Talked to former colleagues this past week, day to day photojournalists opting for lighter cameras & lenses over speed/l

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pRICE cUBE wrote:
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There are places that still have photographers and didn't just give the reporters a mirrorless?

Those jobs are going away and some of the time reporters are just using iPhones. This... my BIL gave up his 35 year career as an investigative journalist after they laid off 50% of the staff and told the few remaining actual journalists to use their personal iPhones to take photos.

“Dead Tree Media”, he calls it. He’s mostly doing documentaries, writing for an alt.weekly . He says it’s liberating because he can now write his opinions.