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YouTube Adds a Video Channel for Citizen Journalists
youtube.com — CNN, BBC, MSNBC, Reuters .. almost every mainstream media outlet is now encouraging public (aka ‘citizen journalists’) to send in photos and videos of news events that happen in their locality. Now YouTube has also entered the fray.
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- BarbaraKolbe, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1Wow. News editors. Who woulda thunk that's wise to do..!
- rveep, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1Interesting typeface and design.. kinda "comrade news" like. Report on your neighbors?
- jcorn1, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1Folks, do some searches online and think of this: without citizen reporters, people have often depended on their television sets for news and the supposed news was FED to the reporters so that it wasn't even close to the truth. Check it out, NY Times and other media covered that, exposing it. Yet, major stations reported news on faith from these "reputable" (not) sources. Could this happen with Citizen Reporters? Yes but there is potential for good, too. News that goes beyond the national to the local stuff - bringing it to the world!
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