"Can anyone predict the future of photojournalism?
The death of the field has been announced numerous times. With the advent of television in the early 1950s. Robert Capa, the famous war photographer and founding member of Magnum (pages 10 and 359-360), stated that photojournalism was finished. He was wrong...
Some event say that with expansion of the World Wide Web, streaming video will supplant the need for still photojournalism. So far the prophecies have not materialized.
More than fifty years after Capa's prediction of its death, photojournalism is alive and well...In fact the WWW has resulted in an explosion of easliy available information. The mariage of still images and words remains the most efficient way to report a news.
Today's photojournalist no longer need a printing press to circulate their work. They can use the Web to distribute every picture and story they produce..."
by : Kenneth Kobre, 2004, Photojournalism-The Professional's Approach, Focal Press, UK
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