{"id":2912,"date":"2009-11-18T22:36:52","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T05:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=2912"},"modified":"2009-11-18T22:36:52","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T05:36:52","slug":"youtube-launches-open-source-application-for-citizen-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/11\/18\/youtube-launches-open-source-application-for-citizen-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Launches Open-Source Application for Citizen Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CitizenTube\"YouTube<\/em> has built an open-source application called YouTube Direct<\/em><\/a> that allows news organizations to request and accept uploaded videos from citizen journalists anywhere in the world.\u00a0 The idea is to give news organizations the ability to put out a call for videos on a specific news story and then review the direct uploads to select the ones they want to broadcast on their web sites or even over the air.\u00a0 The video creators get to keep their videos on YouTube for access just like any other video on the site.\u00a0 There’s more information available in their Citizen Tube<\/em><\/a> information area.<\/p>\n

The camera in the hands of the average citizen has proven to be an extraordinarily powerful tool for news-gathering over the past few years.\u00a0 Instances of police abuse, natural disasters, and political turmoil have been captured by cell phone cameras all over the world.\u00a0 This seems like a very smart move by YouTube that could have a profound effect on the news.\u00a0 I can see this as a major benefit to smaller start-up news organizations that mostly rely on the web.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen, however, if YouTube makes this widely available to small sites and creative outlets, or if they stick to a larger scale more corporate membership.\u00a0 That would be disappointing, but it would still broaden the availability of citizen journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

YouTube has built an open-source application called YouTube Direct that allows news organizations to request and accept uploaded videos from citizen journalists anywhere in the world.\u00a0 The idea is to give news organizations the ability to put out a call for videos on a specific news story and then review the direct uploads to select […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[298,209],"tags":[515,218,793,57,791],"class_list":["post-2912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-web","tag-journalism","tag-newspaper","tag-tv","tag-video","tag-youtube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t