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Check out Ken Kobre's book: Photojournalism: The Professionals' Approach
It's used as a textbook for many photojournalism classes in college.
http://www.amazon.com/Photojournalism-Professionals-Approach-Kenneth-Kobre/dp/075068593X
Start with the NPPA's Code of Ethics. To be a good photojournalist, you need to be an ethical photojournalist. Do not be Souvid Datta. You will be caught, and you will never find work as a photojournalist again.
Then start looking through the winners of Pictures of the Year International, and World Press Photo (keep to recent years on WPP because they had some issues with ethical lapses in the past). Look at the Pulitzer Prize winners too.
Then start reading. Ken Kobre's book is used often in photojournalism college curriculums and just released a new edition. Read the news, and stay current on world events. Stay current on local news and events, and then look at your local publication's coverage of those events. Which ones do they cover with photos? Which ones don't have photos? How do they cover those? How do they write the story? Who do they talk to? Who are the stakeholders? Who does this effect? What is the angle?
To improve your writing, you must read a lot of good stories of all kinds: breaking news, features, investigative stories. Find writers that you admire, and read everything they write. Find photojournalists whose work you like -- either style-wise or subject matter -- and look at everything they've published.
Then start shooting. Photograph events, portraits, animals, sporting events, breaking news, etc. You have to know how to shoot absolutely everything. Learn how to light a portrait, and how to cover a structure fire (see Kobre's book).
Take your camera everywhere because you never know what you might come across. Make sure you get names and other information for captions (in AP style), even if the photos never get to a publication. You'll need them in a portfolio to show that captions are something you know how to write and gather info for.
When I was in J-School this was a required text:
https://www.amazon.com/Photojournalism-Professionals-Approach-Kenneth-Kobre/dp/075068593X
Along with: https://www.amazon.com/Associated-Press-Guide-Photojournalism-Handbooks/dp/0071363874/ref=pd_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=6NZV54XKAY02PNWDG14H
I would say this was more a collection of press pictures, i.e. the edit you would send to a newspaper, than an essay. I don't usually expect an essay to be from one day/event and as static as this. From one event you would (traditionally) expect to get a photo story and even then you would need more in the way of variation in your pictures.
When you're shooting something like this ignore the idea of making an essay, have a crack at making a photo story. Tell the story of the day, from beginning to end. Have a look at the Life formula for visual variety and see if you can work around to it:
http://genevacarbarnphotostories.blogspot.com/2011/03/life-formula-for-visual-variety-in.html
Also, and I hate to say this because it would be something I would suggest over and over again, go and grab a copy of Ken Kobre's "Photojournalism: The Professionals' Approach". It really is a fantastic book if you're starting out.
http://www.amazon.com/Photojournalism-Professionals-Approach-Kenneth-Kobre/dp/075068593X
For an absolute beginner shooting digital, Ken Kobre's Photojournalism and Bruce Barnbaum's The Art of Photography would be my pick, if only because those were the books I learned from in j-school.
For an intermediate film photographer who needs inspiration or thoughtful meditations on the medium more than they need inspiration, I am always going back to Vivian Maier: Street Photographer, Annie Leibovitz's A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005, and the exhibition book from Francesca Woodman's exhibit at SFMOMA/the Guggenheim. But I have an abiding interest in female photographers, self-portraiture, and the female gaze, so YMMV there.
Hell yah! You won't be disappointed--we used it in both of my photo history courses. It's got a lot of technical information on cameras, as well as cool history. This is also one of my favorite books, it gives amazing advice and has really thought-provoking images, whereas the World History book is more about fine art.
Y U NO LINK KEN KOBRE'S PHOTOJOURNALISM?
stupid meme aside, haven't come across the AP book before. Any good?