By the time news photographers got to the scene of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh’s murder, the victim’s body had been covered. Fortunately for Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, Aron Boskma—just some guy with a camera-equipped cell phone—happened to be passing by and snapped a picture of the body with a knife protruding from it. The newspaper was the only one to carry a photo of the body.

There’s nothing new about amateurs selling pictures or video to the media, but these were limited to amateurs who happened to have a camera or video recorder. Now that the device is built into the common cell phone, we can expect to see a lot more photos in the media taken on-scene by passers-by.

From Wired News