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Helen Caple is Senior Lecturer in Communication and Journalism at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Her research interests centre on press photography, text-image relations and the construction of news values in images. She is also exploring more broadly the role of press photography in contemporary journalism, including in the online environment. This work has resulted in a monograph with Palgrave Macmillan entitled Photojournalism: A Social Semiotic Approach (2013) as well as book
December 30, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Helen Caple
Helen Caple, a social semiotician at the University of New South Wales, and Monika Bednarek, a linguist at the University of Sydney Australia, discuss a novel approach to the study of news values across both words and images, one that they...
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December 27, 2013 •
Photography and Video •
by Helen Caple
Having just spent a semester at the Reuters Institute, Oxford, thinking about the journalism profession, three ideas have dominated my thoughts: Could online picture galleries save the press photographer? Why did I write a book...
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