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Sign of the times. Further proof that content is more important than the size of the camera. Plus, people's attention spans are far shorter nowadays. We just want to see a pic of something newsworthy. It doesn't have to be museum quality anymore.

Features are the exception.

Ridiculous move. That's what happen when you care only about your bottom line with the meaning of slashing expenses, instead of providing higher quality material, so more people would be interested in your news.

Photojournalism is a unique, difficult and dangerous field of photography.
Waiting for public to send you "ground level" pictures of particular event that you are covering would be mildly speaking shortsighted.
Especially, if CNN is not paying for the submitted material.

not sure why all the negativity--if they can pull it off, more power to them! the devaluation of photojournalism has been caused by the overwhelming supply, not by evil, manipulative demand. photography came late, both as craft and as medium, and depended heavily on technology from day one--it will always remain highly sensitive to technological change. eventually, human-free AI will routinely take better pictures than 95% of the flickr dung creek--you might just as well stop kicking now and enjoy the few years left to us in the capacity of button-squeezing monkeys

CNN only slashed some of their shooters. It would be my guess that some pros with fancy cameras weren't delivering much more than the hobbiest with a DSLR or high end point-and-shoot cameras.

The pros with creative flair and a gift for getting an incredible shot are safe from the cuts. For now.

...and editors' nephews... never forget the nephews!

yay, means i still got a chance?

I expect that with all the camera phones out there that there is more coverage of ad-hoc and unplanned news-worthy events then any number of photo journalists can cover.

ie. it's much better to get a cameraphone coverage of that car accident AS IT HAPPENS, then to wait for the photographer to get there 2 hours after.

CNN has iReport
CP24 has MyBreakingNews

Ways for the public to submit photos and videos as things occur. It's the Twitterverse in full effect.

i wonder if CNN will be firing all of its staff writers too, because the new Microsoft Word is so good. he he

not this year perhaps, but eventually it will. unlike these lazy half-literate bums, ms word 16.0 will also fix the errors in grammar, spelling and punctuation while copying complete articles from reuters et al (all they do, really--i mean copying, not fixing); it will also do it a tad faster, so we don't have to cringe reading on the newsstand what we already read once last night

Don't blame CNN, it's their audience. People don't care about quality, content or even accuracy, so why spend the money to serve the type of audience that doesn't exist? It is a biased news station at best. Unless they are covering a natural disaster, anything they report on has a skewed spin on it.

This must be a trick, no way they had colour film that long ago