Medias Collide: Yahoo and Reuters Recruit Citizen Photojournalists

Reuters.com and Yahoo News are the most popular news websites visited in the United States. Bringing in millions of viewers per day and attracting many different types of people, all looking to get glimpse of news events. Starting tomorrow, December 5, they are are going to start publishing Photos taken by everyday citizens via their camera phones. Thousands of print, online and broadcast media outlets subscribe to Reuters, and starting next year, Reuters will be feeding this camera phone snap shots through every outlet that they feed through their news service. Reuters said that their ultimate goal is to establish an entire service devoted to user submitted photographs and videos.


There have been all kinds of developments lately with getting everyday citizens involved in journalism and mass distributed media. Influenced by the influx of Blog popularity, community websites, video distribution and publishing sites like Youtube.com and the public's general infatuation with "iconic images." CNN and the BBC among the media giants who are beginning to see the future in what is known as readers becoming reporters.

Oneo of the major factors in deciding to take this great leap into citizen journalism is the general public's interest in sites like Flickr and Youtube. With the popularity and power that comes with these sites, how can established news sites not take notice? While I'm sure that citizen journalism will not replace the quality news reports and professionalism communicated by sites like Yahoo News and Reuters, there is certainly a collision of media here.

Digital Camera Photos submitted directly to established News sites
Journalism trusted by the hands of everyday citizens
Videos, Photographs, where will the line be drawn?

Who knows, maybe someday Yahoo News and Reuters will start their own blog site, and let everyday citizens claim territory on these powerful news sites.

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Have Camera Phone? Yahoo and Reuters Want You to Work for Their News Service