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Media and citizens meet in the YouTube Reporters' Center
June 29, 2009
This is the first of a series of posts from YouTube's news and politics blog,
Citizentube
.
-Ed.
YouTube
is the biggest video news site on the Internet, and at no time in our site's history was that more apparent than in these last two weeks of the crisis unfolding in Iran. As hundreds of thousands of Iranian citizens took to the streets of Tehran to protest the national elections, the government kicked out foreign journalists, leaving citizens themselves as the only documentarians to the events unfolding there. We've been highlighting many of these videos and keeping track of the latest developments on our YouTube news and politics blog,
Citizentube
.
Though the circumstances in Iran are unique, this isn't the first time that citizens have played a crucial role in reporting on events around the world. Burmese citizens uploaded exclusive video footage to YouTube during the
protests in Myanmar
back in 2007; people in China's Sichuan province documented the devastating and historic
7.8-magnitude earthquake
of 2008 in real-time; and eyewitnesses to the shooting of young
Oscar Grant
by Oakland police forces captured the event on their cell phone cameras and uploaded videos to YouTube for the world to see. Citizens are no longer merely bystanders to world events. Today, anyone can chronicle what they see and participate in the news-gathering process.
Though it's the phenomenon of citizen reporting that YouTube is probably best known for, we also have hundreds of news partners who upload thousands of videos straight to YouTube every day. You can see lots of these on our news page at
youtube.com/news
. Many of these organizations have used YouTube in unique ways, like asking the community to
submit questions for government officials
, providing a
behind-the-scenes look
at traveling with the Obama press corps and accepting video applications for a
reporting assignment in West Africa
. We believe the power of this new media landscape lies in the collaborative possibilities of amateurs and professionals working together.
And so today, we're launching a new resource on YouTube to help citizens learn more about how to report the news, straight from the experts. It's called the
YouTube Reporters' Center
, and it features some of the nation's top journalists sharing instructional videos with tips and advice for better reporting. Learn how to
prepare for an interview
; or how to be an
investigative reporter
from the legendary Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward; or how to
report on a global humanitarian
crisis from Nick Kristof of the New York Times. All of the videos are available on the
YouTube Reporters' Center channel.
Posted by Olivia Ma, YouTube News and Politics
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