Introduction: Photojournalism and Editorial Processes

Future directions of professional photographers: A case study of changing hats between journalism and humanitarian photography

“…Consequently, there has been discussion about the de-professionalisation of photojournalism, meaning that photojournalists have struggled to defend their profession as important and different from amateur practice (Ferrucci et al, 2020;Gynnild et al, 2017;Mortensen, 2014;Yaschur, 2012). Photography teacher and theorist Fred Ritchin has even argued that in the current state, photojournalism is a "hybrid enterprise of amateurs and professionals along with surveillance cameras, Google Street Views and other sources", and what are needed, rather than more photographers, are curators to filter and make sense of the abundance of images (as cited in Shore, 2014: 11).…”

Artistic Journalism: Confluence in Forms, Values and Practices

“…Nevertheless Lester (2015, 19) states that contemporary "photojournalists should consider themselves to be on an equal status as word journalists … As reporters, photojournalists must have a strong sense of the journalistic values that guide all reporters." Such selfidentification, however, might be hindered by some parts of the news industry that keep regarding photojournalism with ambiguity (Gynnild et al 2017). On the one hand, many (local) news media include a photography section in their ethical codes.…”

“…Historical and contemporary confluenceas argued in this paperraises the question how the role of arts and artistic work is articulated in journalism theory and practice. While it is true that an absence of aesthetics in journalism studies has been noted (Bird and Dardenne 2009;Coleman 2007;Gynnild et al 2017;Höijer 2004;Zelizer 2009), and both a general lack of as well as a pressing need for creativity has been a trope in the literature (Lynch and Swink 1967;Malmelin and Virta 2016;Deuze 2019), a comprehensive theory on news work as "artistic" seems not to have made it into the mainstream of journalism studies and education. Nash (2016) asked if journalism could be seen as art, but like Cramerotti (2009) he articulates a "journalistic turn" in the art world, rather than operationalising artistic journalism.…”