Members of the local workers’ union at Stourbridge Newsquest starting a protest. Journalists of the newspaper stood up in protest not doing what the professional photographers fired from the newspaper were doing: taking pictures.

Orlando Sentinel also fires its photographers. Management of the newspaper puts video in front of photography from now on. Photographers can choose if they want to shoot video or look for a job elsewhere instead.

UK publisher Johnston Press fires all their photogprahers working at their titles in England. Chicago Sun-Times had a sticky example followed by other companies – money talks and quality doesn’t matter. Hold the Front Page wrote this time a UK paper starts to lay off all of its photographers. Just like Hungarian publisher PLT did not so long ago, […]