Why newspapers are closing the shutters on staff photographers

Why newspapers are closing the shutters on staff photographers

Roy Greenslade: To save costs, more and more publishers now prefer to to buy their pictures from freelancers

via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2012/jan/24/news-photography-theindependent

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.