From: Walt
On 6/4/2013 1:21 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
On Jun 4, 2013, at 1:45 PM, Matthew Hunt <[email protected]> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote:
On Jun 4, 2013, at 11:11 AM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote:
Too bad I don't have a subscription to cancel.
Why, might I ask? Does it matter how the paper gets their
photos? Not much resolution is required for reproduction on
newsprint stock.
Not to answer for John, but my concern wouldn't be the camera used,
but the firing of the photojournalists and the loss of their
expertise.
A good point. The jobs of some photographers will go away. I
provide both copy and photos for all of the pubs I work for, but
that's not common. However, it might have to be if newspapers are
to survive. They can't make ends meet on the old model. That's been
proven. Cost cutting is essential, and if a quality product can be
delivered at less cost by combining photographer and journalist
roles -- even at larger pubs -- it's going to happen. The other
choice is no newspaper and no jobs.
BTW, most newspaper staff photographer jobs are already gone. The
vast majority of pubs depend on freelancers at minimal rates when
they have to and use stock photography much of the time. Training
reporters to generate their own photos might actually be an
upgrade.
I'm not so sure it will work out any better than it would have if they'd
just fired all the reporters and trained the photographers to write.
FWIW, I wouldn't have wanted that any more than I wanted to see them
fire all the photographers.
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