When a gunman opened fire last month at Florida State University, injuring three people, smart-phone photos taken by students from inside the school's library showed up within minutes on Web sites of major news organizations around the world.
Inside a Midtown Manhattan office, 19-year-old John Meyer worked as the quick-thinking middleman.
Meyer is the founder of Fresco News, a startup that licenses photos from amateur photographers at the center of breaking news events — be they the naming of a new pope in Rome or a school shooting.
Fresco marshals the resources of social media, reaching out to the amateur photographers to get their approval to license the pictures to larger, international news organizations and quickly verifies that the person signing the agreement is who took the photo.
"They're just happy to get their images out there," Meyer told The Post.
The amateur photographers often seek nothing more than getting the work out to a large audience.
Fresco has relationships with large news organizations — Al Jazeera, Business Insider, CBS, Media General and The Washington Post will start trial subscriptions next month — and charges them a monthly subscription fee for access to all the photos on Fresco's Web site.
The young but fast-growing Fresco News has attracted the attention of some venture capitalists who, Meyer said, have expressed interest in investing in the New York company.
A early $5 million funding round is expected to kick off in the spring.
"This we'll use to scale the company very rapidly," Meyer says.
Meyer, who dropped out of New York University after completing his freshman year last May, has provided $40,000 in seed money to get Fresco off the ground.
But now he admits to being in "prime hustle mode" in terms of clients and investors.
Meyer said he turned down a job offer from Apple, despite worshiping — as did his father and grandfather did before him — Steve Jobs.
Meyer maintains a relationship with Apple, however, having created some 40 Apps for the company's Macs, iPads and iPhones as a teen.
His biggest success occurred in June 2010 when, on its new iPhone 4, Apple for the first time included a camera flash on the device.
Within hours, a 16-year-old Meyer had concocted an app that transformed the flash into a flashlight.
Although now a flashlight is a built-in iPhone feature, Meyer's was the first of its kind.
And for the 2 million downloads it generated, its still-tinkering creator collected more than $100,000.
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