Why newspapers are closing the shutters on staff photographers
National papers have gradually been reducing numbers in recent years. Many titles have only a handful.
The Independent’s last staff photographer, the award-winning sports snapper David Ashdown, departed at the end of December.
Foster is a liar. He has eliminated one stream of content requiring a budget (paying a photographer for his work)for one that doesn’t require a budget (doesn’t pay anyone since people are willing to give it away for free). Citizen provided content is not journalism. Unless they are rewriting the definition of journalism in Webster’s. What a shame.