New Demotix website breaks digital divide uniting citizen and pro journalists
January 7, 2009 - Today, Demotix, the online media tool pioneering the professional distribution of citizen journalists’ photographs and videos, launched a new website to allow users and media outlets to more effectively find and form communities around content and regional interests. 
Fast attracting an international community of journalists, bloggers, amateur and professional photographers, the site has built a library of thousands of images and videos, from over 1000 users in 96 countries in just six months.
Building reporting teams all over the world, Demotix is on the frontline of new media technology and re-drawing the map of news journalism by allowing both professional and citizen journalists the chance to share their stories and images with the mainstream media, filling the gap created by the decrease in foreign news journalists.
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Designed by Very Studio, the new site overhauls Demotix's website, reorganising content through a graphic inter-face, to more clearly communicate the nature and uses of the website - seeing, recording, uploading and disseminating. Other features include a widget, or mini-feed, from Demotix, linking up to major sites such as Google and the BBC.
Founder and CEO of Demotix, Turi Munthe says: “The media is at a major and critical cross-roads. The internet has destroyed much of the old: newspapers and broadcasters no longer have the money or staff to cover the world. New Media has to step into its shoes. The internet is not just a new platform (like radio was to the newspaper, or TV was to the radio), it's a tool. We at Demotix are trying to harness its power and trying to reinvent the way news is sourced.”