Journalism

• ST. JOHN'S, NL, March 12, 2024 /CNW/ - Unifor is deeply concerned after learning creditor protection Atlantic newspaper owner SaltWire Network Inc. filed for creditor protection yesterday.
• "This one cuts close to home as I got my start in journalism many years ago at the St. John's Telegram.
• Unifor represents more than 10,000 media workers, including journalists in the broadcast and print news industry.
• Unifor is Canada's largest union in the private sector, representing 315,000 workers in every major area of the economy.

• TORONTO, March 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Thomson Reuters (TSX/NYSE: TRI) will host its 2024 Investor Day in New York today beginning at 8:00 am EDT.
• Today's Investor Day materials include forward-looking information for Thomson Reuters.
• This forward-looking information and all the Investor Day presentation materials can be found in the " Investor Relations " section of the Thomson Reuters website.
• A replay of the Investor Day webcast will be posted to the Thomson Reuters website later today.

• AUSTIN, Texas, March 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Chip Giller and Wendy Schmidt announced today the launch of Agog: The Immersive Media Institute—a groundbreaking initiative at the intersection of technology, communications, and social impact.
• Research: The institute will partner with researchers to explore the applications of XR in fostering empathy and driving positive behavioral change.
• Education and outreach: Through workshops, technical support, training programs, and other outreach initiatives, the institute will empower people to use XR for social good.
• Advocacy and policy: The institute will engage in efforts to promote responsible and ethical use of immersive media technologies.

• Experts have warned of a coming “infocalypse”, and of the consequences for this year’s bumper crop of elections.
• Yet the biggest story about photographic manipulation so far in 2024 is that the Princess of Wales manually edited a family portrait.
• The response to this controversy can help us think about the wider challenge of manipulated images and video.

A royal history of faked photographs

• Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were early enthusiasts, first sitting for photographs in the 1840s.
• During this time, composite images – which combine multiple exposures into one image – were widespread, owing to the limitations of photographic technology.
• Some of these composite photographs, such as Henry Peach Robinson’s image Fading Away, were controversial, because of both their subject matter and technique.

• Before it became possible to directly print photographs in newspapers in 1880, there was a widespread practice of copying photographs into drawings, embellishing them by adding colour and improving the composition.
• When half-tone printing was introduced, journalists continued to tweak their photographs, with one editor of a photography magazine in 1898 boldly stating that “everybody fakes”.

Solving a social problem

• Outside of journalistic contexts, we don’t have strong social norms against adding colour to photographs.
• The problem here isn’t that photo editing software fundamentally undermines our trust in photographs.
• But the fact that we have those standards, and press organisations were able to respond accordingly, shows we have the tools to manage this problem.
• But this is a social, not just a technological, problem.

Joshua Habgood-Coote has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 818633).