In the past these where the only intermediaries between the public and the world at large and information about the most trivial event or most exotic place was devoured. Today we travel around the world in installments and TV from space is an everyday event. As a result, television has been slowly eroding the power, electiveness and contents of newspapers and magazines which have had to adapt to these facts changing its goals and styles.
Photojournalism has to compete with TV as well, in content and technology.
It is an intense competition but at the same time a liberating one. When photography appeared, painting could finally throw away the ballast of being the sole medium capable of reproducing reality which allowed for a revolution in language unsuspected until then. Today's papers carry yesterday's events which we have probably already seen on the evening news. The reader is therefore more interested in the different ways the information is presented to him rather than in the news themselves. In the text as well as in the pictures what matters most is analysis and point of view.