Job Skills and News photographers: A study of Andhra Pradesh

2016 
Unlike in various countries Indian print media is still in a commanding position when compared with the electronic media. Though to see is to believe is the practice still there are millions of people prefer reading news paper to watching television for news. This is evident with the increase in circulation and readership of indian newspapers. This trend is observed in various states in the country so also in the state of Andhra Pradesh where news papers have won the patronage of people at large. The state which is well known for vernacular journalism is encouraging English news papers as well. One of the reasons for the growth is printing of many color pages in newspapers when compared to the earlier times. Along with special supplements in the form of lifestyle supplements, pages, page three stories apart from the regular beats such as sports, science which are visually striking regular pages are also appearing in bright colors. With these factors the professional news photography has emerged strong. These have been made possible with appointed of innumerable number of photographers by the news papers recently. Like never before just like regular journalists who report and edit newspapers the photographers are also joining the organizations in large scale as regular employees and have been updating skills on a regular basis. The study of news photographers working in Andhra Pradesh showed that many of them have been joining the job after acquiring training and some of them are getting training later either by the organization or get it on their own.
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