Launched in October, Skoeps takes current affairs mobile phone videos and photographs from eyewitness snappers via MMS or the web, packaging them in an online media player. Claiming a million monthly page views, the site sells the highest-quality captures to mainstream print and broadcast media partners - and is now eyeing international expansion.

"We will launch a pilot in four African countries later this spring," Skoeps vice-president Hidde Kross told Journalism.co.uk, adding the project was a joint venture with other partners. "We have found great partners in Belgium and Germany, where we plan to start this summer. In other countries, including the UK, we have started talks with relevant companies and, of course, we're open to anyone who wants to know more about it."

Kross would not reveal the destinations in the Africa roadmap, though a report from last week's Blogonomics event in Holland suggested Mozambique, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa might be in the frame. http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/story3314.shtml