On this episode of Sword and Pen, guest Anthony Vazquez talks about his transition from being a landing support specialist in the marine corps to a visual journalist at the Chicago Sun-Times, a newspaper that canned its entire photo staff for journalists using smartphones in 2013.

If you are a photojournalist, a journalist who takes their own images, a student who wants to be a visualist storyteller, or a military veteran who wants to break into visual journalism, this episode is for you.

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• Talks about how his military experience played a key role in covering one of his first big breaking news stories for the Associated Press in Mexico
• Makes a case for veterans working in the newsroom
• Explains how he went from working at a grocery store to being a member of Report for America to interning at the Sun-Times (and he never left)
• Discusses what's happening at the Sun-Times now, a decade after the photo department was replaced because the management wanted more videos

You can follow Anthony on Instagram  and view his work on his Website

This episode is hosted by Lori King

Sword and Pen is a Military Veterans in Journalism production, and is brought to you monthly by co-hosts Lori King and Drew Lawrence

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