Scoopt (bought by Getty Images in 2007) were the first to tackle the citizen journalism field and most of the images were from ‘real cameras’, not mobile phones – 6 years on lens technology and social media platforms have matured enough to provide a mass upload and retrieval of instant news images.
PAN has had comms from start ups and established photo news delivery platforms recently – here they are:
Based in Canada CrowdMedia CEO Mart Roldan told PhotoArchiveNews.com ‘Our platform captures more than 150M social photos everyday, all in real time, and filters them down to the 0.03% that are valuable to news publishers, while clearing the copyright and automating payment.’
The system seems to auto-trawl Twitter photos, post them in a photo library fashion, your choose what you want, the system then auto contacts the originator and request licensing options. Take a look here
Cont3nt has been around for a while – ‘Our e-commerce platform enables a reporter in Lybya, Syria or Occupy Wall Street to sell their breaking news footage to the BBC or their local paper and have it published in a half-hour’ take a look here
‘NewsPoint is the world’s first verification platform for newsrooms, a service provided by Blottr.’
NewsPoint offers subscribers:
• Access and full perpetual worldwide rights to use video and still image news footage from around the world on an exclusive basis
• Monitoring tools for newsrooms to keep abreast of emerging stories and trends
• Verification of any content surfaced or received from unsolicited sources or across social media, to help protect reputations and ensure NewsPoint clients get it right
• Direct access to the world’s largest contributor network to source original footage for their exclusive use
• Where possible, interviews and connections with trusted, authenticated eyewitnesses at the scene of an event https://www.newspoint.biz/
