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The death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili, just hours before the 2010 Winter Olympics launched, sparked questions about sports safety—and a debate over TV footage choices. As Connie Monk reports, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council is ready to weigh in.
Do women on a rooftop in downtown Toronto have a reasonable expectation of privacy? What if they’re in their underwear? The question: where's the wall between private time and public space? Angela Hickman reports on Torontoist’s decision to publish -- and then unpublish -- photos of unsuspecting, nearly-naked strip club employees. Visual Journalism
Straddling the line between journalism and art, "visual journalism" uses tools like photography, video, illustration and multimedia to deliver the story through images, as told by visually literate journalists. In this J-Topic we follow news and trends on the visual communication side of journalism.
The evolution of images in the news business is the story of technology. Yet, from wood cut blocks in the early Illustrated News to modern digital photography and video moved around the globe within seconds of being captured, The image is still about creating visual impact by putting the viewer on the scene...and that doesn't change.
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