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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Phillydog1958" data-source="post: 165316" data-attributes="member: 8704"><p>During my newspaper days, we had a full photography staff. It was made up of approximately 5-7 photojournalist, who were well paid. They also had a department manager, who was also a photojournalist. Some of the larger metro papers had even larger photo departments. They all had a minimum of a bachelor's degree in photojournalism, from an accredited university. I think that if one is concerned about making money and pursuing a career in photography, then consider working as a photojournalist for one of the larger newspaper chains such as Gannet (Publishers of USA Today and multiple other daily newspapers across the nation), McClatchey Newspapers Inc., etc. . . I previously worked in marketing for the now defunct Knight-Ridder Newspapers Inc. They owned over 30 daily newspapers. I'm writing this because I don't want to see some young person who might be considering a career in photography, be discouraged by this thread. There are options . . . The only concern that I have is that I got out of newspapers in the late 90's. That's when the internet was just starting to take a stronghold on our media habits. Times are a changing. Some say that newspapers will be gone in 20 years. If that proves to be true, higher-paying, photojournalists opportunities will be even more limited.</p></blockquote><p></p>