There should be a bright sharp line between photo "journalism" and all other forms of photography.
The hard truth is that newspapers and news magazines have long been invested in maintaining a false front of objectivity, both in their copy and photos.
Published daily news photos were under the constraits of time, economics, and the available photo and printing technologies of the day. At the first step in the workflow, deciding a photo is worth the effort and expense of making screened plates in time for the next edition a photograph may be cropped to fit the column format and placement. Right there the first editing of image information becomes subjective, beyond the photographers choice of position and composition before snapping the shutter. Cropping alone can change the viewers reaction dramatically of the event and color the processing of the presented word copy. And that has always been the intent of the publisher, to control the emotional shape and content of the final product. Digital tools in image capture and processing have just made it much quicker and cheaper than ever before.
Today it's a matter of caveat emptor, buyer beware.