Remember, this is cooperation on ideas, not just movement. The editor's job will be to coordinate and develop synergy. This can be a vital team, unmatched by any other mass medium, and can be a truly integrated effort of a reporter, a photographer and an editor. The key is sharing before, during and after the story because after it's a story, everything is set. This kind of cooperation is more than journalists just seeking adrenaline highs, confusing adrenaline with news.
Some news is quieter.
It can be fashioned in new ways by this team. An editor, photographer and reporter fashioning a report from its inception will advance the best in each. By cooperating, journalists could fashion the story, and avoid the spin experts. The news staff has lost control. The profit side looks at the popular market and does what marketing does, produce more of whatever is popular and what is easy to produce.