Malcolm Ross was New Zealand’s first official war correspondent and from 1915 until the end of the First World War he provided copy to the New Zealand press. His journalism has been the subject of recent academic investigation, but Ross had another string to his bow—he was an enthusiastic photographer with the skill to develop his own film ‘in the field’. It might therefore be expected that Ross was the ideal war correspondent, an individual who could not only write the stories, but also potentially illustrate them with photography from the battlefields. Yet by the end of the conflict his body of photographs was largely unpublished and unrecognised. This article looks at Ross’s photography and, in an era when media organisations increasingly require journalists to be multi-media skilled, asks whether the role of the writer and image-taker are still two different and not necessarily complementary skills.

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记者兼摄影师马尔科姆·罗斯：完美的战地记者？

马尔科姆·罗斯是新西兰第一位官方战地记者，从 1915 年到第一次世界大战结束，他向新西兰媒体提供副本。他的新闻业一直是最近学术研究的主题，但罗斯还有另一条线——他是一位热情的摄影师，有能力在“现场”开发自己的电影。因此，可以预期罗斯是理想的战地记者，他不仅可以写故事，还可以用战场上的照片来说明。然而，到冲突结束时，他的大部分照片都没有发表，也没有得到认可。这篇文章着眼于罗斯的摄影，在媒体组织越来越要求记者具备多媒体技能的时代，