Göteborgs-Posten, Scandinavia's second-largest morning newspaper, today published on its website its first news photo taken by a mobile phone.
Johan Boström of the Swedish paper's news desk tells me that after a collision between a tram and a truck in central Göteborg, reporter
Ralph Källström reached the scene and filed a brief report to the news desk. Then he used his mobile phone to snap some pictures, picking the best and e-mailing it (via the phone) to the news desk, which added it to the
web version of the story. ... But the story's not over. According to Boström, "20 minutes later a photographer from
G-P arrived. The pictures he delivered to the news desk an hour later were technically of higher quality but did not compete in news quality." While in the print edition the photographer's photos will be used, on the website they're sticking with the reporter's photo-phone shots.
That's a great example of why news organizations should be replacing all reporters' mobile phones with photo phones.
The camera cellphone is much more than a simple camera...
