On The Digital Age Of News Photography

This article based on the digital era of news photography as the object of study, discuss the problems of news photography in the background of digital era as the main goal. This article talks about the development of digital technology brings lots of advantages and convenience to news photography, but also problems that can't be ignored.This article talk about the main problems now in news photography: First, the universal application of digital and image editing software like photoshop, lots of "fake" photo appears frequently and already shaken the confidence of news photo's authenticity,which has been a historical witness for a long time; Second, due to the popularity of internet, low price of digital camera and camera cellphone, the general public get the previously for news, which only the professional news photographers can have before. These citizen news photographers exit everywhere in the society, they take the picture which happen in their daily life and upload on internet. Lots of newspapers open the column of "Paike", welcome and encouraged citizen news photographers. Meanwhile, the professional news photographers face a huge crisis for survival because of the decline income of traditional media. Third, the increase needs of video, besides internet, with the development of3G services, there are multimedia like phone, MP4, Ipad, in-car computer and so on. Many people think the news photography will die, the video will replace the picture.This article will analysis three problems with different cases and think about it, give the suggestions to solve the problems.The whole text is divided into three chapters:The first chapter, talk about the development of digital news photography.The second chapter, discuss the three main problems of news photography in digital era.The third chapter, discuss about suggestions for news photography.