On Oct 30, 2010, at 2:33 PM, John Francis wrote: > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:18:22AM -0400, John Sessoms wrote: >> >> As to the idea that photojournalism is dead ... >> >> It's not, it's just gone freelance. Still lots of good photojournalism >> around, just not many photojournalism *jobs* left. >> >> "Video Killed The Radio Star" ... and now the internet's coming for you! > > I saw that coming decades ago. In fact, in my own small way, I contributed; > most of my motorsports photography was done for a small website, for which > my 'payment' was the media pass to the event. While I did make a few small > sales of images from some events (when permitted by the terms of access) it > wasn't enough to cover the film in the pre-digital era. > > Nowadays there isn't even a market for most photojournalism; local media > (newspapers and TV channels) solicit images (and even video) from the > general public, and just about everything ends up on YouTube anyway. >
Journalism is far from dead. I still sell a lot of pics to car magazines. If the subject of a magazine article is unique enough,. The buff book car shoots I take on pay at least a few hundred buck, plus expenses. Long distance or multiple day shoots can pay much more. I occasionally get a freelance assignment to shoot a news event for the Times, although those are few and far between. However, their first string freelancer shooters get a lot of work. Most of my Times assignments are copy. Paul > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
