A Sad Shot of Sun-Times Photojournalists Learning They’d Been Laid Off

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A Sad Shot of Sun-Times Photojournalists Learning They'd Been Laid Off

A photojournalist is a photojournalist, even in times when he maybe shouldn't be. Which is why when Chicago Sun-Times photographer Al Podgorski discovered this morning that his entire department was being wiped out, the first thing he did was reach fo

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I am not naïve.
This is not new in the newspaper industry.
However, what was shocking was the wiping out of an entire staff in one fell swoop.
Doubly shocking was that one of those fired was John H. White, perhaps, the greatest newspaper photographer in the history of this great city.