its profile even further by reaching out to journalists, both professional
and amateur. The first initiative revolves around the opening of a partner
program to all news organisations already accepted into Google News. The
second involves a new Reporters Center at which professional journalists
give advice to working citizen newsgatherers.
The goal of these initiatives is to gear YouTube toward a more
professional audience, making it a resource for hosting journalistic works
and educating budding news reporters about the best methods for
information gathering.
The question is whether news organisations will accept YouTube as a partner.
[...]
How To: Craft an important story
YouTube's other journalistic initiative is the launch of its new
Reporter's Center, which posts videos and guides from top American
journalists.
Some of the current videos in the new channel include CBS News' Katie
Couric explaining how to conduct a good interview, NPR's Scott Simon on
how to tell a good story and The Associated Press Washington bureau chief
Ron Fournier on how to do "watchdog" journalism.
The videos tend to be short, simple guides in laypman's language about how
to report on the news. The videos are no substitute for actual journalism
school, but they provide helpful hints and tricks on how to do reporting.
The videos also include tutorials about how to prepare captured footage
for use on YouTube and upload it to the site. As for the videos in the
Reporter's Center itself, they originally came from the accounts of the
various organisations and journalists that they are linked to, making the
Center more of a centralised location for this information. What's unique,
according to the initial announcement, is that this Center is not just for
one-way communication, that the reporters involved will be accepting and
responding to comments from the public.
More at
http://www.ejc.net/magazine/article/top_journalists_give_tips_on_youtube/
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