Clients

Leading media houses in Europe are using the Reporter Kit right now.



News leaders using the Reporter Kit right now

We are working with an awesome team from Paris, an organisation calling themselves Citizenside. They’re great to work with, their passion is incredible and they’re genuine.

All too often, you come across companies that give you their pitch, attempting to baffle you with jargon or just giving the hard sell. Citizenside don’t do that and that’s why it’s fun to be working with them. Long may it continue.

Richard Wilner - Audience Relations Developer Archant

Archant

iwitness24 from Archant

Launched in January 2012, Archant’s iwitness24 platform has already seen enormous success in engaging local readers to report issues important to them.

Members’ amazing photos are regularly printed in many of the regional publishers’ local titles, and strong links have been forged between Archant’s main websites and the iwitness24 community.

See how community content is used on this section page on Gardening from the website of the Eastern Daily Press, the UK’s biggest-selling regional morning newspaper.

We strongly believe, along with the CEO and the rest of the leadership at Le Monde, that if we want to survive long-term, if we want to keep young people reading the paper, the website, and the mobile apps, we need to integrate people who do not resemble us.
Serge Michel - Deputy Editorial Director Le Monde

Le Monde

Le Monde Académie by Citizenside

Le Monde, one of France’s most respected daily newspapers, celebrated its 68th anniversary in June 2012 with a competition aimed to rejuvenate and diversify its reporting. Monde Académie runs on a light version of Citizenside’s Reporter Kit platform, and will be open for applications from aspiring journalists between ages 18 – 25.

Aralynn McMane, executive director of young readership development at WAN-IFRA, described the initiative as “a very creative and long-overdue move”.

A journalist can’t be everywhere – this assumption is the main reason we launched our photo and video citizen journalist community, called Metro Reporter, in February 2010. Thanks to an efficient web and mobile platform built in collaboration with Citizenside, we have received more than 30,000 photos and videos in one year, and used more than 200 of them in print and online to illustrate articles written by Metro journalists.
Ari de Sousa - Director of Digital Metro France

Metro

Metro Reporter - France

In 2009, Metro International, the most read newspaper in the world, launched its news community in France under the brand Metro Reporter.

Metro France has agreed to purchase and publish contributions from their Metro Reporters on a regular basis, making it the first international news publication that regularly pays its audience to contribute content. MetroReporter also benefits from a highly effective media campaign totaling approximately €500,000 for print, online, and radio publicity.

The Reporter Kit has totally changed the way Le Parisien communicates with its readers. We rely on them to contribute news from the community, which our journalists view as a valuable new source of information. It’s our first real success of collaboration between readers and journalists in France, and was made possible by the flexibility of the Reporter Kit and Citizenside’s quick implementation of the platform. Our journalists took to it immediately!
Didier Cros - Associate Director of New Media Le Parisien

Le Parisien

Le Parisien - YOU

France’s most read daily paid newspaper launched its Reporter Kit powered community site, YOU, in November of 2009.

By tailoring the site exactly to its needs, Citizenside helped Le Parisien grow an active community online, where readers have one single profile with which to comment, vote, and share all content on any Le Parisien site. Le Parisien also uses a custom designed automatic moderation module to post reader contributions as soon as they’re uploaded.

RTL

RTL Eyewitnesses

RTL, the most listened-to radio station in Europe, launched its French Reporter Kit site: RTL Eyewitnesses in 2009. For the first time in France, listeners of a radio station could participate in reporting the news around them.

By using our innovative Call for Witnesses tool online and launching a call on the air, RTL’s newsroom received a flood of images from listeners effected by the freak storm Xythia. Following this great success, RTL has plans to launch a daily radio program based on its listeners contributions.

BFM TV

BFM TV Eyewitnesses

The premiere news TV network in France, BFM TV, launched its Reporter Kit site, BFM TV Eyewitnesses in 2008 with great success. Citizenside helped BFM TV to transform its audience into an active network of reporters, and through a clear site design and effective publicity, BFM TV now receives more video content than any of our other partners. The eagerness of their spectators to be a part of BFM TV made the Reporter Kit a perfect solution for the network.