| Q. What is photojournalism? (as oppose to other journalism) 2:16 A. journalistic stories throguh visual photograph 2:36 photojournalism is going to communicate events and issues and information through pictures. Written journalism generally communicating with readers on more intellectual level. Whereas photojournalism connects with the audience much more emotional level. 4:25 I used to work for CNN, I found that very often, audience remembers visuals much more then they wud remember what I said in the story. 5:00 if I want people to remember it, imprint an issue or concept into the conciousness of my audience, unless I have good images to communicate , people wud not remember what I have to say. 5:58 they always say picture is worth thousands of words, but thats lie. Images become iconic images of certain events. people think of particular events they often think of particular images that they seen in relation to those events. Q. can images tell a story? A. photographs tell a lot of stories. but they have a caption. #2:05 Q. China, Japan and US, any big difference in photojournalism? A. Nature of the media is very diffrent in all these places. Chinese media, they have a lot of restrictions. Often detained. #7:10 My impression is that, in Japan its more an issue of the media company themselves. in US, there has been commercial pressure on American media organization in the past dacade. #3rd file #-- aljazeera example -- Q. why did you left CNN? A. CNN had run more and more commercials over time, CNN became part of this really huge multi-national corporate congromariate which priority do not lie with Journalism. #-- examples and on Global Voices -- Q. Whats the difference between being a journalist in big media like CNN, and what you do currently? A. Im doing whole bunch of things now. I have more control over my schedule and I feel that things that Im working on are pretty much all of them are things that I really care about and things that I find very meaningful. |