The Shape of Days

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Okay, we all know the facts by now. Adnan Hajj, ex-photojournalist for Reuters, manipulated at least some of his photographs before submitting them to the wire service. Hajj has been fired, and all of his photos have been removed from the Reuters archive pending an investigation.

(The “investigation,” in this case, may involve Reuters dumping 920 […]

Wednesday, August 9, 2006, 7:55 am

The Adnan Hajj story is getting bigger

On Sunday night, I talked to the friend who generously provides me with a free T-1 to host this Web site. I told him that for most of the day, the bandwidth through my server had basically been saturating his Internet connection. No big thing, since it was a Sunday, and nobody else was using […]

Sunday, August 6, 2006, 1:20 pm

Adnan Hajj suspended over doctored Beirut photo

Robert Andrews of the Web site Journalism.co.uk is reporting that Reuters photographer Adnan Hajj has been suspended pending an investigation into how a heavily and obviously retouched photograph attributed to him ended up on the London-based news service’s wire.

“Reuters has suspended a photographer until investigations are completed into changes made to a photograph showing smoke […]

Time’s Jamie Poniewozik has a reasonably good editorial today on the Reuters frappe. “Every time a straight-news journalist alters a fact — even something as picayune as the color of a bomb blast or the number of flares fired from a plane — it convinces people that the media must lie about big things as […]

Saturday, August 5, 2006, 4:05 pm

Adnan Hajj isn’t even trying anymore

In which the author gets a Lebanese freelancer fired.


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