Meet the “Other” Journalist

“It is impossible to imagine a newspaper today without pictures,” veteran journalist and educator Luz Rimban writes in the March 2007 issue of the PJR Reports. And yet, in the world of journalism, news photographers are “often considered second-class citizens.”

“In the world of journalism— Philippine journalism at least— news photographers are often considered second-class citizens. They occupy the bottom rungs of a news organization, if they are there at all. They are also among the least paid, if they receive any regular compensation,” Rimban writes in the main story “The life and (hard) times of the news photographer: The Other Journalist.”

“And yet unlike the reporter who can produce a news article without even leaving his or her desk, the photographer has to brave crowds, heat, rain, and even bullets to be at a news event at exactly the right place and the right time to produce anything worth using for tomorrow’s paper.”

Other stories in the March 2007 issue are:

Monitoring the coverage of the May ’07 elections
Will Media Do a Better Job This Time?
by Venus L. Elumbre and Hector Bryant L. Macale

TV anchors and the news
What You See and What You Get
by Junette B. Galagala

The UN envoy on th political killings:
‘In a State of Denial’
by Rachel E. Khan

Reporters Without Borders on the Philippine press
by More Murders and a New Enemy

The life and death of a crusader
The Ghost of Dong Batul
by Yasmin D. Arquiza

The rewards and heartaches of photojournalism
Life Behind the Lens
by Mike Perez

Buhay ng Photographer
(the original version as submitted by Mike Perez)

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