Newsgathering, and Eve Chen, Senior Video Producer for leading today’s discussion.
USA TODAY’s Bob Deutsch gives a detailed overview of a workhorse tool for photo editing.
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How to use Google Image Search, Creative Commons and Unsplash to find rights-free images online.
Google Images: https://images.google.com/
Creative Commons: https://creativecommons.org/
Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/
We’ll give you three photos to fact-check with context shared (for real) on social media about each photo. Your job is to reverse image search each photo to see if the context is accurate or if the photo has been misrepresented. Answers will be at the end of the video. No peeking!
Google Image Search: Check where and when an image was first posted to the web
–https://images.google.com
Tineye.com: Similar to Google Image Search but produces some different results
–https://tineye.com/
Link to the fact-checking exercise: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xWNFQ5SV4xYiBhtAQEr1GCdEk8vxyF5Z?usp=sharing
More fact-checking tools on Journalist’s Toolbox: https://www.journaliststoolbox.org/category/trust-and-verification/
People unknown to you often tweet, email or text you photos from “news events.” But do you know if they are legit? Was the photo from today or five years ago? Was the photo doctored? How can we see when and where a photo was first published? We’ll explore how with Google Image Search, TinEye and FotoForensics.
Google Image Search: Check where and when an image was first posted to the web
–https://images.google.com
Tineye.com: Similar to Google Image Search but produces some different results
–https://tineye.com/
FotoForensics: Breakdown meta-data and detect layering on news photos
–http://fotoforensics.com
More fact-checking tools on Journalist’s Toolbox: https://www.journaliststoolbox.org/category/trust-and-verification/
No room. No time. No Problem. Lighting can make or break a portrait assignment. USA TODAY staff photographer Robert Hanashiro —his friends call him Bert— has made a career out of making hotel rooms, meeting rooms, small rooms, big rooms, living rooms and bathrooms into … studios. Join Bert in an informal and fun discussion about location lighting. He will go over how a small lighting kit can produce portraits with that big light look. Bert will also touch on his setup to shoot both a portrait and video interviews in limited spaces and limited time.
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The media landscape continues to evolve, especially in areas concerning newsgathering through social media. Attorney Michael J. Grygiel focuses his national practice on media law, with an emphasis on defending news and entertainment organizations from newsgathering and publication-related claims, including defamation, copyright infringement and invasion of privacy matters. He will discuss Twitter and Facebook photos, and other areas of concern.
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