Firefighters battle the wildfire in Moorpark, CA on Dec. 3. (You Witness News/Bradley Laurent)

This week, Yahoo News and Reuters announced a strategic alliance to display and distribute DIY videos and images of news events. You Witness News invites DIY contributors to upload newsworthy pictures and videos to the Yahoo website http://news.yahoo.com/you-witness or email them to pics@reuters.com, where they will be reviewed by Yahoo and Reuters editors. Selected images will be placed on Reuters and Yahoo News pages.

Starting next year, Reuters also plans to distribute “the very highest quality pictures” to its print, broadcast and online media subcribers. Reuters and Yahoo expect to pay contributors when their images are distributed commercially, but details of the compensation plan have not yet been made public.

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