Shock magazine, Web site seeks consumer photos, videos

Hachette Filipacchi Media USA announced plans last March to launch a new magazine called Shock, which has been adapted from the French title Choc, according to FIPP.

"The visually driven Shock hopes to open up readers' eyes. The monthly will feature photographs of the frightening, the arousing, the weird and the beautiful.

According to the publisher, Shock plans to strive for interactivity. Each issue will include four pages dedicated to photos submitted by readers. Shock will also sell photos online and deliver pictures directly to phones.

The magazine will hit the newstands May 30 2006." [via Alan Reiter's Cameraphone Report and Moco News]

If the caption from the Shock website is anything to go by, this type of solicitation for citizen journalism participation is the worst kind, based on violence, humiliation, the plight of victims and scandal - and is as low as it goes This is cameraphone reporting at it's most debased level.

emily | 5:12 PM | Citizens as Camera Phone Reporters |
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