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A photo editor’s plea: Let’s be solution-based instead of an echo chamber – Poynter

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We’ve got a problem. It’s 2018, but it feels like 1975 in the land of visuals. What’s old is new again: a nearly nonexistence of visual judgment in newsrooms. Who would have thought that the phenomenal benefits of technology would negate the common sense of picture selection? The role of the photo editor has nearly disintegrated in the most newsrooms, including that of Poynter. It’s time to stop and take inventory.