ABSTRACT
On the evening of 11 September 2001 Alan Rusbridger, the Editor of the Guardian, made a decision to clear 15 pages and let the photographs tell the story of one of the biggest tragedies ever to be reported in a national newspaper. The horror of the planes ploughing into the Twin Towers in New York had been witnessed by many on television around the world. Everybody knew what had happened, but nobody knew who was behind it. With so many dead and with so little real information Rusbridger’s judgement was that letting the photographs tell the story would reveal the real power of photojournalism.
