This one was famous to a large extent because it was photographed by Associated Press. Virtually every newspaper in the United States took Associated Press wire service and so that picture was one that was made available to them. Simply because of the circulation of the papers and the fact that this is one of the major images that was available makes something like this famous. Photojournalism would be because it's reproduced in a publication. That would be one of the definitions of it.
Photojournalism is shot on deadline.
It's designed for use in publications, in print and we're just talking about the print side of it and not the video side of it that can also be photojournalism. Yeah, it's very hard to define photojournalism, I agree with you. Hal Buell, once the director of photography for the Associated Press, spent decades sorting and selecting some of the best newspaper photos in the world. The capture of Nebraska mass murderer, Charles Starkweather. Releasing police dogs on civil rights demonstrators.