Visual Journalism and Verification at War

Maria Nilsson is Professor of Journalism in the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her research interests include visual storytelling, newsroom routines, the ethics of witnessing, visual representations of crises, and the history of photography. Her current research focuses on visual verification practices and disinformation and the truth claims of journalism in crisis coverage.Anne Hege Simonsen is Associate Professor and Head of Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. Her research interests include visual journalism, global and international reporting, climate crisis and environment coverage, media and minorities, physical walls and boundaries, and non-fiction writing. She has written, edited, and contributed to several text books in journalism for the Norwegian market.

• List of figuesList of tablesAcknowledgements1. Disrupting the boundaries of photojournalism at warA background to the full‑scale invasionPrevious research on the war in UkrainePhotojournalism at war, witnessing and visual meaning-makingVisual verification, trust and truthOur empirical studyEmpirical focusMethodsChapter outlineFunding and approvalsA note on our collaboration2. Bridges and flows Witnessing, networks and flowsWitnessing outbreak: Time, space and production in the fieldSummary: random and deliberate coverageWitnessing atrocities: the cases of Bucha and BorodyankaWitnessing through tropes and conventions: Commemorating the invasionChapter summary: Witnessing through bridges and flows3. The war next door: The perspectives of editors and photojournalistsBeing thereThe gap between seeing and showingSafety, bias and trustChapter summary: About the coverage of the war next door4. Truth, trust (and everything in between)A hierarchy of trustSkilling up (digital forensics)Chapter summary: Fact-checking as a new genre5. Reflections on the Norwegian and Swedish visual coverage of the war in UkraineReferencesIndex