Local stories, local photographs, local democracy
Introduction One of the great community builders used to be your local paper. Sadly, many local papers are under cost pressure and laying off staff and reducing coverage. Last year my local paper made its entire photographic staff redundant. It now relies on reporters with cameras and readers supplying low quality camera phone pictures or, even worse, illustrating a local story with a Google Maps image. Local papers are seldom if ever willing to pay freelance photographers
