YouTube's CitizenTube Will be a Breaking News Feed
YouTube's CitizenTube Will be a Breaking News Feed
Posted 06/14/2010 at 1:33pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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YouTube will begin working with the University of California at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism to deliver breaking news in the form of YouTube videos. The so-called CitizenTube has existed for a while now, but this new commitment means the content will be constantly updated with the help of an editorial staff. The editors will also be looking for tips and feedback via twitter.
YouTube's blog post didn't make it clear if the entire endeavor would be human driven, or there would be some automated content selection happening as well. This sort of guiding influence could help make "citizen journalism" more valuable to the general public. Presumably, the folks behind CitizenTube will vet stories before posting them. We expect this feed to be built into YouTube's mobile applications at some point. Would you check this feed during the next big news story, or will traditional media still be more practical?
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bingojubes
June 14, 2010 at 4:18pm
hopefully the quality of uploaded videos will be good. it may prove to be a good tool for local community groups to promote their views and programs. if they regulate it much better than Youtube does their site, then at least it won't be flooded with BART beatings that were recorded off cellphones at close to midnight hours.
or it could end up like the website for The Onion.
Baer
June 14, 2010 at 3:34pm
I will bet that everything will be Bushes fault and Obama will get a pass on everything. Since when has anything that came out of Berkeley been politically balanced?
dmonkyking
June 14, 2010 at 5:01pm
I was thinking the same thing. Isn 't Berkley home to some of the most radical and left leaning people around? Don't we get enough of that in the MSM?
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