Print media continue to suffer. On the business end, McGraw-Hill is trying to sell the venerable Business Week magazine. Forbes had a number of layoffs earlier in the year, and Fortune's ad pages are way down. According to Publishers Information Bureau, all magazine advertising revenue was down more than 21% for the first half of 2009. For someone like me who used to earn a good chunk of his income from business and trade magazine photo assignments, it's been a time of wrenching shifts away from editorial and toward other income streams. But most of those streams are pretty dry right now too. Corporations, agencies and organizations do not want to spend money. Rats.
Here in Ann Arbor July 23 will mean the end of the road for the The Ann Arbor News after 174 years in operation. Still hard for me to adjust to that. I'm certainly showing my age when I feel this void not having a newspaper land on my porch each afternoon.
I am looking forward to teaching a portrait class at Washtenaw Community College in the fall. It'll be a good chance to forget business woes for a little while and focus on the photography. I'm looking forward to being around young, enthusiastic people. I just wish I had more hopeful news for them about the future of the photo business. Then again, maybe they can help point the way for me to new, emerging trends.
Here in Ann Arbor July 23 will mean the end of the road for the The Ann Arbor News after 174 years in operation. Still hard for me to adjust to that. I'm certainly showing my age when I feel this void not having a newspaper land on my porch each afternoon.
I am looking forward to teaching a portrait class at Washtenaw Community College in the fall. It'll be a good chance to forget business woes for a little while and focus on the photography. I'm looking forward to being around young, enthusiastic people. I just wish I had more hopeful news for them about the future of the photo business. Then again, maybe they can help point the way for me to new, emerging trends.
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