In a guest post today that's the top story on the sports-photography site Sports Shooter, Kansas City Star Chiefs lenser David Eulitt explains why the layoffs-beleaguered daily really, really needs him:
In fact, due to the advertising downturn andEulitt makes a solid case for himself and for his shutter-snapping brethren, at least if you still clip newsprint photos for a scrapbook. Even in an era of total-NFL satellite packages and DVRs, a keen-eyed football photographer is bound to capture definitive instants, during and between plays, that belong in the published record.the Chiefs 2-14 season last year, our paper reluctantly decided to skip sending
me on the road to the final two road games of the 2008 season, marking the first
time in over 20 years the Star had not covered a Chiefs road game. Combining the
often blowout, non-competitive games with the reality of needing to save as many
jobs in our department as possible made that an easy decision. (I'm back on the
road with the Chiefs this season.)
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So how does our paper find content that makesus stand out from the pack? We have two excellent beat reporters and a
photographer there with the team, at practices and games, both home and away. We
spend money to stay at the training camp in Wisconsin for nearly three weeks.
Even being thrifty, it's still a big chunk out of our photo department's budget
for me to be there. Why do it?
The NFL doesn't credential bloggers andaccess means content. Content means people come to our paper and website for
their Chiefs news. The days of getting news from a handful of sources has
vanished. WE are competing now, and that's a positive thing.
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