Monday, December 11th, 2006
The demise of the photojournalist
by Warren
Dan Gillmor, the pioneering journalist who pulled up stakes and moved onto the net before just anyone else, is predicting the end of the photojournalist and videographer as a profession. His argument is that in an age of digital cameras and Youtube, proximity and speed is going to trump experience and skill. Probably true, and I wouldn’t be surprised if blogs replace the foreign correspondent (if they haven’t already). It’s sort of sad to see the quasi-romantic era of the globetrotting reporter come to an end….but on the other hand it was bound to happen eventually.
