Whois & Analysis for nppa.org

Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism (the collecting, editing, and presenting of news material for publication or broadcast) that employs images in order to tell a news story.

It is now usually understood to refer only to still images, but in some cases the term also refers to video used in broadcast journalism.

Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography (e.g., documentary photography, social documentary photography, street photography or celebrity photography) by complying with a rigid ethical framework which demands that the work be both honest and impartial whilst telling the story in strictly journalistic terms.

Photojournalists create pictures that contribute to the news media, and help communities connect with one other.

Photojournalists must be well informed and knowledgeable about events happening right outside their door.

They deliver news in a creative format that is not only informative, but also entertaining.

The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) was founded in 1946.

The organization is based in Durham, North Carolina and is mostly made up of still photographers, television videographers, editors, and students in the journalism field.

The NPPA places emphasis on photojournalism, or journalism that presents a story through the use of photographs or moving pictures.

The NPPA holds annual competitions as well as several quarterly contests, seminars, and workshops designed to stimulate personal growth in its members.

It utilizes a mentor program which offers its members the opportunity to establish a relationship with a veteran NPPA member and learn from them.

The organization also offers a critique service, a job bank, an online discussion board, and various member benefits.

Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree.

The word applies to the occupation (professional or not), the methods of gathering information, and the organizing literary styles.

Journalistic media include: print, television, radio, Internet, and, in the past, newsreels.

A digital camera or digicam is a camera that produces digital images that can be stored in a computer, displayed on a screen and printed.

Most cameras sold today are digital, and digital cameras are incorporated into many devices ranging from PDAs and mobile phones (called camera phones) to vehicles.

The visual arts are art forms such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, photography, video, filmmaking, literature, and architecture.

Many artistic disciplines (performing arts, conceptual art, textile arts) involve aspects of the visual arts as well as arts of other types.

Also included within the visual arts are the applied arts such as industrial design, graphic design, fashion design, interior design and decorative art.