In July’s issue of The Digital Journalist, Dirck Halstead (Time magazine’s official White House photographer for 29 years) ponders the state of photojournalism, ten years after writing an editorial declaring that photojournalism is dead.
Ten years on, he paints an increasingly bleak picture, noting that “what I was talking about then were some cracks in the dam. Today, the whole damned dam is gone.” With the fate of major newspapers and news magazines more unsure than ever, the question of who is going to actually be able to pay visual journalists to report important news events still remains.
Knowing this, would it be crazy to pursue a career in photojournalism today?
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