I see you didn't read,LOL:sorrow:
So according to you the way to fix your "bleeding money" problem is to make your product worse. How often does that work? They made the wrong decision plain and simple. Yes, they have saved money but they will make less money.The final product is not a result of the person having an iPhone. It is a result of the person not being in the right place at the right time. I am not sure why everyone feels the need to harp on this story. It all comes down to economics, plain and simple. Newspapers around North America are bleeding money.
So according to you the way to fix your "bleeding money" problem is to make your product worse. How often does that work? They made the wrong decision plain and simple. Yes, they have saved money but they will make less money.
As far as not being in the right place at the right time, let's see a guy with a camera phone make his way through the swarm of photogs with pro gear and get a good image. I have a feeling the photo isn't wrong place, wrong time so much as all he could get.
You guys need a chill pill if you read the look at the two Chicago paper it show that they made a mistake by letting the PROs go, I had nothing to do with it.
Interesting article. I suspect Chicago-Sun Times will be the poster child for all things non-professional related and for good reason. The notion that a paper can get using iPhones vs. decent DSLR (or SLR) is just plain silly and Jeff Goldblum's line perfectly illustrates the problem. It's like a faltering pizza parlor switching to frozen pizza's instead of making better pizzas. Things will only get worse for them. If the Chicago-Sun Times is failing it's not because readers want less, if anything readers want more. And while the internet is clearly eating into the traditional newspaper market, there is still a market for newspapers and a savvy publisher will find a way to capture that market and I "guarantee" (ala - Justin Wilson) it won't be the papers switching to iPhones.
I second this.Interesting article. I suspect Chicago-Sun Times will be the poster child for all things non-professional related and for good reason. The notion that a paper can get by using iPhones vs. decent DSLR (or SLR) is just plain silly and Jeff Goldblum's line perfectly illustrates the problem. It's like a faltering pizza parlor switching to frozen pizza's instead of making better pizzas. Things will only get worse for them. If the Chicago-Sun Times is failing it's not because readers want less, if anything readers want more. And while the internet is clearly eating into the traditional newspaper market, there is still a market for newspapers and a savvy publisher will find a way to capture that market and I "guarantee" (ala - Justin Wilson) it won't be the papers switching to iPhones.
Just as an experiment I'd like to see the Chicago Sun-Times put one of their currently terminated professional photographers back on the payroll but this time armed with an iPhone as their sole source for photography work for the paper. I think the results would be interesting because I think the *real* issue here is not so much iPhone vs. DSLR so much as having reporters trying to be photographers.Interesting article. I suspect Chicago-Sun Times will be the poster child for all things non-professional related and for good reason. The notion that a paper can get by using iPhones vs. decent DSLR (or SLR) is just plain silly and Jeff Goldblum's line perfectly illustrates the problem. It's like a faltering pizza parlor switching to frozen pizza's instead of making better pizzas. Things will only get worse for them. If the Chicago-Sun Times is failing it's not because readers want less, if anything readers want more. And while the internet is clearly eating into the traditional newspaper market, there is still a market for newspapers and a savvy publisher will find a way to capture that market and I "guarantee" (ala - Justin Wilson) it won't be the papers switching to iPhones.
The problem is not that the paper fired their photographers, it's that they decided to convert their paper as a promotional rag for their website, but instead of saying that when they fired their photographers they allowed that to become the story. Newspapers are dying and will eventually be dead. To me it's not the fact that they fired them, it's about how they fired them, unceremoniously and with the idea that anyone could do their job.