Popular Science -
15 Aug 2013 18:00

The rise of citizen photo/videojournalism: why old media loves it and needs it, and why it's, at best, a temporary solution. On Sunday, the New York Times broke the news that NBC News will acquire a startup called Stringwire, along with its just-graduated-from-NYU founder, Phil Groman. Stringwire is an app designed to make it easier for NBC to get and publish photos and videos from the man on the street. The app doesn't, well, exist, at the moment, so it's anyone's guess as to whether NBC intend...
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