A Note To Editors, Publishers And Newspaper Owners

A Note To Editors, Publishers And Newspaper Owners

How To Succeed In The Newspaper IndustryIt’s alarming to see in recent years the closure of photographic departments (e.g. the Chicago Sun Times and countless weekly local papers) and the way great…

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unlike journalists who can work many thousands of miles from a story, rewriting press releases or doing interviews over the phone, the photographer has to be there, in person. This is one of the aspects which makes photography the truest form of journalism; you can’t photograph what you can’t witness. A photograph is the only unaltered truth from a story.