Yahoo! Inc., in partnership with Reuters Group Plc, is inviting the public to contribute eyewitness photos and videos of news events, reports Reuters.

Starting on Tuesday, contributors can submit photos to Yahoo's "You Witness" news contribution system via a link off of the main page of Yahoo News or to Reuters at reuters.com/youwitness.

Yahoo plans to run selected images contributed by users as part of topical packages on Yahoo News, which currently offers news from dozens of professional news organizations including Associated Press, CNN and Reuters.

Reuters will edit and distribute selected photos to other news outlets. Yahoo and Reuters are working out a plan to compensate contributors when their images are selected for commercial syndication, the two companies say.

"There is already a lot of quality amateur journalism being created by our users," Scott Moore, head of news and information at Yahoo Media Group, told Reuters' reporters. "Yahoo needed a more efficient process for soliciting and publishing user-contributed photos and video."

Yahoo may expand the You Witness system to sports, entertainment and other sections of its site, a spokesman told Reuters. The company may also expand the initiative to include user-submitted text stories.

Back in August, CNN partnered with Blip.tv, an internet media company that hosts and distributes web-based TV shows and videoblogs, to solicit newsworthy user-generated video. CNN does not pay for contributions, however, nor does it syndicate them.