About Us

Upload your news stories, images and video to Demotix, and we’ll broker your work to over 200 media buyers around the world – newspapers, magazines, TV channels, websites and publishers.

We have direct FTP feeds into some of the biggest news organizations in the world – Guardian, Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, and many others – who see your stories as we break them.

And we have a daily email feed to over 200 more media organizations around the world – from San Francisco to Kathmandu.

Basic, non-exclusive rights to your photos will sell for anything between $50 and $3,000 USD. We sell exclusive rights for whatever we can get. And some photos and videos can go for $100,000s.

The details are here Terms of Use and here Terms of Business, but basically:

• - You retain the copyright
• - We broker them across all spaces
• - We split the fee
  

Turi Munthe is the CEO. He's English-French-Swedish and was brought up in London. He's been a publisher, editor, policy analyst, lecturer, journalist and talking head for CNN, BBC, NBC, al-Jazeera, Asahi, Reuters, Sky, you name it, and he has written for The Economist, Slate.com, the FT, the Telegraph, the Nation and many others. He has lived in the US, Syria, Israel, Nepal, Spain and France, studied at Oxford University, the Hebrew University and NYU, and speaks Italian, French, Spanish and Arabic (pretty badly). He's given lectures on Iran to the Central Communist Party of China, and on erotica to the ICA. His one book is the (retrospectively quite gruesome) Saddam Hussein Reader, and he lives in London with the mother of his two children.

tm {at) demotix . com - profile name: Turi

Jonathan Tepper is the COO. He is frozen in time on Google as a very blonde and very nerdy 22-yr-old Rhodes Scholar - and hasn't changed much. He graduated with highest honours in History and Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and then went on to do his M.Litt at Oxford in Modern History (which is where Turi and he met). Jonathan's background is in finance: he has worked at SAC Capital, at Lehman Brothers and Bank of America. Jonathan is American, but was brought up in Spain and Mexico, and is a Trustee of Asociacion Betel in Britain. He can also do a handstand from the lotus position, has a near-photographic memory, and speaks Mediaeval Spanish (only useful in Sefardic retirement homes in Brooklyn).

jonathan {at) demotix . com - profile name: jtepper2

Ossie Ikeogu is Head of Sales. Ossie is a Londoner born and bred with over 10 years experience in the Stock Photography industry. After graduating at Warwick University in American History and Politics he had a brief foray into the world of journalism as a trainee cub reporter at the glamorous Watford Observer before embarking on a stint in finance to pay off student loans. After selling his soul he finally found his niche in the world of photography and image licensing; working at both Getty and Corbis where he had a perfect insight into the digitization of the industry but still remembers the days of lost transparencies and ‘real’ light boxes. He’s currently learning to play the Harmonica, and lives in North London with his partner and their baby daughter who contrary to all the baby books he endeavoured to read, still refuses to let him have a good night sleep.

Juliette Atkinson is the Sales Manager. Juliette has been working in the picture industry for the past 7 years, having started in the Victoria and Albert Museum Images department. Juliette has worked with VII Photo Agency in Paris, Documentography in London, Camera Press and PhotoVoice, and even spent a brief stint in a London photography gallery. Juliette is also a freelance photographer herself, and has exhibited in the Curzon Soho in London with ‘Faces of Cuba’, and in Paris with ‘Aqua Abstracts’ and ‘The Tower’.

Rob Butterworth is Joint-CTO. Rob began his Internet career when the Information highway was a two lane track. Over the last 12 years he has held positions ranging from senior programmer for a high-end software boutique to CTO for $1 billion/year financial firm and has led high profile projects for clients such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Macy’s, Neiman-Marcus and Bloomingdale’s to name just a few. After losing his wife in a battle with cancer, Rob left the world of 70 hr. weeks and power lunches to move his family to Boulder, Colorado where he has taken what he has learned in the Fortune 500 world and applies it to his work today with Demotix. He has 3 daughters, 6 sisters, and can - like Jonathan - do a handstand from the lotus position. profile name: admin

Alex McFadyen is Joint-CTO. An Englishman in Madrid, he was lured from his native isle by the better wine and weather. Previously, he attended the University of East Anglia to study computing and poker (artificial intelligence) and then went to work for the Associated Press at their electronic news production system team inside the BBC in London. After leaving the AP, and a brief trip to Japan, he became a "senior developer for hire" working for design and consultancy firms around the world. He is a dedicated OpenSource advocate who will have you using Firefox and OpenOffice in no time. Alex - surprisingly for an Englishman - also makes a fine California Roll. profile name: admin

Nuno Veloso is our Support and Development Engineer. Nuno was born in Portugal, raised in Brussels, studied IT Engineering in Braga (Portugal) and is now a proud Londoner thanks to Demotix. Nuno is a Drupal enthusiast and Free and Open Source Software evangelist, especially when it comes to putting technology to work for the greater good. He’s also interested in Natural Language Processing algorithms, and has a passion for foreign languages and cultures. Nuno speaks Portuguese, French, Dutch, English, Spanish and Galician, and is beginning to learn Arabic. profile name: nunoveloso

Wais Bashir is the Commissioning Editor. He graduated in Law from the University of Warwick then dived straight into the exhilarating world of reviewing legal contracts for a steel corporation. Wais now researches the key events for Demotix’s outstanding 14,000 world-wide reporters setting assignments. He is fluent in Farsi and Pashto. As an avid free running and rock climbing enthusiast he never leaves the office through the front door but rather scales the rooftops of central London disappearing off into the horizon. profile name: http://www.demotix.com/users/wais/profile

The Wider Team

Gandi supports Demotix and hosts our website. Gandi was created in 1999 to provide an honest and transparent service for domain name buyers that was a credible alternative to the mass-market players in the US that dominated the industry. Gandi seeks to put the customer first, provide services that are fairly priced and with excellent customer service. It never advertises, but relies on its customers to be its advocates, ploughing this saving back into product development and service. Gandi supports like-minded companies seeking to shake the status quo, and chose Demotix because it recognises its desire to reshape the role of modern journalism.

Very Studios designed the Demotix site, and continues to drive all our visual cues. Founded 4-5 yrs ago by the dashing Alex Smith...

Volunteer Team Without our amazing and revolving volunteer team, we would be nowhere. You have been many, and you have been amazing, and we hope you've had as much fun with us as we've had hosting you here at Demotix.

What is news at Demotix?

News is information about recent events or happenings. These can be military, political, social, cultural or even human interest. News can consist of eyewitness accounts, analysis of current events based on original work and opinion pieces.

Who can upload photos and videos, and write stories?

Anyone who registers with Demotix can write a story. In many countries and environments citizen journalists are not safe. You may remain anonymous if you wish.

What is my contributor profile for?

Your background can give your stories greater depth and credibility. For example, if you live in Baghdad and are giving an eyewitness account, tell us about yourself. Share your background, ideas and interests with other users.

Will Demotix ever delete any photos, videos or articles?

Demotix will not edit your remarks, but it reserves the right to delete stories that are violent, pornographic, racist, offensive, slanderous, or libelous. We encourage members of the Demotix community to flag offensive content.

Who can comment on stories?

Anyone can comment on stories posted on Demotix. Debate should always be free and open.

Are you planning future developments?

Demotix is still a work in progress. We hope the site will continue to grow and develop through the input of our community. Let us know what you like, what you don't like, or what you wish we had. We're going to keep adding more features, but we want to know what could make this site better.

Should I share Demotix?

We believe in the wisdom of the crowds. News becomes more accurate the more people there are reporting on it; if someone makes a mistake we're more likely to catch it if everyone is on. We all have different insights, and that makes for richer news. The world is connected through six degrees of separation (actually, for most people is usually fewer), so when you join Demotix, we hope you will invite you friends and they will invite their friends.

We are named after Demotic, the form of writing used and most easily understood by the man in the Alexandrian street in 200 BC. The word 'demotic', meaning 'of the people', is still used to refer to the language of the people; today, it describes the modern language spoken by everyday Greeks.

In choosing a new name for the company, we were inspired by this ancient language. Our aim is to open up journalism to the people in the modern age, just as the demotic script opened up writing in ancient Egypt.