Everyone’s a photo-journalist now
From the Press Gazette comes word that the Glasgow Evening Times newspaper recently used a picture snapped by a reader’s cameraphone as its front-page photo for the first time. According to the story in the Gazette, Times reader Paul O’Brien used his phone to take a shot of a woman as she was rescued from the river by a military helicopter.
Not only that, but according to the Gazette story O’Brien’s photo was just one of six that were emailed from the cameraphones of observers at the rescue (there were no official Evening Times photographers at the scene).
“This is a first for us. It was used with the London bombs, but we’ve never done it,” said picture editor John Young. “It’s not that great quality as a picture, it’s acceptable and it gets the message across. With a news picture it’s sometimes content rather than quality that matters.”
(link via Editors’ Weblog).
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