Flickring Out: What Will Become of Photojournalism in an Age of Bytes and Amateurs?
Columbia Journalism Review, July 28, 2008
By Alissa Quart
Photojournalists have been struggling with downsizing, the rise of the amateur, the ubiquity of camera phones, sound-bite-ization, failing magazines (so fewer commissions), and a lack of money in general. Like print journalists, photographers are scrambling not only to make sense of the new world, but to survive in it intact.
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