On Layoffs and White Boards

Sad day for the Middletown, New York, community as the Times Herald-Record has laid off its entire photo staff, according to a story by Donald Winslow on the National Press Photographers Association’s web site.

What’s next for visual journalism? Well, if the Chicago Sun-Times is any indication (remember, they let their entire photography staff go earlier this year), the Middletown community can look forward to stunning, in-depth visual coverage of … directions to meetings on white boards.