Rally planned for laid-off Sun-Times photographers

By: Andrew Beaujon

June 4, 2013

The Chicago News Guild will picket the Chicago Sun-Times building Thursday morning, the Guild said in a press release.

The Sun-Times laid off its photo staff last week and announced plans to train reporters in iPhone photography.

The event “will make a statement to the company that people care about quality journalism,” the release reads.

Guild members clad in black (“for mourning,” they explained) attempted Monday to deliver a petition to Timothy Knight, the CEO of Wrapports, LLC, which owns the Sun-Times.

Previously: John White on Sun-Times layoffs: ‘It was as if they pushed a button and deleted a whole culture’ | John White: Photojournalists are ‘lamplighters to the world’ | A talk with Rob Hart, the photographer behind “Laid off from the Sun-Times”

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Tags: Chicago Sun-Times, Layoffs/buyouts/staff cuts, MediaWire, Newspaper Guild

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