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Yahoo and Reuters solicit ‘citizen journalist’ pix and vid

By Andrew Grant-Adamson • Dec 5th, 2006

From today sending a picture to Yahoo News could lead to world wide distribution to mainstream media by Reuters. Stills and video can be submitted to You Witness pages at both Yahoo and the news agency.
Material will be uploaded to Flickr from where Yahoo will select material to be used in its news service [...]


Blogging for a job

By Andrew Grant-Adamson • Sep 12th, 2006

Like many young journalists starting out after finishing their post-grad diploma, Andy Dangerfield is freelancing. And like all freelances he faces a struggle to make sure that possible employes know his work. Nowadays, a blog is one of the most effective ways of doing this and Andy’s is a good example.