Lib Trib says no mo photo ... ping!
Posted on 05/30/2013 9:16:40 AM PDT by Borges
The Chicago Sun-Times has laid off its entire photography staff, and plans to use freelance photographers going forward, the newspaper said.
About 20 full-times staffers received the news Thursday morning, according to sources familiar with the situation.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
It’s moving to cell phone photos.
Laying off people? According to the left, a company is supposed to go out of business first.
Must be the sequestration.
Why cannot the reporters take the pictures?
The local paper here has gone to this system and I haven’t noticed any decline in quantity or quality.
Besides, with photoshop they can manufacture pictures they same way they do with news copy. Who needs photogs?
Jobs? Who needs a real job? Jobs are so 20th century ...
Why cannot the reporters take the pictures?”
What reporters? Do you mean those people scanning the internet for articles they can use to fill up their newspaper? Seems like all you need to have in order to publish a newspaper now is someone who knows how to cut and paste.
There is more digging and research done by the people on FR than in any of the newspapers I’ve seen lately.
“Why cannot the reporters take the pictures?”
Union rules?
Dinosaur media watching the first few comets hit
There are some shops where reporters can take the photos but there are some where union rules do prevent them from taking photos.
I’ve had to hold a microphone for a news photographer who came to shoot footage of a book signing and wanted to interview the author but couldn’t because union rules prevented him from holding the microphone, which I did for him.
“Why cannot the reporters take the pictures?”
They are busy receiving emails from the White House containing their stories.
It’s better than working for the Koch’s!
Paging Peter Parker...
The media business model of accusing its readership of being racists is failing, who woulda thought that?
Wall Street Journal is about the only paper doing well anymore.
Lib Trib says no mo photo ... ping!
I suppose next you’re gonna tell me they’ve canceled their next order of 35mm Tri-X.
Tribune Management is getting the paper in shape for the Koch Brothers acquisition.
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