NPR using Flickr to verify photos

(Via Cybersoc) National Public Radio is calling on its Flickr followers to identify individuals in a series of photos from a US senate meeting.

The idea reminded Journalism.co.uk of regional newspaper-style calls for information about old photos of sports teams etc in print. A clever way to get your community to help you out using a free tool too.

Tags: Flickr, NPR

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Andy Piper: Chasing the Daily Mail for Flickr attribution

Maybe not an unlikely crime, but its one that could be increasingly common as more newspapers turn to Flickr for content.

Andy Piper writes on his blog:

“The Daily Mail posted a story on their website about my friend Andy Stanford-Clark, and used a crop from one of my photos to illustrate it. As it happens, I would have been perfectly happy for them to use it (and even to crop it) if they’d asked for permission. At the time I post this, they are not following the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND licence…”

“….it’s a national newspaper displaying what would appear to be significant ignorance about the morality of using user-created content.”

Full post at this link…

Tags: andy piper, Andy Stanford-Clark, Flickr, The Daily Mail

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Bitter wallet: BBC offers £75 for ‘accidental’ use of Flickr image

A Flickr image of Birmingham’s city skyline was mistakenly used as a backdrop for a BBC news bulletin, the corporation has said, offering £75 usage fee to the photographer.

Full post at this link…

Tags: BBC, Flickr

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Flickr and geotagging: Part of the newsgathering model?

After speaking with Matthieu Stefani from cit-j platform Citizenside about how the site mobilises its users to cover local news events, a Flickr development came to mind as a useful tool for tracking/aggregating content around breaking news.

Using Flickr’s map function, you can search by keyword and location. A quick search for bushfire and Australia, for example, brings up a host of images from Flickr users:

A great resource for news organisations looking for new images and on-the-ground witnesses and contributors (just remember to respect Creative Commons licencing and attribution principles).

Flickr announced last week that it has passed the 100 million mark for geotagged images and the site has also introduced a feature, as part of the geotagging process, called ‘nearby’, which allows users to search for other geotagged images located with a 1km radius of their photo.

Tags: Australia, Flickr, Geotagging

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MediaShift: Cheap, fresh content using social media

Roland Legrand suggests seven ways “to keep costs low, content fresh using social media”. He also adds: “Never give up on training”.

Full blog post at this link…

Tags: content fresh using social media, Facebook, Flickr, Roland Legrand, Twitter

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CnetNews: Flickr users invited by Getty to join collection

This week certain Flickr users began receiving invitations from the photo agency Getty, as part of a new partnership between the agency and Yahoo. A special Flickr-branded Getty collection will be launcing in March. Full story…

Tags: Flickr, getty, Getty Realty Corp., Media & Journalism, photo agency

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Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – making the most of your newsgathering

Multimedia: make the most of interview recordings and images by publishing them, either on site, as part of an article or blog, or to a third party site like Flickr. Don't throw away work you've already done that provides background or context. Tipster: Laura Oliver. To submit a tip to Journalism.co.uk, use this link - we will pay a fiver for the best ones published. Full story...

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Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – link Flickr and Twitter

Social media: Want to post images to your Twitter account? SnapTweet links Twitter with Flickr and lets you post your latest photo by sending a message to @snaptweet. Tipster: Laura Oliver To submit a tip to Journalism.co.uk, use this link - we will pay a fiver for the best ones published. Full story...

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Getty teams up with Yahoo to tap into Flickr users

Getty Images is to collaborate with Yahoo-owned image-sharing site Flickr to harness the potential of the site’s members.

Through the partnership Getty will invite Flickr members to contribute their images to a ‘Flickr branded collection’ on the agency’s website. Pics in this collection will then be made available for licensing by Getty’s clients.

Editors from Getty will select the members and the two companies are currently working on online tools for contacting Flickr users.

Members who chose to submit their images to the collection will hand over exclusive commercial rights of the photos to Getty.

“Flickr members will benefit from Getty Images’ global sales and distribution teams helping to market their images and from Getty Images’ expertise and experience in rights and clearances of visual content. Getty Images’ customers will benefit from the fresh, unique and individualistic perspectives of members within Flickr’s global community,” a release from Yahoo said.

A launch date for the collection is yet to be announced.

Tags: Flickr, Getty Images

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Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk

Audio-visual: Be careful where you upload – read the terms and conditions first as they can include rights grabs. Revver is better than YouTube, Flickr is better than PhotoBucket. Avoid Facebook. Tipster: John Thompson

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Tags: Audio, Facebook, Flickr, John Thompson, Journalism.co.uk, Video, YouTube

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