About a decade ago, newspapers started laying off all their photographers and handing out iPhones to reporters. It's why the quality of photographs in almost all news stories absolutely sucks. Poor autofocus, huge depth of field, no perspective control because it's a fixed focal length lens and wide one at that...and at least back then, lackluster exposure control - all operated by someone with no experience in photography, much less an actual degree in photojournalism.
