Being a newspaper stringer can be a fun and lucrative career, but as with all careers there are some occupational hazards challenges also.
Here are some eye openers about news stringing you may not have thought about:
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Ok, so you want to start selling your news photos for money right? Well there are a few basic things that are needed to get you on your way to becoming a stringer. The first one is obviously a camera followed by a computer preferably a laptop, and last but not least is a police [...]

Photography is America’s number one hobby with camera manufacturer Canon announcing they have shipped their 100 millionth (since 1996) compact digital cameras in August of 2008, following Sony which hit that mark a few months earlier.  With tough economic times hitting the newspaper business, publishers are turning to those hundreds of millions of photographers to [...]

It is no secret in today’s economic climate newspapers are tight on money, but at the same time they still need the best news images to stay competitive with the other publications in their market. That is where a Stringer is valuable and most will buy breaking news images every day especially if it is [...]

Making you first sale is just as or even more exciting than getting your first assignment.. after all you do want to make money! But getting paid can sometimes be not so easy. Most newspapers are good about sending payments on time but others are terrible, it is even worse with magazines and television stations. [...]

Accepting your first assignment from a publication is exciting but before you walk out the door and head to the assignment location there are things you must confirm first. The number one thing is payment and price! When I first started out taking assignments (at the age of 18) I would jump on any assignment, [...]

First contact you should make is your local largest newspaper; some cities have two large newspapers from competing companies which is a best case scenario for you. It is good for two newspapers to be competing for the same images as this can help you negotiate higher rates when you capture major news events. There [...]