How does photojournalism differ from journalism?

Answer 1

Photojournalism is defined as: Journalism in which a news story is presented primarily through photographs with supplementary written copy. (From the American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition 2006.) "Supplementary written copy" may be as simple as photo captions in what is called a photo essay, in which a series of photographs are made of a single subject, for example, homelessness.

Photojournalism is important because of the principle of one picture being worth a thousand words. This is not necessarily always true, but humans are visual beings. Often it's far easier, and has far more impact, to show a photograph than try to describe what's happening in a news story. An example is a woman crying over a flag draped casket. She is touching her forehead to the coffin and the pain on her face is palpable. The picture needs no caption to tell the story. You see it and are moved, whether the woman is wife, mother or sister. A loved one has fallen in battle and she is aggrieved. You not only see it, you are also affected by it.

And, it has just taken me 183 words to describe what photojournalism is and why it is important.

Answer 2

Photojournalism uses photographs as the primary storytelling medium, complementing written text in journalism. Photojournalism relies on visual elements to convey information, emotions, and events to the audience. It adds a visual dimension to traditional journalism by capturing moments with images rather than solely relying on written reporting.

Answer 3

Journalism and photojournalism gather and process news and information related to news to present to an audience. Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism that uses images to tell a news story.

Answer 4

Photojournalism is the special form of journalism. The photojournalism is the collecting, editing, and presenting of news for publication or broadcast that created images tell the whole news story. The lots of qualities of photojournalism such as the good Photography have the best effect on the peoples and describe the whole story. The photo journalism has the some qualities such as the photojournalist is must be desired to travel, interest, compassion and he or she must be having the creative ideas.