Maggie Steber is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who has worked in 64 different countries, covering guerilla warfare in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) and the fall of Duvalier dictatorship in Haiti. She does her work on a freelance basis and is often as worried about paying her bills as she is about flying shrapnel. “You have to keep an eye on the time so that you can make deadlines,” she told Hyperallergic. “And you have to dodge bullets, and you have to make sure that you’re safe.”
According to the Pew Research Center, the number of full-time journalists employed in a newsroom has declined by 26% between 2008 and 2020. Newsrooms have instead become more reliant on freelance photographers, even when they need coverage of wars or other dangerous conflicts.
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