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sopmaeThrowaway t1_itqftec wrote

Reply to comment by da_london_09 in PittNews Editorial | We support the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette strike by burritoace

I left my job as a photojournalist back in 2008 when the tribune review shut down gateway news. There was nothing else to do. I sure wasted a lot of money on a career that didn’t exist 3 years later.

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da_london_09 t1_itqlfuk wrote

Photo Journalist isn't a career anymore? What?

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DesertedPenguin t1_itqx6zn wrote

As a full-time with benefits career? Not really. Most major news outlets have a select few photographers on staff as full-time employees and then hire freelancers to fill out the rest of the coverage they need.

Small papers in the suburbs and in rural areas don't have any full-time photographers and use only freelancers.

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