I doubt that this is the only newspaper in the world where this is happening, but I somehow have doubts that the readership will be the better for it.
At ten past four in the afternoon, Thursday 23rd October 2008, a seismic shift occurred in the photo department at The Sydney Morning Herald. The remaining members of Team ZimmerTM, the elder statesmen of Herald photography, surrounded by their photographic colleagues and a few senior reporters, were farewelled with modest gifts and mudcake. Farewelled alongside them were two of the best sport shooters the world has seen. The Herald had just lost over a century of experience in one fell swoop.
Why are they leaving? Where are they going?
Fairfax has just culled 550 jobs across Australia and New Zealand. These four, among others from photographic, have taken voluntary redundancy... Jon
http://blogs.smh.com.au/photographers/archives/2008/10/vale_team_zimmertm.html?page=fullpage#comments
It's worth taking a look at the article just to see some of the images that they leave behind.