I've said this elsewhere online, but want to add it here as well;
I don't pretend to be an authority and I know with absolute certainty that there are other photographers who will be affected in much greater ways than I, however I was contacted directly by Donald Winslow, the editor of the NPPA's News Photographer Magazine late Friday night to weigh in on the news of all Reuters sports images coming from USATSI. A very limited portion of our conversation is quoted in the article.
There's a lot of hate going around for the USATSI (former US PressWire) photographers.
My own opinion, for what it's worth, is that those who chose to shoot for USPressWire which subsequently morphed into USATSI were universally panned not because they're not nice folks or may be good shooters, but rather, irrespective of who they are personally, they chose to work on spec with USPressWire and subsequently took the USATSI contract which made them 'those guys who are helping kill our industry'.
It's not personal, it's business....and as we all know, there are times when business is very personal.