These days you don’t have to be a professional journalist to make money from reporting news. Thanks to the explosion of social media usage, Citizen journalism has grown tremendously.
And if you are you among those who just manage to be at the right place at the right time and are often a witness to most newsworthy incidents happening in their town, you are in luck.
If you are good at taking pictures and making videos or capable of writing quickly and posting those incidents online, you could make some money as a citizen journalist.
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Introducing Citizenside
Your motive for doing this may be sharing of news with your community or for making some cash.
In either case, if you’re like me, you would want to have an easy way of sharing and circulating the news. Additionally, you would want to be paid in a simple, straight forward way without going through a lot of hassle.
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The good news is that a french company, Citizenside, makes all that possible!
Primarily, the role of Citizenside is to offer a large worthwhile collection of videos and photos to large news outlets. It’s the contribution from people like you that makes their collection and keeps their business running.
You don’t have to look for buyers, as Citizenside would do it for you, allowing you to remain focused on taking photos and making videos.
How Citizenside Works
On uploading your photos or video footage to Citizenside, you automatically give them your consent to sell your items to prospective news outlets during the next three months.
During the said period they negotiate better prices for your work, enabling you to earn more.
Citizenside keeps you informed of the ongoing negations and sales taking place.
In case Citizenside do not consider your photos or video footage hot, they inform you of their decision within 48 hours and put your output in their image bank, while giving you the right to sell it to any other source.
All the royalties earned by you are paid after sixty days. The mode of payment is through PayPal.
The amount of royalty you get is 50-65 percent of the price at which they sell your stuff. Considering that you don’t have to spend any time or make efforts for selling your stuff, I think that is a fair deal.
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Joining & Making Money
You may join Citizenside by opening an account with them, or you could even log in using Facebook, Google and the like.
Signing up is easy and quick. No, you are not required to pay any fee for joining.
As soon as you sign up, you can start uploading your photos and videos and thus share the same with news outlets.
Even professional photojournalists can join Citizenside. They also get the same royalties, but being professionals they can submit first class photos or videos more often and thus make more money.
Mobile Applications
Citizenside has provision for Android and Apple applications, enabling you to upload your stuff in the shortest possible time.
You may also make use of these applications to check the latest news and the events for which the news outlets would quickly need photos.
So, next time you come across something newsworthy, remember that capturing it can make you some cold hard cash.
If you have information and pictures about someone who is listed on America’s Most Wanted Criminals, how much money could that be worth? Please give ballpark estimates or ranges. Thank You
It varries. Usually, they post the exact reward amount for info leading to capture of the individual.