On 6/4/2013 2:56 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
no one has yet produced a machine that can conduct interviews and generate good
copy.
Have you actually seen a second tier newspaper lately. The day's when a
reporter could spell and actually generate good copy have been over for
years. Even the NYT and WSJ have spelling and grammatical errors in
them that make me cringe. If I notice those errors they're really,
really bad. Train the photographers, hell most papers could train
monkeys to do better.
On 6/4/2013 2:56 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
On Jun 4, 2013, at 2:39 PM, Walt <[email protected]> wrote:
On 6/4/2013 1:21 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
On Jun 4, 2013, at 1:45 PM, Matthew Hunt <[email protected]> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote:
On Jun 4, 2013, at 11:11 AM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote:
Too bad I don't have a subscription to cancel.
Why, might I ask? Does it matter how the paper gets their photos? Not much
resolution is required for reproduction on newsprint stock.
Not to answer for John, but my concern wouldn't be the camera used,
but the firing of the photojournalists and the loss of their
expertise.
A good point. The jobs of some photographers will go away. I provide both copy
and photos for all of the pubs I work for, but that's not common. However, it
might have to be if newspapers are to survive. They can't make ends meet on the
old model. That's been proven. Cost cutting is essential, and if a quality
product can be delivered at less cost by combining photographer and journalist
roles -- even at larger pubs -- it's going to happen. The other choice is no
newspaper and no jobs.
BTW, most newspaper staff photographer jobs are already gone. The vast majority
of pubs depend on freelancers at minimal rates when they have to and use stock
photography much of the time. Training reporters to generate their own photos
might actually be an upgrade.
I'm not so sure it will work out any better than it would have if they'd just
fired all the reporters and trained the photographers to write.
I assume you're being facetious, but as I said, the staff photographers are
already gone for the most part. And while cameras have become capable of
getting most of the technical details of a photograph right, no one has yet
produced a machine that can conduct interviews and generate good copy. That too
may be coming, but, thankfully, it won't be in my lifetime.
Paul
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