The five W’s in journalism every student learns on day one are “Who, what, when, where and why”?
Recently the Associated Press, founded in 1846 and winner of 59 Pulitzers, announced that they are buying out U.S. print journalists and either not replacing them or replacing them with video-journalists or “visual reporting” in corporate speak.
I have been a photojournalist in my career and also a writer. My photojournalism was pretty good I would say, but it never broached the subject of why. It was always about Who, What, Where, maybe sometimes How. But rarely Why. I was paid to get the image and to document what it was about. There are exceptions of course to this, but they...
The five W’s in journalism every student learns on day one are “Who, what, when, where and why”?
Recently the Associated Press, founded in 1846 and winner of 59 Pulitzers, announced that they are buying out U.S. print journalists and either not replacing them or replacing them with video-journalists or “visual reporting” in corporate speak.
I have been a photojournalist in my career and also a writer. My photojournalism was pretty good I would say, but it never broached the subject of why. It was always about Who, What, Where, maybe sometimes How. But rarely Why. I was paid to get the image and to document what it was about. There are exceptions of course to this, but they...