ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explains about news photographs and photojournalism. It describes the relationship between general ethics and applied ethics as they are connected to journalism and photojournalism. The book analyzes the central nature that the concept of objectivity has assumed throughout the history of journalism, in order to then consider how it has been applied to photojournalism. It examines an ethics that is capable of responding to the crisis in trust being suffered by the press and exacerbated by the increasingly sophisticated means of digital editing. The book discusses the question of whether the fundamental principles that structure the concept of good news can also be applied to photojournalism. It presents the analysis of a set of documents in which the ethical-moral reflection on journalism and photojournalism is conceptualized, by focusing on the codes of ethics, stylebooks, internal guidelines, and academic books concerning photojournalism.
