A very significant change at the Los Angeles Times, which will certainly be emulated at an increasing number of newspapers, as the Times has created a new integrated Visual Journalism department.

This move comes as part of the LA Times' print and online integration, as well as the physical integration of its Continuous News Desk and AM Copy Desk.

"Today, we are also creating a fully integrated department in editorial that will serve our site and our newspaper, combining our print photo, Web photo and video operations into one new department: Visual Journalism," said LA Times editor Russ Stanton in a memo to staff.

The combination of the video, print photography and Web photography departments will help the paper deliver multimedia packages more efficiently.

Source: LA Times blog