Monday, October 22, 2012

Barbie Zelizer


Author Barbie Zelizer talks to a classroom full of undergraduate journalism students Monday, October 22, 2012 in the IU School of Journalism.
Nicholas Demille for SOJ.



Zelizer is a Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, at the University of Pennsylvania. Nicholas Demille for SOJ.
Zelizer talked to students about the history of news images, and about the necessity for images to be accompanied by captions that explain,
not only the details of the image, but also the circumstances under which the photographer took them. Nicholas Demille for SOJ.

Zelizer has written numerous books including About to Die: How News Images Move the Public, and
Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory Through the Camera's Eye. Nicholas Demille for SOJ.