http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2008/03/14/jeecamp-pitch-from-kyle-mcrae-ex-scoopt/ Online journalism news Mon, 21 May 2012 22:14:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2008/03/14/jeecamp-pitch-from-kyle-mcrae-ex-scoopt/comment-page-1/#comment-5847 Neil Michael Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:16:08 +0000 http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/03/14/jeecamp-pitch-from-kyle-mcrae-ex-scoopt/#comment-5847 There is little practical merit in the idea. What would be the point of it anyway, if all the person behind it ends up selling on the idea to mainstream media? In this case, maybe he won't but he did with Scoopt despite all its grandious ideas. Bottom line, if you want to get your stories/pictures out there - just get in touch with the mainstream media, or set up your own website, or maybe just try an alternative that doesn't sell out to the mainstream media. I recently took a sequence f pictures of a heron eating a duck and got a mainstream agency to sell them on, whichy they did. I would have used Getty because of their reputation but Barcroft Media got in on the act very quickly, so I went with them. There is little practical merit in the idea. What would be the point of it anyway, if all the person behind it ends up selling on the idea to mainstream media? In this case, maybe he won’t but he did with Scoopt despite all its grandious ideas. Bottom line, if you want to get your stories/pictures out there – just get in touch with the mainstream media, or set up your own website, or maybe just try an alternative that doesn’t sell out to the mainstream media. I recently took a sequence f pictures of a heron eating a duck and got a mainstream agency to sell them on, whichy they did. I would have used Getty because of their reputation but Barcroft Media got in on the act very quickly, so I went with them.

]]> http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2008/03/14/jeecamp-pitch-from-kyle-mcrae-ex-scoopt/comment-page-1/#comment-4773 Richard Ryan Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:42:39 +0000 http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/03/14/jeecamp-pitch-from-kyle-mcrae-ex-scoopt/#comment-4773 I think it's a great idea. Anything that helps me get articles out there is always going to be welcome. I think it’s a great idea. Anything that helps me get articles out there is always going to be welcome.

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