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online journalism as photojournalism
Poynter’s online-news list has been debating the future of online-news industry for a while. But it was a recent posting by Clyde Bentley of the Missouri School of Journalism that crystallized an internal debate I’ve been having for a while.
He thinks “the online journalism world is transitioning into something akin to photojournalism.” Online journalists, he wrote, may not tell “the original story, but we help the reader find the whole story” by adding links and illustrations, as well as by creating interactive additions to the pieces.
The work may not be what “Way New Journalism” imagined, but it is journalism. After all helping people “find the whole story” is what it’s supposed to be about.
Coincidentally, J.D. Lasica pointed to an interesting, if academic, piece categorizing the 5 Elements of Digital Storytelling which most online journalism is drifting away from these days.