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

Photojournalism has become a hybrid enterprise of amateurs and professionals, along with surveillance cameras, Google Street Views, and other sources. What is underrepresented are those "metaphotographers" who can make sense of the billions of images being made and can provide context and authenticate them. We need curators to filter this overabundance more than we need new legions of photographers.

There are very few instances where writers have also been effective image makers - different skill sets are required.

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.

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

I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a societal and historical referent needed to be both safeguarded and illuminated....now photojournalism is devolving into yet another medium perceived as intending to shock, titillate, sell, distort.