Photo Business News & Forum and Gannett Blog have reported the Gannett/US Presswire deal, but it hasn’t officially been announced — until now. Gannett corporate communications vice president Robin Pence confirmed the acquisition to me. “We did acquire US Presswire and it will reside in our sports group,” she says in an email. “We did not issue a release.”
Gannett Blog’s Jim Hopkins notes that US Presswire contracts with scores of freelance sports photographers, many of whom work on spec, with no promise of getting paid, and “that allows it to sell images at bargain-basement prices. Gannett has been turning to more low-cost content syndicates over the past year.”
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