Will Crowdsourcing replace photographers in print media organisations?

The media field is undergoing tremendous changes after the boom of the web and web enabled technologies. The latest trends enhance the productive capacity of media industry. One among them is Crowdsourcing, which means obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and especially from an online community, rather than from traditional employees or suppliers. This process can occur both online and offline. It combines the efforts of crowds of self-identified volunteers or part-time workers, where each one on their own initiative adds a small portion that combines into a greater result. Crowdsourcing services continue to be the disruption of traditional industries, such as the graphic design or photography industries.

The possibility of "mass amateurization" that the internet allows is growing faster. With blogging and photo-sharing websites, anyone can publish an article or photo that they have created. This creates a mass amateurization of journalism and photography, requiring a new definition of what credentials make someone a journalist, photographer, or news reporter. This mass amateurization threatens to change the way news is spread throughout different media outlets. Websites like iStockPhoto provides a platform for people to upload photos and purchase them for low prices. Clients can purchase photos through credits, giving photographers a small profit.

Are we seeing a decline in print publications?

It is evident from the recent reports that the print media is under a declining stage all over the world. The readers are having a paradigm shift from newspapers to the online medium of news. A steady decline in print circulation and a precipitous drop in advertising revenue, especially classified advertising, have taken their toll on newspapers and newspaper chains. Print sales of Newspapers might only be going in one direction, but their websites are recording huge surges in readers. Introduction of the iPhone (2007) and smart phones has really accelerated the pace of decline.

In the international scenario some have been forced out of business, such as the Rocky Mountain News, the Seattle Post Intelligencer (at least its print operation - an online-only version continues) and the Ann Arbor News (which also will continue an online edition as well as a print product twice a week). Others filed for bankruptcy reorganization, such as Tribune Company, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Philadelphia Newspapers company, the Chicago Sun Times, the Journal Register Co., American Community Newspapers, Freedom Communications, Heartland Publications, Creative Loafing and the Columbian newspaper in Vancouver. Others, such as Morris Publishing and Affiliated Media (the parent company of Media News Group), did bankruptcy reorganization filings prearranged with creditors. But, The Johnston Press, the 246-year-old newspaper publisher, recorded a total of 11,144,376 visitors.

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