What is wrong with the Sun-Times making this decision if it is shown that having a staff trained in 'iPhone photography basics' allows the ST to cut costs without hurting revenue? An iconic photo (e.g. Tank Man photo [1]) opportunity is a black swan event, after all.
What about firing all the editors and teaching the writers to do that themselves?
Get rid of all the janitorial staff and mandate everyone spend more time cleaning up.
And the janitorial staff? You might be surprised to know how many of the actual journalistic sites you read don't even have offices, or at least not ones with desks for writers. Most of these people work at home.
The photo opportunity is, but the ability to exploit the opportunity and get a good photo is not.
Good to see you here again.
(Apologies for off-topic comment).