Combining Professional and Citizen News Photography

Steve Outing on the media's coverage of Hurricane Katrina, on how they have integrated citizen photo contributions with those of their staff journalists - they haven't really, they keep them separate.

"As I've been looking around the Web today for photos of Hurricane Katrina's damage to New Orleans and surrounding areas, I've had to specifically seek out "citizen" photos and those from professional photojournalists. At most news sites, still, the two groups of images are separated.

... Here's a suggestion, from the perspective of the Web reader/viewer: I'd like to see a single gallery of the best images from the storm, whether they be from staff photojournalists, wire-service photojournalists, or citizen photographers. In a story like this, there will be citizen photos that are more powerful than what the pros come up with. So why not mix them up to produce a hurricane-image gallery made up of the best photographs, period?"

emily | 4:36 PM | Citizens as Camera Phone Reporters |
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