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| Reuters and Yahoo! Enlist Camera Phones |
| from the photoshoppers-holiday dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday December 04, @18:06 (The Media) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/04/2147259 |
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[0]eldavojohn writes "In a huge advancement of citizen journalism,
Reuters and Yahoo! are [1]asking average people to be journalists with
their cell phones. I hope participants don't run the risks others have
for [2]photographing the police. You can expect to see these new photos
being used at Yahoo! and Reuters.com starting tomorrow." From the
article: "'People don't say, "I want to see user-generated content,"'
said Lloyd Braun, who runs Yahoo's media group. 'They want to see
[3]Michael Richards in the club. If that happens to be from a cellphone,
they are happy with a cellphone. If it's from a professional
photographer, they are happy for that, too.' Users will not be paid for
images displayed on the Yahoo and Reuters sites. But people whose photos
or videos are selected for distribution to Reuters clients will receive a
payment."

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Links:
0. http://www.foundmagazine.com/
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/04/technology/04yahoo.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin
2. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/30/0557216&tid=158
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Richards#Laugh_Factory_Incident