When the Mrs is back on her feet I may well do so. It's the cost/profit ratio. Once I pay for travel the value for photographs and reports is hugely reduced because everyone with a phone or a DSLR thinks they are a photo journalist and half the muppets give stuff away for free. I used to be able to cover a local show, get paid by the promoter and then sell to several papers and the boxers/managers etc. Now all the local press is owned by National Groups (Trinity Mirror etc) and they have cut everything to the bone and focused online. So they will say we have no budget for boxing, no budget for pictures etc. The last show I did I sold the report online to various places and some stuff to management and promoters but the locals (4 papers) got the report and pictures for nothing. ( I will not do that for anything but Boxing).
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