September 5, 2003
Paper Publishes Its 1st Cell-Phone News Photo
Steve Outing in E-Media Tidbits reports that Scandinavia's second-largest morning newspaper, Göteborgs-Posten, published yesterday on its website its first news photo taken by a mobile phone.
A reporter arrived at the scene of a collision between a tram and a truck in central Göteborg, snapped some pictures with his camera phone and sent them off via e-mail (by phone) to the news desk. "A great example of why news organizations should be replacing all reporters' mobile phones with photo phones" says Steve Outing.
Just for the record, reportedly, the very first photo taken by a camera phone and published on the front page of a newspaper was in June 8 of this year, when Sydney's Sunday edition of The Daily Telegraph published a photo of flamboyant jailed stockbroker Rene Rivkin inside the detention center, where he was serving the first 24 hours of his sentence for insider trading. cf Camera phone in Sydney jail gets media attention .
UPDATE / CORRECTION Japan Media Review reported an earlier case in Japan. A photo of a bank fire was published in the Yomiuri Shimbun.
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