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Pro-am photo and video agency Citizenside has completed a hat-trick of French newspapers by signing up a third partner, Le Parisien.

Le Parisien is the latest title to use Citizenside's reporter kit, which gives news organisations a tool to find and encourage users who contribute reliable, news-related images and videos. Earlier this month the company announced its deal with Metro International and the launch of the MetroReporter site, which creates a community for users to share images and videos with each and the title's editors, as part of the French edition.

But the new section of Le Parisien's site using Citizenside's technology, You, is distinctly different from previous deployments of the reporter kit by publishers, Matthieu Stefani, vice president of Citizenside.com, told Journalism.co.uk.

You.leparisien.fr will add text contributions from readers, such as eye witness accounts of events, alongside images and video. "Non-validated content" submitted by users will be displayed alongside material that has been editorially verified to increase the speed of publication with fact-checking carried out 'a posteriori' and a third-party company used to filter, but not verify, material before publishing.

The site also takes news feeds from Le Parisien's main site to mix amateur and professional content within the microsite.

Citizenside's reporter kit is already used by partner 20minutes and French magazine Voici, and has a partnership with French radio station RTL.

As part of MetroReporter, if a member of the community's contribution is republished online or in print they will be paid between €10 and €70 for their contribution. Metro has agreed to regularly publish and therefore pay for user-generated content as part of the trial.

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Laura Oliver
Laura Oliver
Laura Oliver is a freelance journalist, a contributor to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, co-founder of The Society of Freelance Journalists and the former editor of Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)

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