Thesis 4: Team Up!
Read all 7 theses on international photojournalism here.
In a world heavily oversaturated with information, traditional hunter-gatherer journalism has outlived its purpose.
We don’t need so much more information. But we need people who are able to connect the dots in this overwhelming, fractured informational landscape.
The Internet, with its nearly infinite multimedia
possibilities, could offer a great opportunity for this. But without us
questioning our own approaches, ideals and traditions, “multimedia
storytelling” will be just another awkward attempt to ride a dead horse.
“New media” needs a new media landscape, one not only based on traditional journalism.
So let’s think out of the box, team up with programmers, thinkers, activists, social critics, hackers and artists – and make our stories matter again.
Chris Grodotzki is a freelance multimedia journalist and a founding member of the jib collective.
The n-ost Media Conference Translating Worlds
yielded five essays on the challenges foreign correspondents are facing
today, as well as a series of seven photo-theses concerning modern
photojournalistic practice. The complete works are available here: