The German tech magazine c’t will start a challenge. You give them a set of news images of events with a short story explaining what is shown. Not all of your images have to be faked.
They’ll try to find the fakes and give prices for the best ones. Details are not fixed yet.
The article is in German, but I think we will find enough help with translations when this starts. Perhaps an international approach…. ![]()
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Fotowettbewerb-Geschickt-gefaelscht-ist-halb-gewonnen–/meldung/120436

Maybe this helps a bit: http://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Fnewsticker%2FFotowettbewerb-Geschickt-gefaelscht-ist-halb-gewonnen–%2Fmeldung%2F120436&sl=de&tl=en&history_state0=
It’s the Google translation of this article.
I’m getting a 404 error page on Rolf’s URL and on the translated Google URL (I was going to try it myself)
as at: 2008-12-16 18:05 EST
ooops … links work when clicked “here”. Must be some problem with how its getting represented by my RSS feed in Thunderbird. Sorry for the false alarm.
Alternatively the Babel Fish translation