A newspaper without photographers or journalists
February 05th, 2006 
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Manchester Evening News is letting go of 35 editorial jobs.
Among those are 27 journalists (all 6 staff photographers included) which means the paper will rely completely on photo agencies and exploited casual photographers to supply the images. Since they also got rid of a bunch of journalists one can pretty much expect a flood of low quality PR texts that will fill the void.
“We have already had a number of volunteers coming forward since the announcement yesterday.”
And I bet all of them used to be employed by the paper. They simply got rid of them to avoid paying full time wages.
Expect this to become common practice in the next few years…
