Word is circulating through journalism circles this morning that the Chicago Sun-Times has just laid off its entire photojournalist staff — about 30 people.
Here are some links: National Public Radio, Chicago Tribune, USA Today.
A fellow journalism educator at another university said he wasn’t surprised and that last year he had begun requiring his reporting students to learn how to use a camera.
Last year?
We’ve been doing that for about six years at the University of Tennessee.
Check out some of the photojournalism resources on JPROF.
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