Demotix plus openDemocracy a new model for journalism

Editor-in-chief of openDemocracy Tony Curzon Price, commenting on the Demotix site, echoed the sentiment “we’re rebuilding the media, piece by piece – Demotix’s citizen journalist collective and openDemocracy’s open-source analysis and commentary will bring new media and new models into a mixture of text and picture that is not just a replacement, but better than what came before”.

The two sites share a fundamental ethos: open participation and comment with a global reach. openDemocracy functions on contributions from experts and on the ground witnesses, funded by its charitable status, a number of Trust Foundations and individuals. Demotix, founded in September 2008, works by taking user-generated content and photographs from amateurs and freelancers and marketing them to mainstream media agencies. 70 per cent of any fee charged is given back to the original providers of the material.

via ‘Love Match’ of pro-democracy and cit-j site to reinvigorate reporting – Editors Weblog.