Yahoo! and Reuters desperate for news

Following in the desperate foot steps of CNN, Yahoo! and Reuters wants you to report news for them if you have a camera phone. Hoping to turn the millions of people with digital cameras and camera phones into photojournalists, Yahoo and Reuters are introducing a new effort to showcase photographs and video of news events submitted by the public. “There is an ongoing demand for interesting and iconic images,” said Chris Ahearn, the president of the Reuters media group. He said the agency had always bought newsworthy pictures from individuals and part-time contributors known as stringers. Have Camera Phone? Yahoo and Reuters Want You to Work for Their News Service [NYT]