The inherent non-linearity of the digital allows for more input from others, including the subject and reader as collaborators. The top-down, bedtime-style story is of limited use. A non-linear narrative that allows for increased complexity and depth, and encourages both subject and reader to have greater involvement, will eventually emerge more fully from the digital environment. This, in a sense, is the more profound democratization of media.

Photographs need to demand the viewer's attention, often implicitly, posing questions as to the nature of what is being depicted. Photographs are not there to show us the world, but to show us a version of what may be happening.

The slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes predictable and repetitive."

The photograph that discovers and uncovers the world is harder to simulate than an image that simply illustrates one's ideas about it.

Word, image, and sound all must have primacy in the development of the narrative.

One cannot always summarize massive issues by looking at the life of one person or one family, or even one community.

I hope that many visual journalists will be hired or funded along the way as well - we urgently need their perspectives.