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A07A Photojournalist Journeyman

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A Navy Enlisted Classification: a skill designation sailors hold in addition to their rating.

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Overview

A photojournalist journeyman covers and photographs events of news or documentary interest and communicates with audiences through pictures and words. The photojournalist produces news and feature pictures, picture stories, and multimedia packages while applying writing, layout, design, photography, and limited motion media capture and editing skills.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Core Skills

  • News and feature story writing
  • Publication layout and visual design
  • Integrated picture stories and multimedia packages
  • Limited motion media capture and editing

Civilian Career Paths

Career associations are editorial assessments of the cited evidence, not an official crosswalk unless the evidence explicitly says so. O*NET supplies civilian occupation information, not proof of a military match. Related experience does not confer civilian qualifications. Tasks and tools below describe civilian work, not military training.

Photographers

News and documentary event coverage, advanced photographic techniques, and picture-story production transfer directly to editorial photography.

How to prepare: Build an editorial portfolio showing event coverage, feature photographs, and a complete picture story.

What the civilian work involves
  • Adjust apertures, shutter speeds, and camera focus according to a combination of factors, such as lighting, field depth, subject motion, film type, and film speed.
  • Determine desired images and picture composition, selecting and adjusting subjects, equipment, and lighting to achieve desired effects.
  • Transfer photographs to computers for editing, archiving, and electronic transmission.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Adobe Photoshop

News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists

Military news and feature writing, event coverage, and multimedia storytelling provide a direct foundation for reporting roles.

How to prepare: Develop a civilian local-news sample that combines reporting, a written story, and supporting photographs for an editor to review.

What the civilian work involves
  • Write commentaries, columns, or scripts, using computers.
  • Examine news items of local, national, and international significance to determine topics to address, or obtain assignments from editorial staff members.
  • Receive assignments or evaluate leads or tips to develop story ideas.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Adobe Photoshop

Public Relations Specialists

Producing written and visual content for military public affairs objectives, newspapers, and internet properties transfers to organizational communications.

How to prepare: Create a sample communications package for a civilian organization with a press release, website update, and supporting photographs.

What the civilian work involves
  • Post and update content on the company's Web site and social media outlets.
  • Write press releases or other media communications to promote clients.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Adobe Photoshop

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC A07A

    [1] NEC entry "A07A - Photojournalist Journeyman"; cached text line 1260; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: News and feature story writing, Publication layout and visual design, Integrated picture stories and multimedia packages, Limited motion media capture and editing, Photographers (O*NET 27-4021.00), News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists (O*NET 27-3023.00), Public Relations Specialists (O*NET 27-3031.00)

  2. O*NET: Photographers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Photographers (O*NET 27-4021.00)

  3. O*NET: News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists (O*NET 27-3023.00)

  4. O*NET: Public Relations Specialists

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Public Relations Specialists (O*NET 27-3031.00)

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