Journalists at work
Journalists at work
IF a photographer on the beat takes photos of his colleagues, usually none of them sees light in his newspaper or TV station.
The photos are archived or discarded, equivalent in pre-internet era to the fate of film negatives on cutting room floor. A few in this multimedia age now turn up in the fotog’s Facebook or Instagram account.
Most of these photos are taken at presscons. Inevitably, the recurring image becomes cliche: the bank of phones and recorders massed in front of the news source.
Even among dull and repetitive pictures of journalists at work, a few stand out as interestingly different. Because they’re doing something unrelated to the job (posing for a group selfie) or the subjects covered are not the usual politicians (pageant beauties or priests in an ordination ritual).
Here are random scenes of journalists being recorded as they go about their job or take a brief break from it. –Pachico A. Seares
News photographers also take shots of themselves and what they do when there’s a break in a coverage or while waiting for an event to happen or the news source to show up. Those photos usually don’t get published by their news outlets unless they’re interesting enough for their audience. Some of those images may turn up on the fotog’s social media
page or wall.
The press conference — here’s one with Cebu City Mayor Mike Rama – usually provides only images of the news source talking. The difference is the sight of so many cell-phones, used not just to record but to beam the proceedings live. (Alan Tangcawan, SunStar Superbalita [Cebu])
Attempts of photographers to get a better shot – this one is a priest’s ordination scene inside Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral – often get some colleague’s attention. One colleague focused on the image of co-workers crouching and kneeling, not the priest, only a part of whom is shown. (Amper Campana, SunStar Cebu)
The women reporters conversing with Mutya ng Pilipinas titleholders occupy as much space as the beauty queens in the picture. Reporters Vanessa Balbuena of The Freeman, Chelzee Salera of SunStar Cebu and Apple Taas of Cebu Daily News seem to be holding their own. (Allan Cuizon, SunStar)
They all need to get to the top: the climbing enthusiast and the photographers – SunStar’s Allan Cuizon and Freeman’s Kristin Joyce Campana. The sportsman has to hurdle the obstacle while the fotogs simply use a ladder. (Allan Tangcawan, SunStar Superbalita)
Arnold Bustamante, president of the PNP-Defense Press Corps, steals the scene from VIP visitor, then PNP chief Ronald “Bato” de la Rosa, if only during the time the DYHP anchorman-reporter led his colleagues to undergo a drug test. (Arni Aclao, SunStar Cebu)
It looks like there’s no divide between journalists and news source as beat reporters and police regional chief Patrocinio Comendador Jr. join a group-selfie moment. SunStar’s Arni Aclao who took the photo is obviously not in it.