Photojournalism and Today’s News: Creating Visual Reality

Photojournalism and Today’s News provides a practical guide for aspiring photojournalists as well as an intelligent look into newsroom culture and its influences on photographic assignments, production, and editing. Written by an award-winning photo editor and director of photography, and based on interviews with more than seventy high-profile journalists, this book appeals to students and young professionals alike. This work: addresses a wide range of practical issues supported by in-depth examples from the field and critical thinking about photography, journalism, and newsroom culture; examines social and cultural issues and how they are communicated through photojournalism; prepares young journalists to respect their visual journalism colleagues by teaching them how to effectively work together; and, highlights the expectations of the newsroom and editors.