How to use Flickr to get creative with your photos

Flickr, the photo sharing site and social network, is probably right behind Wikipedia on the list of social media tools journalists and newsrooms avoid. Journalists have every reason to be wary of uplaoading content to Flickr — without the right controls photos uploaded to the site can be downloaded and used without permission elsewhere on the web.

But there are so many other ways to use Flickr besides uploading photos from the newsroom. Flickr is, after all, a social tool and news media can harness the power of the site to improve the news-gathering process.

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