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Study: Viewers Turning to YouTube as News Source (AP)
A new study by The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism has found that YouTube is emerging as a major platform for news, one to which viewers increasingly turn for eyewitness videos in times of major events and natural disasters. NPR The center “examined 15 months’ worth of the most popular news videos on the site (January 2011 to March 2012) — some 260 videos in all — by identifying and tracking the five most-viewed videos each week located in the news and politics channel of YouTube, analyzing the nature of the video, the topics that were viewed most often, who produced them and who posted them.”

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