The Chicago Sun-Times laid off all 28 full-time photography department staffers. Said 1982 Pulitzer-winning photographer John White, who has been on the newspaper for 44 years: “It was as if they pushed a button and deleted a whole culture of photojournalism.”
Reporters, free-lance photographers and
ordinary citizens will provide the paper’s photos.
The banishment of the entire photography
department was announced at the second meeting called by the newspaper’s new
managers.
Chicago-based Wrapports, led by Chicago millionaire Michael Ferro, bought
the Sun-Times and its 40 suburban affiliates in December 2011.
The Sun-Times
outscourced its printing in 2011.
To read two articles on the razing of the photography department, click on http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/215016/john-white-on-sun-times-layoffs-it-was-as-if-they-pushed-a-button-and-deleted-a-whole-culture/ and http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20130530/NEWS06/130539987/chicago-sun-times-cuts-entire-photography-staff
To read two articles on the razing of the photography department, click on http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/215016/john-white-on-sun-times-layoffs-it-was-as-if-they-pushed-a-button-and-deleted-a-whole-culture/ and http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20130530/NEWS06/130539987/chicago-sun-times-cuts-entire-photography-staff
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