It’s how Peter Parker made a living after discovering his secret Spiderman powers, and now Yahoo and Reuters want to pay you to take pictures of breaking news stories. Yahoo and Reuters have recently partnered up to create a service they are calling “You Witness”. This service runs off of the premise that nearly everyone has a camera on their phone, and now these cameras are coming to a point where their image quality is acceptable for news stories. Because everyone has a camera phone, and there are always people around events that occur (which make breaking news), these people will take pictures of the happening and hopefully make some money.

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