The citizen journalism news agency Demotix is to open up it`s site to advertisers in a bid to create additional revenue streams, NewMediaAge reports. There seems to be a lot of money in this. Demotix works like any other news agency, but their sources are citizen journalists from (according to NewMediaAge) 83 countries, including countries with limited press freedom.
You basically upload your copy, video or photo to them, they sell it for you and give you 50% of the sale. Their clients include Le Monde, Newsweek and The Daily Telegraph.
This looks like a model that isn`t going to go away. Does this benefit journalism? Most news enterprises are cutting back on their foreign reporting, if mainstream media is going for sites like Demotix for foreign news, (and there is money in producing these stories and photographs) how can it really be trusted?
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Dear Bjorklund,
My name is Cherise I work at Demotix please could you get in touch at the address below regarding the post.
cc@demotix.com
Best,
Cherise
-just want to flag a few mistakes printed in the New Media Age article
Looking forward to hearing from you!
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