YouTube has announced a contest for aspiring documentarians and journalists to take home $10,000 for creating a series of journalistic pieces to go towards beefing up their “reporter” content selection. This isn’t the first thing they’ve done to emphasize their efforts to grow this sector of the service. A quick catalog of the recent posts to the YouTube company blog shows that almost exactly half of the last 20 posts concern something to do with citizen journalism on YouTube.
They’re definitely making a valiant effort to appear pro-journalism and pro-citizen reporting. Everyone
I’ve got a feeling it’s the latter, and I sat down to analyze this, one of the more serious moves to encourage journalism on the site, to gain some insight as to what they’re thinking. They announced it earlier Tuesday on the YouTube blog: Read more on Mashable….
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