By Monica Moses Visual Journalism Faculty Visual journalists swim upstream in the newsroom. Our photos and graphics get cut when stories run long. We hear about big projects too late to do strong visual work. We can't design pages we're comfortable with when copy is chronically late.
Tradition dies hard.
And journalistic tradition rests with writers and editors. Visual journalists rarely become executive editors, so little natural support exists for us at the top. Our training is different. Our equipment is different. Our work is central in the reader's experience of the newspaper, but not always central in the newsroom's mind.