Study finds news photography quality drops when non-professionals are used

In 2013, the Times Herald-Record in Middletown, NY, laid off its entire photo staff, electing to replace them with a mixture of professional wire service photos and images taken by non-professionals. This business decision remains in effect years later, and a new study warns the publication's news imagery has suffered as a result. The study, which was recently published in the journal Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, looked at 488 images taken by professionals and 409 images taken by n...