What to Make of Courtroom Art?

Great little article on courtroom artists.

For courtroom artists, the work is sporadic (a celebrity in trouble with the law helps), and it is most lucrative when a number of different news outlets call on a single artist. Bill Robles, a courtroom artist in Los Angeles who has covered the trials of Jackson, Patty Hearst, Rodney King and Timothy McVeigh, noted that he is paid between $500 and $650 per day (the more network affiliates use the story, the more he receives) per client. He covered the U.S. government’s lawsuit against Arizona’s new immigration law for eight different news outlets, which he called “a very good day’s work.”

Via the WSJ.

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