Yahoo/Reuters team up for user-generated contributions
Posted by Allie Judson on December 4, 2006 at 3:52 PM
Yahoo and Reuters are planning on teaming up to launch a new user-generated content web site. After Yahoo’s prior Internet video and user content deal with the youth focused citj video site Current TV fell through, the media group teamed up with Reuters to go in a new user-generated content direction.
Through the new site, You Witness News, users will be able to upload pictures and video to Flickr. Once downloaded, editors from Yahoo and Reuters will distribute clips and photos to relevant online articles.
Users will not be paid for content that is used on Yahoo and Reuters sites but will be paid if their videos are further distributed to Reuters’ clients. Photo editors at Reuters will be checking all images to make sure they haven’t been retouched or tampered with.
Both groups are hoping to further expand their user content resources beyond video and pictures in the future. Yahoo and Reuters will be facing competition for viewer’s media as more media groups turn to citizen journalism.
Source: The New York Times, Paid Content
Users will not be paid for content that is used on Yahoo and Reuters sites but will be paid if their videos are further distributed to Reuters’ clients. Photo editors at Reuters will be checking all images to make sure they haven’t been retouched or tampered with.
Both groups are hoping to further expand their user content resources beyond video and pictures in the future. Yahoo and Reuters will be facing competition for viewer’s media as more media groups turn to citizen journalism.
Source: The New York Times, Paid Content
Posted in :
0 TrackBacks
Listed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: Yahoo/Reuters team up for user-generated contributions.
TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.editorsweblog.org/mt/mt-tb.cgi/1242
Leave a comment