Somewhere definitive, perhaps, to send your cellphone video of crashing zeppelins…
Beginning tomorrow, media companies Yahoo! and Reuters will allow members of the public to upload or e-mail photos and videos to illustrate breaking news stories. The “You Witness” service, which aims to turn the world’s hundreds of millions of camera phones into a news resource, is available at http://news.yahoo.com/page/youwitnessnews and http://www.reuters.com/youwitness. Yahoo! may eventually solicit user contributions for other areas including sports, entertainment and international sites.
Reuters will edit and vet selected photos and distribute them to other news outlets. Yahoo! and Reuters are working on a plan to compensate contributors whose photos or videos are selected for syndication.
[tags]YouTube, Reuters, Yahoo, youwitnessnews[/tags]
