As 200 years ago, especially the local journalism benefited from the locally collected information which can be included in the reporting. Wikileaks and co.: 200 years ago citizens participated actively in the journalistic coverage the media in the 21st century: photos, videos, and digital dominate the news editors facilitates access to visuals of citizen reporters in Berlin, December 20. 2010 the current discussion about the Wikileaks revelations platform again fuels the debate around the issue of public 2.0 and the new join offers of the media world. “But the phenomenon of citizen journalism is not new on the contrary: material of laity was in German local journalism already in the late 18th and the 19th century of enormous importance for reporting”, know Daniel Holle, founder and Managing Director of the first German online marketplace for news photos and videos tvype. So less is the new decentralized collecting and Publishing information”, so mother Hulda next. The technologies with which just happens, as well as the need of the media are new photo – and video materials.” Long time generated information in the media found little attention by laymen. Before the offerings of Web 2.0 had been established, a monopoly in the media came to professional journalists because they decided as far as possible to the dissemination of news. Now the mobile technologies of the 21st century allow each in principle back to present information of various kinds of public.
As evidenced by the success of Wikileaks or the numerous social networks, the interest in this type of education is greater than ever. The voluntary help of citizens was common but more than 200 years ago, and in particular in local journalism. To make newspapers more entertaining, publishers called on their readers, to submit contributions. Also they could meet so converted newspaper reading, which deals with the changed the moral values of the enlightenment had * strikingly different than at the time the prominence of image materials in the media today. Hardly an online article, TV review or newspaper report comes without photo and video content that readers draw the attention. It is certain: the 21st century news live images.
But professional photographers and camera crews are not everywhere, explosive events are unpredictable and the fast geknipsten images go at lightning speed around the world. Often, these images due to unexplained rights issues are not suitable. Exactly this idea online platform picks up tvype (www.tvype.com) and gives you a professional access to the image content of the citizen reporter news editors. As 200 years ago, especially the local journalism benefited from the locally collected information which can be included in the reporting. Even today, it is just for regional media through services such as tvype of simple and cost-effective, posts photos and videos to revalue. At the same time should be citizen reporters paid fair use by tvype for their dedication and all licensing issues legally clarified. * Source: Schonhagen, Phil omen (1995): the participation of the reader.