Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/11/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Stupid, stupid, stupid. Newspaper editors and publishers must have come from the ranks of American car execs in the eighties. You cannot increase sales by making you product unpalatable, and yet that's what they do. "No one is buying our product anymore, we should make cuts." No one ever cut their way to success. Note again the failure of the New Orleans newspaper and the successful replacement by a special edition of the Baton Rouge paper. Reduce paper to three days a week, out of business. Pay reporters and photogs to cover the town daily, success. -----Original Message----- From: lrzeitlin at aol.com Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 9:06 AM To: lug at leica-users.org Subject: [Leica] Sad tidings for newspaper photographers At Newspapers, Photographers Feel The Brunt of Job Cuts (Pew Research Center / FactTank) Citing "new technologies" and "economic realities," the Times Herald-Record in Middletown, N.Y., laid off its four remaining staff photographers earlier this month, joining the growing ranks of newspapers that are shrinking or eliminating their photography staffs. Along with their newsroom colleagues, news photographers have not been immune to the layoffs affecting the newspaper industry. But a landmark moment occurred this past May, when the Chicago Sun-Times axed its entire 28-person photography department. Another major U.S. daily, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, announced in October that it would lay off a significant number of its staff photographers. Larry Z _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information