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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Brett Van Ort

Brett Van Ort

Soldier fights in pink boxers - Your News, Your Photos, Your Voice - WeSay.com - 0 views

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    WeSay AP photo of boxer clad us army soldier.
Brett Van Ort

British Journal of Photography - Exclusive: Scoopt doomed by the rise of social networks - 0 views

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    BJP article about failings of Scoopt. Claims he asked Janis Krums, who shot the first Twitt pic of the Hudson River crash whether he would have rather had $100K or 100K hits.
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JEECamp: Kyle Macrae describes lessons learned from Scoopt | Media | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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    Guardian article about Scoopt. Describes failings of Scoopt, highest purchase price Scoopt received-£2000, McRae states that BBC robbed Scoopt of income.
Brett Van Ort

Journalism.co.uk :: Scoopt after Flickr photos - 0 views

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    Newsletter profiling Scoopt's open letter to Flickr members so that they can link tagged photos to Scoopt accounts that they sign up for. The tagging allows Scoopt to "acquire" the photographs and use them for their distribution.
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JEECamp Notes: Kyle McRae and the rise and fall of Scoopt | Joanna Geary - 0 views

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    Kyle McRae, founder of Scoopt, talks about the creation of a business based on UGC, its sale to Getty and it's eventual demise two years later.
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Citizen journalism picture agency Scoopt closes - Press Gazette - 0 views

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    Quotes from McRae about Scoopt and it's being the first to monetise citizen photojournalism.
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So long, Scoopt - 0 views

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    Recounts "Kyle", one of the innovators of Scoopt, who left the company in early 2008. One year before it was bought by Getty Images.
Brett Van Ort

2.8 » Garry Winogrand with Bill Moyers, 1982 - 0 views

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    2.8: a wide-open view on the practice of street photography by Michael David Murphy, While Seated
Brett Van Ort

Photo of Mercedes Implicated in Glasgow Airport Bombing - 0 views

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    Includes a photograph a citizen journalist took of a Mercedes packed with Propane gas that was to explode outside of a nightclub off Haymarket St. The photograph earned £20,000 for the photographer.
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Twitter first off the mark with Hudson plane crash coverage - Editors Weblog - 0 views

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    Story on US Air crash in Hudson and how a picture uploaded on Twitter immediately by a member of the public was the first to be broadcast on any media outlet.
Brett Van Ort

Citizen photojournalism agencies: future success or fundamentally flawed? - Editors Weblog - 0 views

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    Talks about start up citizen photojournalism sites that were eventually bought by AFP and Getty. Scoopt founder Kyle MacRae talks about the how the model of his site, Scoopt, fundamentally will not work.
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Citizen Photojournalist Sells Image For $40,000 - 0 views

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    The image was grainy, low quality and shot by a 17-year-old, most likely on a mobile phone. And, according to the London Times, it earned the photographer
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WeSay.com - Photos from amateur photographers and photojournalists - Your News, Your Ph... - 0 views

shared by Brett Van Ort on 18 May 09 - Cached
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    WeSay.com is an online news site that hosts photographers of all skill levels and features their photos."
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Scoopt | Home - 0 views

shared by Brett Van Ort on 18 May 09 - Cached
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Africa to get citizen photojournalism - 0 views

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    Journalism jobs, news and links for journalists working online and in print media
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RED DIGITAL CINEMA - EPIC & SCARLET REVEALED - 0 views

shared by Brett Van Ort on 11 May 09 - Cached
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    Where cameras are headed. You better have about 10 TB of storage if you have one of these. Also red.com for info about other motion and still systems.
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