Those budgets are now history. Yes, the magazines still spend a lot of money covering various world events, and the political year alone will cost a newsmagazine somewhere in the neighborhood of a quarter of a million dollars to get their still coverage. But, these costs come at the expense of enterprise journalism. The fact is, the traditional ways of covering world events have now outstripped the budgets of both print and television. The answer is that we have to become creative, and offer solutions to both still and television.
Photojournalism remains the most effective medium for covering major stories.
It is a matter of basic economics. This is a no-brainer. The photojournalist must be ready to provide the coverage. This means learning a whole new language. Many will not make this transition.