Photojournalism Disrupted addresses the unprecedented disruptions in photojournalism over the last decade, with a particular focus on the Australian news media context.
Helen Caple is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Her research interests centre on news photography, text-image relations and discursive news values analysis. She is currently exploring the role of citizen photography in contemporary journalism. Helen has published in the area of photojournalism and social semiotics, including Photojournalism: A Social Semiotic Approach (2013). She is also the co-author (with Monika Bednarek) of two books examining the news media: News Discourse (2012), and The Discourse of News Values (2017).
Chapter One Introduction: A decade of disruption
Chapter Two: Investigating visual sourcing practices: Data and methodology
Chapter Three: Bearing witness to events of national significance
Chapter 4 Everyday photography: Surveying the sourcing of photographs for routine reporting
Chapter Five: The view from the inside: Interviews with industry professionals
Chapter Six Professionals and amateurs: Are we all in this together?