The birth of the camera phone happened on June 11th, 1997...

The birth of the camera phone happened on June 11th, 1997 when Phillippe Kahn used to a cell phone to send a picture of his newborn daughter to more than 2,000 people around the world. There was no proper device known as a camera phone before this, so Kahn hacked together a digital camera and a cell phone in order to send the photos in real time. Kahn later began LightSurf, a company that was hugely influential in picture messaging. LightSurf technology is still being used by Sprint, Verizon, and many other major carriers around the world. Today is an age of instant information. With a reach into most peoples pockets, they have instant access to world, local, and personal news; a tool to capture memories, and share them with friends, or†¦show more content†¦On the August 25th, 2012 Alex Nott was leaving a coffee shop outside of the Empire State Building, while on holiday from his home in the United Kingdom. As he was leaving the coffee shop, he noticed the sound of pops and people beginning to run, when he saw police gun down a man who had shot and killed his former employer, who was exiting the Empire State Building. Nott reached for his phone and began filming the aftermath of what he had just witnessed and then uploaded his perspective on what had just happened through the CNN iReport App, along with hundreds of other CNN iReporters. CNN was able to use the footage and later interview Nott on what he had witnessed and create a story about the incident. With the push of a button and being in the right (or wrong) place at the right (again†¦ or wrong) time, the media has given the power of journalism to the people. Anyone with a smart phone can essentially become a reporter. Now, whether this style of reporting is truly journalism is debatable, but that goes for mainstream media as a whole in this day and age. So does it take a college degree and an expensive camera to be a photojournalist? Two war photographers, in the same conflict, using two different mediums of photography to tell their extremely similar stories; David Guttenfelder and Erin Trieb. Guttenfelder used a â€Å"Polaroid† filter app with an iPhone to