Thanks to the advancements made in the smartphone’s camera using which normal people are capturing images similar to full time and professional photojournalists. With features that they have in the iPhone, users are quickly sharing the images onto wide range of social networks to popularize them in a less time. With the imaging technology embedded within cameras, the jobs of photojournalists are becoming extinct and to your surprise, the popular CNN has laid off 12 full time photojournalists from its workforce in mid November 2011.
With amplified popularity of online photo sharing and availability of high resolution mobile cameras, in next few years the citizen journalism will surely put back the traditional and professional photojournalism.
