How To Sell Your Photographs Online: A Citizen Journalist’s Mini-Guide To Monetizing Your Camera-Phone Content

It is now easier than ever to sell your pictures online , regardless of whether you are a professional photographer, or an everyday person armed with your camera-phone. In fact, the latter is increasingly desirable in the fast-paced, wait-for-no-man world of news content. Photo credit: Alexander Kolomietz Citizen journalists have already set about redefining how news is published, and where it is sourced from. Just as traditional journalism has slipped from the hands of an elite few, and into the hands of the many , thanks to the empowering, networked nature of the Internet, now the same is happening in the world of news photography. The news industry has an insatiable appetite for fresh material, and if you happen to snap an exclusive image using your mobile phone’s camera, it could well earn you a tidy profit. News agencies, publishers and broadcasters are all tapping into the power the millions of people out there on the scene, armed with their ultra-mob...