Jeff Sonderman
Nov. 15, 2012
1:30 pm
BuzzFeed | All Things D | YouTube | Facebook | Washington Post
The Israeli Defense Forces is making aggressive use of social media like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook to document and justify its latest assault on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
BuzzFeed's Matt Buchanan documents how the
@IDFSpokesperson account "
basically declared war on Hamas" and has been tweeting photos and videos of the assault. He writes:
[The IDF's] live-tweeting its assault on Hamas may well be the most meaningful change in our consumption of war in over 20 years. This is something new. (more...)
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Steve Myers
Aug. 10, 2012
12:02 pm
Mashable | The Hollywood Reporter
The Olympics shows how YouTube is shifting from an on-demand video platform
to one aimed at live-streaming newsworthy events, reports Mashable's Sam Laird. About 2.7 million people turned to YouTube to see the U.S. women's gymnastics team win gold and the 200-meter IM race in which Ryan Lochte beat Michael Phelps. YouTube built a new streaming platform for the Olympics, according to Laird. Jason Gaedtke, YouTube’s director of software engineering, tells him:
“We certainly see strong demand in a couple verticals: gaming, sports, news increasingly — anything with a realtime or community-driven aspect to it seems to play well in this format."
In July, PEJ
reported that YouTube has emerged as an important platform for news.
The Hollywood Reporter's Andrew Tyndall focuses on YouTube in addressing
CNN's ratings woes. The Web is CNN's future, he writes:
CNN's lack of ideological turf has harmed it in the ratings war as a cable news channel but helps it online, where video content, not an anchor's politics or tone of voice, is key. CNN's future rival is YouTube, not Fox News. ...
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Steve Myers
Aug. 2, 2012
12:09 pm
TechCrunch | Center for Investigative Reporting
The Center for Investigative Reporting will curate "The I-Files," a new YouTube channel featuring investigative videos from partners such as Al Jazeera, The New York Times, and the 60 nonprofit news organizations that make up the
Investigative News Network.
“The launch of the new investigative YouTube channel, The I Files, in association with INN, reflects CIR's belief that collaboration and partnership are crucial to the sustainability of investigative, public service journalism,” said Robert J. Rosenthal, executive director of CIR. “There is enormous potential in finding new audiences to magnify the impact of all of the partners participating in The I Files.”
PEJ recently
did a study of YouTube's role in news consumption, writing:
The data reveal that a complex, symbiotic relationship has developed between citizens and news organizations on YouTube, a relationship that comes close to the continuous journalistic "dialogue" many observers predicted would become the new journalism online. Citizens are creating their own videos about news and posting them. They are also actively sharing news videos produced by journalism professionals. And news organizations are taking advantage of citizen content and incorporating it into their journalism. Consumers, in turn, seem to be embracing the interplay in what they watch and share, creating a new kind of television news.
The Knight Foundation is providing $800,000 for the project.
To foster video-based student investigative reporting, CIR is holding a contest in which the public will vote on the top 10 videos. The winner will receive $2,500.
Related: News events occasionally outpace entertainment on YouTube
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Steve Myers
July 16, 2012
10:22 am
PEJ | The Washington Post | Storyful
In a new
study about how YouTube has become a major platform for viewing news, Pew’s Project for Excellence in Journalism reports that "at any given moment news can outpace even the biggest entertainment videos," although non-news videos generally rack up more views over time. News events were the most-searched terms on YouTube four of 12 months. The biggest news-related videos
follow the classic viral traffic pattern, rocketing in popularity over a short time and dropping off quickly. Popular entertainment videos have more staying power.
The report describes a complex environment in which citizens and professional news organizations post and share videos alongside one another, without much adherence to the ethical standards that govern TV news.
PEJ Deputy Director Amy Mitchell
tells The Washington Post's Paul Farhi that researchers don't believe YouTube is a substitute for traditional TV news; instead they see it as an emerging way of getting news about the world.
Storyful CEO Mark Little's take, however,
is that YouTube has edged out traditional TV news:
The platform is no longer simply a supplement to the daily news diet. (more...)
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Jeff Sonderman
Mar. 20, 2012
7:25 am
In a Dickens novel, Andrew Kaczynski would be The Ghost of Statements Past — haunting political candidates with visions of years-old contradictions, hypocrisy or embarrassment they would rather forget.
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- Andrew Kaczynski is BuzzFeed’s expert at searching for rare video clips.
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Steve Myers
Sep. 9, 2011
1:43 pm
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Jeff Sonderman
June 1, 2011
11:06 am
Lost Remote
A news anchor in Milwaukee is creating quick, informal video newscasts on his iPhone and sharing them on social networks. The videos focus on weather and headlines, with a behind-the-scenes style that seems to be welcomed by some followers. “While I’m hopeful people are watching our local news on TODAY’S TMJ4, I’m trying to reach out to them in the places they already are,” anchor Vince Vitrano told Lost Remote. The
videos don't get a ton of views, he said, but he's happy with the reaction and interaction.
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Damon Kiesow
Jan. 26, 2011
11:00 am
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Damon Kiesow
Jan. 13, 2011
11:27 am
YouTube
More than 200 million YouTube videos are viewed on mobile devices each day, three times more than a year ago.
The figure was provided by YouTube’s mobile product manager Andrey Doronichev within the context of the video-sharing site’s mobile … Read more
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Damon Kiesow
Jan. 7, 2011
11:27 am
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