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You Filmed Something Newsworthy. Here's How to Actually Get Paid for It.

Published on 19th June 2026

Filmed something newsworthy? News channels pay for eyewitness video — but if you post it publicly first, the exclusivity (and your payday) is gone. Sell-It.Media flips the old lose-lose: send us your footage before it's shared, we verify it, newsrooms bid, and you get paid. The person who shot the moment finally earns from it. Here's how it works ? sell-it.media

How to Sell Video Footage to News Organizations: The Complete 2026 Guide

Published on 15th June 2026

A complete, balanced guide to selling your video footage to news organizations - what counts as newsworthy, your selling options, what footage is worth, rights and how to get paid fast.

The Belfast Riots Were the Top Story in the UK. One Camera Saw Them First.

Published on 11th June 2026

When Belfast erupted, the night's most valuable footage was already shot - by an eyewitness on the scene, hours before the TV crews arrived. The eyewitness layer is the gap in every newsroom's coverage. Sell-It.Media turns the frantic scramble for verified footage into a marketplace: find the clip, win the bid, run the story.

How can journalists trust ‘eyewitness video’?

Published on 9th March 2026

BBC Verify’s four-step process for authenticating eyewitness video highlights the growing challenge of verifying footage from social media in the age of AI fakes and misinformation. This article explains how newsrooms verify viral videos and why a new model is emerging. Sell-It.Media verifies eyewitness footage at source, giving journalists trusted, authenticated video with verified creators, clear rights and raw files before it reaches the newsroom.

Everyone Has a Camera Now. That Was the Easy Part.

Published on 12th May 2023

We called them Pocket Journalists in 2023. That revolution is over — it won completely. And winning created a problem nobody was expecting.