ABSTRACT

Once, newsrooms divided fairly neatly into "word people" and "picture people," who got along about as well as the Montagues and the Capulets. Word people issued assignments, reported, made news judgments, and determined play. Picture people took photos and laid out pages, generally under the direction of word people. Occasionally, when more exotic illustration was called for, picture people provided locator maps to accompany news of foreign coups or supplied drawings of enlarged fruits for the Thursday food pages.