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NPR using Flickr to verify photos

Laura Oliver — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:53:16 +0000

(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.

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Andy Piper: Chasing the Daily Mail for Flickr attribution

Judith Townend — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:12:40 +0000

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…

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

Laura Oliver — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:27:43 +0000

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…

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Flickr and geotagging: Part of the newsgathering model?

Laura Oliver — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:00:26 +0000

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.

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MediaShift: Cheap, fresh content using social media

John Thompson — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:32:07 +0000

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…

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CnetNews: Flickr users invited by Getty to join collection

Judith Townend — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:15:29 +0000

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…

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

Laura Oliver — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:21:34 +0000

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.

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

Laura Oliver — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:52:29 +0000

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

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Getty teams up with Yahoo to tap into Flickr users

Laura Oliver — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:09:44 +0000

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.

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Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk

John Thompson — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:44:15 +0000

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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