Social citizen journalism site Scoopt resold one of my photos today for a centre fold feature (hold it...) in The Independent, talking about this new generation of citizen journalists, or rather, citizens, who snap the news as it happens.
Scoopt is a real darling of the Scottish social media set which I discovered in the early days and introduced to Shel Israel and Rick Segal on their book creation tour. To be honest, we were pretty skeptical of this fairly tabloidy idea for selling images but, after meeting the founder of the company, Kyle Macrae, we were much more sold on the idea. So much so that as we came back into Edinburgh an hour later I saw the photo opp that I am still peddling today.
Earlier this year image giant Getty bought Scoopt out, but keep the citizen created content at the heart of the business.
Now I'm shooting a little less of the newsy stuff with the large SLR, finding that Scoopt's partnership with ShoZu means that in one click I can take and send the photo automatically for publication.
I've put the Independent spread in a Flickr tour which starts here so you can have a look and a read of the story and you can see the original set of pics there, too, as well as the original Sunday Times spread from late last year.
We bought the last Indie in town for this!
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Posted by: chris | June 11, 2007 at 08:56 PM
... and I stole the Head of Politics' copy from her desk before she noticed it was gone ;-)
Posted by: Drew Buddie | June 12, 2007 at 12:01 PM
Top work, Ewan!
Posted by: Antony Mayfield | June 17, 2007 at 11:16 AM