Welcome to the March 2002 edition of The Digital Journalist.

This month we are continuing our series "The State Of Photojournalism" with a third part devoted to photojournalism and the Web. With news magazines getting thinner every day, photographers are becoming increasingly desperate to find someone who will display their work. Fortunately, online magazines, newspapers, and broadcast publications are beginning to thrive. It has been a difficult road for many of these publications, but the best have managed to hold on.

In this issue we look at the history of The Digital Journalist, and interview the people we consider the most important leaders in the field. Brian Storm, who heads up the photo side of MSNBC.com, Alan Dorow, the publisher of JournalE.com, Tom Kennedy, the former National Geographic Director of Photography, who now runs "Camera Works" on washingtonpost.com, Travis Fox, a staff photographer for washingtonpost.com, who recently swept the television awards at The White House News Photographers Association competition, emerging with the titles of "Television Photographer of the Year" and "Editor of the Year", and the visionary Pedro Meyer, whose ZoneZero blazed the trail for all photographic magazines on the Web.

Each of the editors we interviewed also contributed articles to this month's issue. We think that it is a definitive assessment of where online photojournalism finds itself in the spring of 2002.

We have two photo features this month. Joseph Sywenkyj, a young photographer from New York, looks at the agony of children in the Ukraine who are suffering from AIDS, and the fallout from Chernobyl.

David Turnley, a regular contributor to The Digital Journalist, who has been getting rave reviews for his film "La Tropical," which takes viewers into a dance hall in Havana, offers a portfolio of stills taken during the shooting of his documentary, along with an interview about the making of the film.

In our editorial we write about the controversy created by Disney's move to replace Nightline with David Letterman, and the issues for broadcast journalism at stake.

Don Luce offers practical guidance to photographers who want to start their own web sites.

Sarah Nakasone, now working at a North Carolina TV station, recounts her experiences working as a young journalist at Nightline in our "Dispatches" section.

Peter Howe writes about the authenticity of two of the great icons of photojournalism - Joe Rosenthal's photograph of Marines raising the Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima, and Robert Capa's photograph taken of a Spanish soldier at the moment he was killed, in "The Truth of the Matter."

Nubar Alexanian writes an open letter of outrage to Frank Rich of The New York Times over the use of a photojournalist's pictures from Beirut as part of an advertising campaign that might endanger her life.

Amy Bowers tells of her visit to "The Peaceable Kingdom." Our Resident Curmudgeon Jim Colburn wonders if it is possible to "deduct your way across Europe.

Bill Pierce is on assignment this month. He will be back in April with his Nuts and Bolts.

Don't Miss:
Tune in March 10 (9 to 11 Eastern Standard Time) when CBS airs a two-hour documentary on the World Trade Center attacks, hosted by Robert DeNiro. The program, which contains exclusive Sept. 11 footage from inside Tower One, is the Zapruder film of the New York attack. Award-winning executive producer Susan Zirkinsky, along with Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter and Digital Journalist contributing editor David Friend assembled the program using the footage shot on 9/11 by filmmakers Gideon and Jules Naudet. It is narrated by firefighter James Hanlon.

ASSIGNMENT SHEET
This month, Assignment Sheet has two journals for your interest.

Freelance writer-photographer Greg Smith hits hard on the subject of tough times facing freelancers in the media. How tough is it? Read about Smith's personal struggle and follow the links he provides to help you - if you need it.

Dick Kraus has reached another personal crossroad. He talks about it and shows you with his photographs.

Enjoy this issue.

Dirck Halstead
Editor and Publisher