Demotix and Storyful announce citizen news channel

Submitted by Tom Barfield on Fri, 27/04/2012 - 14:53

Two of the leading forces in social journalism have joined forces to create an unique real-time newswire.

Demotix has been a pioneer in the curation of user-generated photos and video and the promotion of citizen journalism. Storyful is the first news agency purpose-built for the social media age. Together, they have created a news channel that will deliver a stream high-value and rights-cleared images and video to news organisations.

Demotix will now deliver its content through a dedicated channel on the StoryfulPro platform, which is used by some of the world's leading media organisations, including YouTube, ABC News and the New York Times. Clients will now have the ability to source from a comprehensive real-time feed of content, discovered and verified by Storyful alongside rights-cleared imagery from the Demotix network.

"This new channel meets the great challenge facing journalists in a social age," said Storyful CEO Mark Little, "how can we find user-generated content that we can trust and safely use in our stories?". Turi Munthe, CEO of Demotix said: "By combining Storyful's discovery and verification system with the vast reach of the Demotix network, we can offer a valuable commercial connection between the most authentic and compelling content creators and the most forward-thinking newsrooms."

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Hey everyone, apologies for

Submitted by Turi Munthe on Tue, 01/05/2012 - 09:53.

Hey everyone, apologies for the delay in getting back to you.

- Storyful, as you know, has hitherto only worked with video. They showcase the social web to their clients - Al-Jazeera, CNN, etc...
Exactly the same thing will happen with our breaking image feed. If clients want any of the images, they'll come to us. No slicing up fees. 50/50 as ever.

- Demotix, on the other hand, will be working with Storyful to pick up the best of the video web that they find, to licence onto our clients.

Hope that clarifies!

Turi

I too would like to see more

Submitted by Evan Golub on Mon, 30/04/2012 - 01:46.

I too would like to see more details. My understanding of Storyful was that contributors of images did not get any money even if those images were published.

very Interesting , but can

Submitted by Niels Wenstedt on Sat, 28/04/2012 - 16:08.

very Interesting , but can you provide more detailed information about it?

Wenstedt Photography _ Buenos Aires_ Argentina

Every one of these deals

Submitted by Chris Hills on Fri, 27/04/2012 - 18:06.

Every one of these deals takes another slice of the fees?

Chris Hills
Jagraphics
www.jagraphics.co.uk/photo

So me-thinks. Could we have a

Submitted by Ian Kydd'Miller on Fri, 27/04/2012 - 23:16.

So me-thinks. Could we have a more detailed explanation how this will benifit us financially (or not) ??

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