YouTube has been making waves in the news again now that they have launched YouTube Direct.
Aspiring journalists would love this addition since YouTube Direct is a tool to make the process of submitting video clips easier for YouTube users and these clips can be highlighted by news media companies. Among the media companies that have participated in YouTube Direct are the San Francisco Chronicle, the Huffington Post and the Politico.
YouTube’s growth has been astonishing. Every 60 seconds, there is 20 hours worth of videos being uploaded. And a significant number of these uploads are about news and politics – both professional and amateur.
Olivia Ma, news manager of YouTube’s News and Politics team is proud of the birth of the YouTube Reporters Center. This is a resource to help people learn the right ways on how to report news and showcases instructional videos that also give tips and advice on how to report efficiently from well known journalists.
She also shared that YouTube is now becoming a video platform for US congressmen and senators as well. In fact 98 senators and almost 400 congressmen now have their own YouTube pages so that they can easily communicate with their constituents.
At this era of high technology, people are carrying video enabled cell phones and cameras so there are no longer a need for fancy video equipments in order to capture news worthy moments. All you have to do is to shoot, upload the video and you can watch yourself giving the latest news in the Internet at no time at all.
