摘要：News media content is becoming increasingly visual. In the digital world, news editors have access to large amounts of visual materials from a multiplicity of sources. In particular, the rapid development of accessible technologies and the possibility of instant sharing of imagery on social media have helped usher in a democratization of photography. If anyone can take a photo, according to an oft-repeated rhetorical question, what is the role of photojournalism in our time? (e.g. Allan 2015, Newton 2009, Ritchin 2013) Does it matter, any longer, who the photographers are or how they work?The idea of putting together a journal issue on photojournalism and editorial processes was inspired by our collaboration on a panel at the NordMedia conference in 2015. The panel proved to be a truly productive and inspiring forum for sharing research and discussing visual journalism. As scholars of visual journalism from three Nordic countries we sensed a kind of urgency, given the fast pace of media changes, and a need to collect more research in a field of rapid and unpredictable growth. Thus, we wanted to put out a call for papers to comprise new research and international perspectives on photojournalism and editorial processes. The result, presented in this special issue of Nordicom Review, is a collection of articles whose authors address the topic through various theoretical and methodological lenses and in different contexts
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