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Topic: Licensing images to newspapers  

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PaulieWalnuts


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« on: August 06, 2008, 22:51 »

Occasionally I capture what might be newsworthy images. By the time any site would review/accept them it would be old news.

Anybody ever dealt directly with newspapers to license images? What person do you normally contact and do you use an agreement for the licensing?


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« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2008, 23:40 »

This was the purpose of Citizen Images.  If I remember it right, you could even alert them of the image by sending an email to their mobile, and they would work on selling it.

I don't know if they're succesful at that, but in fact most of what I see there is of editorial content (not necessarily newsworhty).

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Adelaide


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« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2008, 02:15 »

You can send your photos directly to newspaper and news agencies.

However, make sure you mention you expect payment. Once one of my photos got published but I didn't get paid. I didn't ask them either so I learned a lesson.


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Steve

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« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2008, 15:13 »

Call the paper and ask to speak with their photo editor.  Be warned you're going to get paid beans, somewhere from $50-$100 and possibly as low as $20 from a local paper. 

Be sure that you have names and caption information (as best you can) for anybody in the picture.  Tell him you have a freelance image that you want to sell.  Also remember that the standards for a journalist image is exposure, contrast and color correction only, no manipulating either the shot or the scene before you took the shot.  You may be asked to provide the RAW file and the paper will make corrections on equipment calibrated to work with their presses.  Review any contract you are given and make sure it's clear that you are not giving the paper all rights to an image.


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