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Chicago Sun Times Swaps iPhone Training For Staff Photographers

Posted by timothy on from the cross-training-nervous-reporters dept.

frdmfghtr notes (via Cult of Mac) that "the reporters of the Chicago Sun-Times are being given training in iPhone photography, to make up for the firing of the photography staff. From the CoM story: 'The move is part of a growing trend towards publications using the iPhone as a replacement for fancy, expensive DSLRs. It's a also a sign of how traditional journalism is being changed by technology like the iPhone and the advent of digital publishing.'"

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  1. must be a joke by csumpi · · Score: 4, Funny

    clues:

    - training in iPhone photography
    - firing of the photography staff
    - iPhone as a replacement for fancy, expensive DSLRs

  2. Re:Accordingly by houghi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Please don let her leave as an editor here at /.

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  3. This will not end well: Siri as a reporter by An+dochasac · · Score: 4, Funny

    AP (Chicago transcript by Siri): President Obama's state of the unit address was... I'd rather not say. But the corndog mafia sentopolis and will in the Mideast. I don't know. Maybe the genius bar guys could answer that. But North Korean leader... I'm not allowed to delete reminders. Look... a puppy!

  4. Re:Grammer perhaps? by amiga3D · · Score: 3, Funny

    No woooosh in space.

  5. Re: Why the iPhone of all thing? by amiga3D · · Score: 5, Funny

    They should have let the reporters go and kept the photographers. The quality of the reporting would probably have stayed about the same.