Wired Journalists

Wired Journalists is one of the many new networking sites popping up on the web. Wired Journalists is mainly an image hosting site that hopes to develop photojournalism online. It's a rather simple site to use - go out into the field, take pictures of events, and upload them to the site. The layout is intuitive and works quickly, so there are rarely problems. As long as you are used to taking pictures, i works quite well. One thing about the layout that could be improved is photo editing: unlike a site like Flickr, which has basic photo editing on the site, Wired Journalists does not - they must be edited before being uploaded.

As for the community of Wired Journalists as a whole, it has the simple problem that it hasn't quite taken off like sites like Flickr or Photobucket. The community is quite small, compared to the followings other image sites have gained - which in turn leads to fewer images being posted. Another problem is just how much of the site is geared towards journalism. While the intention of the site seems to be geared towards newsworthy images, many images on site have little to do with news, as some members seem to disregard the journalistic leanings of the site. Hopefully this can be improved as the community expands, but as of now these problems are hard to reconcile.