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photographers shoot with digital cameras, transfer their files to laptop
computers to edit, crop and write IPTC captions. Compresed jpg files are
transmitted via a cell phone, a wireless network, or satellite phone using
ftp and the internet. From the scene of the story, photos are quickly
moved to editors in view of deadline concerns. Picture sub-editors determine
destinations and priority of the production, code and file the report
to clients. At major stories, with teams of photographers, editors, and
sub-editors covering the Olympics, the World Cup, or the Cannes film festival,
photos have been shot, edited, captioned, coded and moved to clients worldwide
in minutes. Always on deadline, the international newswire agencies compete
for front page visability, and like horses running at the track, the first
photo across the wire wins. |
