Agence France-Presse has bought 30 percent of the citizen journalism platform Scooplive, which will be renamed Citizenside.

AFP will not be a part of making editorial decisions for the site, which allows users to publish and sell video and photos for commission, Journalism.co.uk reported Thursday.

The investment is aimed at getting AFP “closer to readers,” Journalism.co.uk reported. “This is for us a purely commercial and technical experiment in the Web 2.0 field, to help our clients, mainly in the media field,” said Pierre Louette, AFP chairman.

The French firm IAM matched AFP's investment, and the remaining shares will continue to be held by the platform's creators.