Yahoo!-Reuters want photos from your mobile

"Following last week's news that Yahoo! and Nokia have teamed up to provide mobile users with greater web services, the world's second most popular search engine has just announced a deal with Reuters which will allow it to showcase photographs and videos of news events taken on mobile phones as they are submitted by the public. [Reblogged from Bigmouth media Industry News]

"As of tomorrow, December 5th and onwards, users may begin uploading their photos and videos, taken on their cell phone, onto Yahoo!'s You Witness News site.

All the submitted content will be placed on Yahoo!'s Flickr service - or a similar site for videos - before being reviewed by editors at both Yahoo! and Reuters.

Submissions will then be selected for placement on pages with relevant news articles, in the same way that photos from professional photographers are incorporated into the site.

Reuters also state that it would like to distribute some of the submissions to the thousands of print, online and broadcast media companies that subscribe to its news service beginning next year.

... This project between Yahoo! and Reuters is perhaps one of the most high-profile attempts to encourage what is becoming known as "citizen journalism", as the number of blogs and local news sites expands rapidly across the internet. "

Related articles in The New York Times and Reuters.

emily | 1:15 PM | Citizens as Camera Phone Reporters |
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