NEAL CONAN: “And let’s bring another voice into the conversation. Kenneth Irby joins us. He’s the former photo editor at Newsday. He now leads the Visual Journalism Group at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies and serves as its director of diversity. He’s with us from the Poynter Studio in St. Petersburg in Florida. Nice to have you on TALK OF THE NATION today. …
NEAL CONAN: And Ken well, thanks. And can we tell the story of what’s happening in Haiti without – hundreds of thousands killed and injured. Do you have to show bodies and blood?
Mr. IRBY: I think absolutely. I think you have to show the true, authentic realities that are happening in Haiti and foreign lands when disaster and trauma presents itself.
We’ve known throughout history that we’ve told those stories through oral traditions, through writing and radio, but photographs have the power to impact people at a visceral level and change the hearts and minds of public opinion and national focus.
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