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  • AP Severs Ties With Photographer Who Altered Work

    01/22/2014 6:15:47 PM PST · by kristinn · 22 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | Wednesday, January 22, 2014
    NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press has severed ties with a freelance photographer who it says violated its ethical standards by altering a photo he took while covering the war in Syria in 2013. The news service said Wednesday that Narciso Contreras recently told its editors that he manipulated a digital picture of a Syrian rebel fighter taken last September, using software to remove a colleague's video camera from the lower left corner of the frame. That led AP to review all of the nearly 500 photos Contreras has filed since he began working for the news service in...
  • U.S. holds AP photographer in Iraq 5 mos (AP points out without trial)

    09/17/2006 7:50:54 AM PDT · by AZRepublican · 35 replies · 908+ views
    Yahoo ^ | 9/17/06 | ROBERT TANNER
    The U.S. military in Iraq has imprisoned an Associated Press photographer for five months, accusing him of being a security threat but never filing charges or permitting a public hearing. Military officials said Bilal Hussein, an Iraqi citizen, was being held for "imperative reasons of security" under United Nations resolutions. AP executives said the news cooperative's review of Hussein's work did not find anything to indicate inappropriate contact with insurgents, and any evidence against him should be brought to the Iraqi criminal justice system. Hussein, 35, is a native of Fallujah who began work for the AP in September 2004....