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"I think it's the next wave of publishing," said Heather Luplow Hartle, owner and creative director for 7×7 magazine, which devoted its entire August issue to photos found through Flickr, along with essays from citizen journalists. Although some shutterbugs are making six-figure incomes, the low-cost trend has angered some professional photographers who decry the way their craft is being devalued at a time when jobs are disappearing.
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"A petition signed by hundreds of freelance photographers has been handed to the Guardian over its policy to no longer pay repeat fees for pictures it commissions. After staging a protest against the policy on Monday, officials from the National Union of Journalists entered the newspaper’s London offices with the names of 850 objectors."
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"Every time I experiment with this kind of story I hope I understand the process better and get a little closer to a richer, multimedia, social kind of storytelling that I’m convinced opens up very exciting possibilities for journalism. Clearly there’s still a long way to go, not least to get reliable internet access in enough places to make this possible."
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"Google News has quietly added a new section that steps back from the ever-quickening news cycle to highlight “in-depth pieces of lasting value.” It’s called Spotlight, and like the rest of Google News, the stories are selected by an undisclosed algorithm."
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