Should Photographers Show Protestors' Faces? It's a Misleading Question.

<p>In the midst of global protests in support of #BlackLivesMatter, the Poynter Institute caused a ruckus within the photojournalism industry last week with the provocatively titled “Photographers are being called on to stop showing protestors’ faces. Should they?”<br/><br/>At least part of the outright dismissal of the article by some photojournalists stemmed from the second sentence which reads “But there’s a growing movement that calls for journalists and citizens to blur or not show protesters’ faces.” In the same week, the encrypted communications app Signal released a feature to blur faces in photos, which served to conflate journalism ethics with social media norms. <br/><br/>In this episode, Sarah Jacobs and Allen Murabayashi discuss:</p><ul><li>Photojournalism ethics and the Poytner article</li><li>Darnella Frazier, the 17-year old who captured the killing of George Floyd on video</li><li>John Edwin Mason&apos;s essay on protest photos</li><li>Controversy at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</li><li>Buzzfeed keeps embedding Instagram posts</li><li>NYMag&apos;s cover of the BLM protests</li></ul>