Journalism Iconoclast: News organisations – make more use of photos
May 5th, 2009Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Photography
New organisations have forgotten that people love photos, writes Pat Thornton, so why don’t they publish more?
“Why give a photographer $10,000-20,000 worth of equipment for just a few shots to appear in the newspaper and online?” says Thornton.
Stop thinking about captions, start thinking about tags, he adds.
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