Along with their newsroom colleagues, news photographers
have not been immune to the layoffs affecting the newspaper industry. But a
landmark moment occurred this past May, when the Chicago Sun-Times axed its
entire 28-person photography department.
Another major U.S.
daily, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, announced in October that it would lay
off a significant number of its staff photographers.
Indeed, the annual newsroom census from the American Society
of News Editors indicates that photographers, along with other visual
journalists, represent the category of newsroom staffers hit hardest by the
numerous rounds of job cuts.
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