Newspapers and print magazines are doing it tough with discussions about the end of newspapers frequently revolving around whether newspapers can be sustained and the potential and possibilities of new media forms. What then happens to visual narrative?

In The End of Newspapers: Reality and Information at the Foto8 blog it is observed:

Over the last fifteen years or so we have witnessed the emergence of new kinds of visual story-telling. Digital photography gave us instantaneous feedback; camera phones gave us ubiquitous photography; picture-sharing sites gave us a developing social milieu in which these instant and ubiquitous pictures could be shared. None of these factors were specifically reasons that contributed to the transformations of the print news industries, but they are part of a larger technological shift that – if not the cause of the end of newspapers- establishes the setting where mass visual communication will find its new parameters, take shape, evolve, and resolve, and, inevitably, continue to transform.

In online video: first person address has specific implications in terms of validity; short videos as posted online make their case in ways very different than documentaries have traditionally. There is more documentary feature production than ever before. Still images are organized as slideshows, browse-and-enlarge albums, or in an irregular temporal flow. How does the short form slideshow speak differently than a flat magazine spread?