Engelgrafik said at 10:23 p.m. on Dec 1, 2006:
hmmm... good question... yes, it should tell some kind of story, and yes that means sometimes it's just street photography. I think street photography is probably a subcategory of photo-journalism in that there are very succinct and direct stories but then there are softer more nebulous stories, of which the latter is street photography which tells the nebulous story of "life on the street".

DVP said at 2:58 p.m. on Dec 3, 2006:
It is a great question Bob, but not everybody seems to have caught on to the ability to create visual stories with Tabblo. Some people will continue to use it as a digital photo album or a place to get ideas for experimentation and that's not necessarily falling under the category photo-journalism.

What makes a Tabblo fall under this category is the subtext that is shown within the photographs. A photoshop challenge wouldn't fall into photo-journalsim, where a carefully formed triptych that shows story progression generally would.

Cruising said at 3:28 p.m. on Dec 3, 2006:
If I am walking around with no "goal or subject in mind", and I shoot shots of the city (like my Chicago Holiday Tabblo), I assume that is Street Photography, but not photojournalism.

I assume the Music for the Holidays Tabblo I have (black and white), could be both. Right? (in fact I should probably add it here) :)

Engelgrafik said at 4:28 p.m. on Dec 3, 2006:
How often does one shoot with absolutely no goal or subject in mind? Maybe that's not the question. Maybe the question is "how are the photos constructed together?" If I walk around Boston, or go on a roadtrip and simply take pictures of the things I see around me, i would say I still have a goal: to take pictures of the things I come across. This, in essence, is Street Photography. However, if I gather all the pictures having to do with oil wells, whether they be pictures of horses and cows hanging around oil wells, or trucks and houses near oil wells, people working around oil wells, children playing near oil wells, then that's going into Photo Journalism territory, if you ask me.

Engelgrafik said at 4:30 p.m. on Dec 3, 2006:
Also, my Salem pictures probably should be considered street photography, but I put them in the Photo Journalism group because they are tied to the concept of "Halloween" and what people do in Salem.

Dcs said at 1:48 p.m. on Dec 9, 2006:
I hate to just throw up a wikipedia link, but the definition here seems adequate.

Photojournalism isn't the same as a tabblo of my Thanksgiving dinner in the same way that a diary entry about that dinner wouldn't be considered "print journalism." The wikipedia article lists these three characteristics that distinguish photojournalism from street photography,etc. :

1. the images have meaning in the context of a published chronological record of events.

2. the situation implied by the images is a fair and accurate representation of the events they depict. (This point is very much debatable -- there really isn't an absolute "objectivity" in photojournalism.)

3. the images combine with other news elements, to inform and give insight to the viewer or reader. (This is the main difference between photojournalism and a typical tabblo. Although one could say that photos alone "inform and give insight", in that case we'd say that the tabblo is a photo essay; not photojournalism. You'd need to have other elements to form a narrative.)

One way to think of it is: photojournalism enhances a pre-existing narrative about an event and provides visual context to the story (primarily told with words, I suppose).