Mediagazer: A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs (Tanveer Ali/Columbia Journalism Review)

2:35 PM ET, June 6, 2013

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Tanveer Ali / Columbia Journalism Review:

A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs — A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper's headquarters — CHICAGO, IL—Pulitzer Prize winner John H. White doesn't think too much of the iPhone as a replacement for him and 27 other photographers who lost their jobs at the Chicago Sun-Times last week.

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