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The Vanishing Role of the Photo Editor: What This Means for Visual Storytelling
The Vanishing Role of the Photo Editor: What This Means for Visual Storytelling I’ve been watching a significant shift happen in newsrooms across America, and I think it’s worth examining what we’re losing. The photo editor—once a powerful gatekeeper who shaped how cities saw themselves through images—is becoming a rarity in modern journalism. A Seismic Shift in Chicago Recently, a major metropolitan newspaper made headlines by eliminating nearly its entire photography department in a single day.