OhmyNews International

OhmyNews International is an innovative Korean Internet Publishing concept. Let's look at an recent example.

I was the only New York Times photographer in Thailand (I'm not even a staff photographer) I'm just a freelance photographer working for them for the first time. I mean, they used my Indonesian photos from my Web site before but those were just my stock photos so it doesn't mean I really worked with them before.

This was the first time and I was amazed at how well they treated me, I ended up staying there for 24 days. There were four different writers who rotated in [over the course of the month] -- they would say, "A new writer is coming -- can you stay there?"[The New York Times had] one staff photographer and one freelance photographer in Sri Lanka and Indonesia and maybe India, I don't know.

But in Thailand it was just me with the writers coming in, saying, "We're doing a story together now." So I was running around a lot. I was driving along the coast every day from Phuket to Panah, and I'd look the beach and devastation everyday, wondering if the tsunami would come back.

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