Reporter

Reporter is a mobile app based e-marketplace for newsworthy photos and videos. The seller can be anybody using a mobile phone and capturing an interesting moment; the targeted buyers are media outlets in general, news agencies in particular. Using mainly smartphone data, the Reporter app and its server application help verifying the authenticity of the captured images. The app provides instant camera capability complementing the recorded media content with location data and with a digital security watermark to help the authentication process. Then it is easily uploaded to the Enterprise module, which tags the media content and stores it in a well structured searchable database. News outlet users of the Reporter system can search the database by location, by popularity, by themes etc. They can buy easily the publication rights of selected content from the owner of the document among preset conditions, including copyright and pricing.