Times Change: Inside the New York Times’ Heated Reckoning With Itself

Re:Times Change: Inside the New York Times’ Heated Reckoning... by grecy on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @08:43PM (#25054645)

Yup.

A buddy was a photographer for a very well respected newspaper. In a grand cost-cutting measure the newspaper simply bought all the reporters iPhones and fired all the photographers.

The reporters are now expected to take photos for their own articles "Because iPhones make that really easy".

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Re:Times Change: Inside the New York Times’ Heated Reckoning... by earthboundkid on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @10:19PM (#25055149)

That was the Chicago Sun-Times in 2013. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/01/business/media/chicago-su...

At Tronc, they had an all hands shortly after buying the NY Daily News. A staffer on the call said “we’re ‘New York’s picture paper’ but our equipment is all old. When can we get new cameras?” On the call, the execs said NYDN is losing money, so it will have to get profitable first. Then a few months later, they fired all photographers and social media people.

https://petapixel.com/2018/07/26/ny-daily-news-cuts-all-phot...

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