With the news that the Chicago Sun-Times has fired it's entire photo staff it raises some questions. How could management be so antithetical to their stated goal of reaching their audience in it's visual media of choice - the web? By firing the professional visual experts in their own organization it makes one wonder what they were thinking? A quick search found a Pulitzer prize winner among the 28 photographers fired.
It's doubtful that Chicagoans will voice their displeasure with the unavoidable lowering of visual media standards at the Sun-Times which must occur. In Chicago there is no media monopoly. In New Orleans the citizens didn't quietly accept the gutting of their over 170 year old media institution, The Times Picayune. Covered by the New York Times just two weeks ago. Article Here However, here we are again, witnessing the gutting of another media voice by management seemingly bent on destroying their own corporation. Is this the Chicago Sun-Times exit strategy?
In a "2011 Pulitzer Prize Winners" series of articles from the Sun-Times.
http://www.suntimes.com/pulitzer
Isn't this the very kind of multimedia that management claims they want?
http://www.suntimes.com/pulitzer/4903706-582/photo-essay-go-behind-the-scenes-with-area-5-detectives.html
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