Here’s What It Looks Like When You Replace Photographers With iPhone-Wielding Reporters

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Here’s What It Looks Like When You Replace Photographers With iPhone-Wielding Reporters

Earlier this year the Chicago Sun-Times made national headlines when it purged its photo staff and replaced them with iPhone-wielding reporters. To try and track what many suspected would be a decline in the paper’s visual coverage, Chicago freelance phot

via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/07/replacing-photographers-with-iphone-wielding-reporters-yields-mixed-results/?viewall=true

“A photo is what’s going to punch you in the gut, it’s what makes you feel something,” Glascock says. “You don’t have someone’s lead stuck on your brain, you have images of the event. A lot of people have been using the Boston bombing as an example. There were a lot of cellphone pictures, but the ones you remember are by the staff photographers.”