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Citizenside's goal is to create the largest online community of amateur and independent reporters where everyone can share their vision of the news by uploading photos and videos for fellow reporters to see. If you have an interesting news-related image or video, Citizenside will contact media outlets on your behalf and offers you a much higher percentage of the sales price than those offered by traditional agencies (up to 65%). Citizenside was created in 2006 by three young associates passionate about the news (two cousins and a friend!) whose complementary experience offers you the best representation when it comes to selling your content.

In November 2007, Agence France-Presse (AFP), the 3rd largest news agency in the world, and the IAM company became shareholders in the Citizenside agency (formerly Scooplive). Primary shareholder of the IAM company and ex-CEO of France Televisions, Xavier Gouyou-Beauchamps, then became president of Citizenside.

Julien Robert

Director of the Information Systems

Julien Robert (also known as "The Brain") is a co-founder and CTO. Julien has an engineering degree from SUPINFO Paris and an MSc in Web Technologies from Oxford Brookes University. He created and developed the Citizenside website from A to Z.

Philippe Checinski

Finance and Accounting Director

Philippe Checinski (also known as "Phil Goldfingers") is a co-founder and CFO. While working in marketing and finance before forming Citizenside, Philippe developed the skills of an outstanding negotiator. He is responsible for ensuring that Citizenside users get the highest possible price for their uploaded images and videos.

Olivier Corgeron

IS Manager - Application Architect - Developer

Olivier Corgeron is Citizenside’s lead developer. A fellow graduate of SUPINFO, he coordinates with Julien Robert to further develop the Citizenside website and those of its partners. Nothing slows down this techie on the cutting edge!

Nicolas Filio

Editor-in-Chief

Nicolas Filio is the Editor-in-Chief at Citizenside. A CFJ graduate, he worked for the media analysis TV program "Arrêt sur images", the eco-friendly magazine Terra Eco and the first French daily newspaper 20 Minutes. He strongly believes that journalists and their audiences should work together to create better news coverage. But please stop calling at 2am!

Guillaume Lafargue

Developer - Linux adminstrator

Guillaume Lafargue (aka "GNU Guilux"), is a Developer and Olivier Corgeron's right-hand man. Armed with double masters’ degrees in network engineering and image processing, he also brings his knowledge of the open source world to help develop the Citizenside website.

Anne-Elyse Gauthier

Journalist

Anne-Elyse started her career working for AFP and Metro before completing her training in Dublin and London, where she left a bit of her heart. Once back in France after years of travelling, she fell in love with the web while working for Dailymotion. She is now part of the Citizenside team, assisting Nicolas Filio to run the Citizenside.com site and validate images and info.

Alexia Tanguy

Web Designer

Alexia Tanguy joined Citizenside's graphics team to lend a hand to Marie-Anne. Specialized in visual communication since high school, she has diversified her skills with web training, which allows her to work across design and integration.

Daniel Gutierrez

Project Manager

Daniel Gutierrez joined the team in January 2012 as a project manager. Armed with a masters degree in web publishing, Daniel has worked for media outlets (radio, and the press), and in numerous communications departments. His role is to centralize the needs of Citizenside's developers, editors, sales team, and clients, then set the development schedule so everyone gets what they need.

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