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Sun-Times reporters begin mandatory training today on "iPhone photography basics" following elimination of the paper's entire photography staff. "In the coming days and weeks, we'll be working with all editorial employees to train and outfit you as much as possible to produce the content we need," managing editor Craig Newman tells staffers in a memo.
If you can even call the rubbish put out these days as "journalism."
I just want the facts, let me form my own opinion.
Way to completely ignore the story about PHOTOGRAPHERS. But "facts" vary according to who is telling the story so you won't get the unvarnished "truth" from ANYONE.
Chicago Tribune photojournalist Alex Garcia criticized the move, calling it "idiotic" because reporters are not prepared to create both visual and written content.
Well, if I may, the above statement from the link is an insult to reporters. Plenty of reporters the world over take photos, and take good ones. I worked with a guy who took some pretty stunning pictures with an old box camera; our newspaper won annual awards for photography, and there wasn't a dedicated photojournalist among us.
But iPhones? Yeesh. If I have to take pictures, too, I want a real camera with a decent telephoto lens.
Well, if I may, the above statement from the link is an insult to reporters. Plenty of reporters the world over take photos, and take good ones.
Plenty of cooks, and bottle washers take good pictures but the fact is either you go to a story to report a story or you go to document the story photographically. If the idea is the report stories with iPhones the individuals being insulted are photojournalist because it assumes that they can't ask the write questions for a subject to speak before a camera that, according to the story, is in the form of a video capture.
Either way this is just another example of journalism's self-destruction.
I can see that this may happen in a smaller market, but Chicago though?
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