YouTube Launches “Reporters’ Center” to School Citizen Journalists

By Andrew Gauthier 


From TechCrunch
Over the weekend, YouTube launched a new channel dubbed Reporters Center, which it hopes will prove to be a good way to educate existing and aspiring citizen journalists on how to report news in the digital age. The new resource will feature a host of top journalists and media experts sharing instructional videos with tips and advice for better reporting.

So far, there are 34 videos uploaded to the channel, featuring people like Facebook Marketing Director Randi Zuckerberg providing 8 tips on how to maximize distribution of your YouTube video on the social network her brother famously co-created, and folks like CBS News Katie Couric and legendary Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward explaining how to conduct a good interview and how to be an investigative reporter, respectively. More…

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