Category: Citizen Journalism
Citizen journalism, also known as public or participatory journalism, is the act of ordinary (non-professional) citizens playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating images, news and information.
News
Getty Images closes citizen journalism photo agency Scoopt
Getty Images (NYSE: GYI) has announced that it is closing Scoopt, a citizen journalism photo agency based in Glasgow, acquired in March 2007. Molly McWhinnie, a Getty Images spokeswoman, explains the decision “We definitely believe there is a demand for this type of material as an editorial product but there are so many other avenues out there right now for citizen photo journalists.” The company has stated plans to keep the website Scoopt.com active until March 6 but the business will stop accepting new content from February 6.
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PicApp now representing paparazzi imagery from Pacific Coast News
Image details: Mya spotted on the beach in Barbados served by picapp.com
Picapp, a service of the Israel based technology company PicScout offering bloggers an ad-supported solution to use celebrity, sports, and news, images free of charge, has announced that it has added paparazzi content from Pacific Coast News(PCN). PCN is one of the more prominent sources for entertainment news and pictures. “We at Pacific Coast News are witnessing a substantial change in the photo industry, with a growing demand for the content by bloggers” Said Paul Harris PCN CEO “I believe that PicApp’s innovative and most scalable application will be able to meet the blogger requirements and therefore provide us with a new distribution channel.”
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Demotix launches user-generated newswire to empower citizen journalists
London based Demotix, who is billing itself as an uncensored, unedited user-generated newswire, has officicially launched its new site at Demotix.com. The platform is intended to empower anybody to upload images or video to be made available to for licensing to media publisher. Content is represented on a non-exclusive basis and images offered at prices varying from $150-$3,000, with video fetching prices of $500-$1,000/minute. All revenue is split 50/50 with the contributor.
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Getty launches JAMD Mobile application showcasing celebrity pics on Apple iPhone
Getty Images has announced that it has taken another step towards serving celebrity images direct to consumers with the release of a new mobile application for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. The new application is an extension of the company’s JAMD.com consumer site and claims to provide a fresh new celebrity image experience “Whether you follow the cast of Gossip Girl or want the latest pics of Coldplay, JAMD Mobile encourages engagement with the images that mean the most to you,” said Bruce Livingstone, iStockphoto founder and current SVP, Consumer Division, Getty Images. “We’re delighted to use the global reach of the Apple App Store to offer our JAMD Mobile application to iPhone and iPod touch users.”
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PicScout signs Splash News to provide free celebrity photos on picapp
Image details: Mya spotted on the beach in Barbados served by picapp.com
PicScout, a technology company best known for helping stock licensing companies monitor distribution of their content, has announced that it has signed a distribution deal with the Splash News and Picture Agency to offer celebrity news images at no cost to bloggers on picapp.com. The company launched the beta version of picapp.com in March 2008 as an ad-supported model where bloggers can embed free images accompanied by an advertisement that generates royalties for the content contributor. The company also offers content from a variety of sources including Getty Images, Corbis, Image Source, and many others.
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Mary Evans launches user generated content site The History Album
Mary Evans Picture Library, a specialty library featuring historical images has taken a leap into the world of user generated content with a new site called The History Album. The site is designed as a place for users to upload and share scanned photographs with the world and order prints. Users can also comment and add essential keywords which will make them searchable.
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Dreamstime opens door for un-released editorial imagery
Dreamstime has expanded its policy to accept non-model released and non-property released images that are directly pertinent to current events, news and political stories, and social and cultural scenes. The micro-stock company has created a new license for editorial use and encourages photographers to shoot current news events for submission to their data-base. Traditionally micro-stock companies have carefully managed their contributors submissions and avoided accepting imagery of recognizable people without model releases.
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RightsAgent launches platform to license, distribute, and monetize, user-generated content
RightsAgent, a new company headquartered in Cambridge, MA, has launched an online platform to allow users to license and monetize content including text, pictures, and videos. The company´s Internet-based free service allows users to consolidate the work they publish across the web into a unified feed, license their work with both Creative Commons and for-profit options, and build reputation based upon the value of the content they create.
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Agence France-Presse invests in citizen journalism venture Scooplive
Agence France-Presse (AFP), one of the first news agencies in the world (created in 1835 by Charles-Louis Havas), has teamed up with IAM (a company founded by Xavier Gouyou Beauchamps and Pascal Josèphe), to become a minority shareholder in Scooplive (which has been renamed Citizenside), a pioneer in citizen reporting. The investment follows the acquisition of Scoopt by Getty images in March 2007 and further signals a change in traditional media outlets embracing citizen photojournalism as a legitimate source for editorial images and video content.
News
Getty Images acquires citizen photojournalism pioneer Scoopt
Getty Images (NYSE: GYI) has announced that it has acquired Scoopt, a pioneer in marketing eyewitness images (citizen photojournalism) to mainstream media outlets. Scoopt was launched in 2005 and has gained recent notoriety when it supplied images to the media of the tragic Manhattan plane crash that killed New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle in October 2006 and coverage of the fierce January 2006 storms in the U.K., which brought devastation and disruption to large parts of the country.
EditorialsFeatures
Will mobile phone cameras turn all of us into papparazzi?
Recently Kyle MacRae the CEO of Scoopt, an agency specializing in marketing the work of amateur/citizen photojournalists, was interviewed on CNN by Jonathan Mann. During the interview MacRae highlights examples of images sold by Scoopt and the potential revenue that may be earned with your cell phone camera. Mann asks the question “Is this going to turn anyone with a cell phone into a member of a lurking hoard of people chasing celebrities on the off-chance they might be able to get a shot just like professional paparazzi?” MacRae’s response “in 18 months of business we simply haven’t seen it.”
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Citizen Photojournalists get a new outlet on Yahoo and Reuters
In a move that has already set off alarm bells among professional photojournalists, Yahoo and Reuters announced a program called "You Witness" to allow amateur photographers with cell-phone cameras to submit images of newsworthy current events for use in both companies' news outlets. Reuters will also distribute the appropriate images through other news outlets it supplies with current event photographs. Reuters says they will compensate photographers for images used and distributed at the same rate as they compensate their own free-lancers.
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Scoopt partners with Fotolibra
Scoopt, the citizen journalism picture agency has announced a partnership with Fotolibra to offer more traditional stock photography to its customers. The two services offer very different and distinct content and are attempting to promote each others respective offerings. The reasoning behind the partnership was described in an e-mail sent by Scoopt on August 10th “As you know, we deal mainly in breaking news and celebrity material... the kind of pictures and videos that make tonight's evening news, tomorrow's newspaper and weekly and monthly magazines. We don't really deal with 'stock' photography, which is to say anything creative or artistic or non-newsworthy.”
Features
Become a reporter for Scoopt
Ever catch the perfect image with your digital camera or camera phone and
wish you could find a way to connect with photo editors who could use the image? Scoopt, a new service allows
you to submit your own breaking news pictures in order to generate licensing
revenue for being in the right place at the right time.
With so many of people armed with camera phones, anyone can take pictures of what is happening around them. It might be worth registering with their site just in case you are walking down the street and catch some hot new celebrities making-out. Simply smile, aim your camera, and say ...Paparazzi!
For more details check out http://www.scoopt.com
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