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How many jobs can 1 person do?
Shaun Ward, Photographer
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Perth | Tayside | Scotland | Posted: 4:57 AM on 05.02.11 |
->> Is this the way newspapers are going to save money.
This job seems to involve everything bar talking the owner's dog for a walk.
Certainly a good way to save money which they try to disguise by calling an exciting opportunity and not for the faint-hearted.
http://jobs.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/display_job/48200/Photo-journalist.html |
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Doug Pizac, Photographer
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Sandy | UT | USA | Posted: 9:00 AM on 05.02.11 |
->> The only thing unusual about this job posting is that it is categorized as being for a photographer who can also write. If you go to www.journalismjobs.com and look at the postings there, time after time you will find openings for reporters who can also do stills and video -- not the other way around except on very rare occasion.
With AP -- the U.S. version of your PA -- writers have undergone photo, video and multimedia training the last several years. However, in the over 30 years I was with the company, I never heard of one instance where photographers were given the chance or were recuited to attend AP's better writing seminars that are held for reporters. I know of instances where reporters shot their own stories instead of also assigning a photographer to save costs -- and not just with AP, but with newspapers too. And many times the differences show in the quality of images that are made.
On the flip side, I do have photographer friends at Gannett and other small papers who do their own writing on occasion for story ideas they generate themselves. So times are changing -- especially in these economic times where owners are looking for every opportunity to cut expenses. |
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Michael Granse, Photographer
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Urbana | IL | USA | Posted: 11:42 AM on 05.02.11 |
| ->> They should just buy really good cameras for their writers. If the writers had a really good camera, they would make really good photographs and they are going to be there anyway so why not snap a few pictures? |
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David A. Cantor, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Toledo | OH | USA | Posted: 12:10 PM on 05.02.11 |
| ->> Copy editors have evolved into multi-taskers over the years now routinely selecting stories, editing copy, selecting photos, writing heds, captions and blurbs, designing and creating the page for pre-press and repackaging it for the web. Nothing new here at all. |
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Nic Coury, Photographer
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Monterey | CA | | Posted: 12:39 PM on 05.02.11 |
->> Granted I am the staff photog at a Weekly newspaper and my business cards say photog..., I am part-IT too, part-web manager and a reporter when necessary.
I like having all the skills and keeping them alive. I think (and hope) a multi-platform skill set will be useful in future jobs.
Some days I do wish I could go back to shooting Tri-x with a 35mm f/1.4 and that's all, but oh well... |
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Brett Clark, Photographer
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Matthew Jonas, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Evergreen | CO | USA | Posted: 3:31 PM on 05.02.11 |
->> My position is similar to Nic's. On my business card it says Photo Editor but I am also the primary photographer, the assignment desk, the web content editor, the videographer and I do pre-press for all the non-text content as well. I suppose I should get updated business cards, eh?
I think we are all doing a little more than just making pictures these days. |
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Jim Colburn, Photo Editor, Photographer
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McAllen | TX | USA | Posted: 3:46 PM on 05.02.11 |
| ->> Not to mention the fact that you get to live in Hartlepool, The Jewel Of The Northeast... |
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Butch Miller, Photographer
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Lock Haven | PA | USA | Posted: 5:02 PM on 05.02.11 |
| ->> Folks on staff at smaller publications have always had to wear many hats and do more with less ... nothing new ... it's just the current woes of the journalism profession is starting to trickle up the food chain ... |
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