Chicago Sun-Times Wipes Out Photo Staff

The Chicago Sun-Times and its suburban sister newspapers today laid off its entire photography staff, and the management plans to use freelance photographers instead, the newspaper’s editor said.

via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/chicago-sun-times-wipes-out-photo-staff

“It’s shocking that the remnants of the group that once had photographers like Scott Strazzante and Todd Heisler and Jon Lowenstein and Rob Finch, just to name a few of the Pulitzer-winners and Photographers of the Year that once worked at Copley Chicago, believes it no longer needs any staff photographers,” Sid Hastings, a former Copley Chicago photo editor said tonight from St. Louis. “It’s just shocking.”