StreetAnchor.com - an Indian citizen journalism effort

Yet to be launched site StreetAnchor (www.streetanchor.com) hopes to give a boost to citizen journalism in India. Users can upload photos, videos, MMS about everyday issues they come across. Bad roads, corrupt policeman, bribing - anything and everything that you feel needs be brought to the limelight can be provided to the site. Their goal seems to be to empower the responsible citizen.

IBNLive is one of the Indian portals who has successfully executed and popularized citizen journalism in India. Although one of the biggest differences is that StreetAnchor aims to share the revenue with the users. Monetization is planned through advertising and selling the content to other news channels.

The site has been bootstrapped by Arnab Chatterjee, the founder,  and his friends. Arnab was inspired by YouTube and says

“The Jessica lall case was a murder but internet played a major role in turning it into a campaign. Similarly we want other issues to come to light with an aim that it might solve the problem”.

via NDTV

They hope to go live by August 15th, our Independence Day.

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Comments

5 Responses to “StreetAnchor.com - an Indian citizen journalism effort”

1. kapil Dhawan on August 15th, 2007 3:46 am

   hi name is kapil. i’m the co-founder, ceo of streetanchor.com. i just read the stuff above and i’m really dismayed at the content. for one, we are not inspired by youtube, metacafe etc. secondly, we are team of four people. no one person is ‘bootstrapping’ this site. we believe in teamwork and this site is a result of that. the ndtv interview also ignored this fact (removed on the editing table, we guess). this kind of stuff is totally against our principles.

2. DD on August 15th, 2007 1:02 pm

   I dont see any problem with what is written above. Infact after reading it, i decided to give a comment on how good an idea this was and should be promoted.
   It is only after reading Kapil’s comment that i am wondering what the issue is, It looks like i have missed gravely,

   BTW, this is a good idea, not verry new but in Indian context definitely relevant and worth trying.
   all the Best!!

3. pranav on August 16th, 2007 9:57 pm

   @kapil, I just sourced info from the ndtv story linked above. So, it is understandable that I rehashed the same content.

4. kapil Dhawan on August 21st, 2007 3:37 pm

   hi pranav. no sweat man. you would know how difficult it’s to get into media on your own. and we had one shot at it, wanted really to make an impact.

5. kapil Dhawan on August 21st, 2007 3:40 pm

   hi ‘dd’. thank you so much. we really hope that public at large takes to it. have you seen something like this? please let me know about it. thanks.