Belmont alumnus Colin Polidor and his brother Parker Polidor run a business a called Cell Journalist, which connects media outlets with their audience by providing a platform for sharing citizen journalism. The Cell Journalist platform is an integrated turnkey solution that allows users to submit images and videos directly from mobile phones or upload from the media outlet’s website. Features like rate, tag, share, and the contest engine continually drive traffic back to the media outlet’s website.
Recently, Cell Journalist released an iPhone app that will allow each of its clients to have their own branded iPhone app for users to submit images quickly and easily from their iPhones. Clients include E.W. Scripps Company, Raycom Media, Young Broadcasting, GateHouse Media, and several more independent print publications.
Cell Journalist’s technology helped KPLC-TV win the big story during hurricane Ike.