August 18, 2009 05:49 AM UTC

YouTube's journalism primers

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• by: Canines

There has been discussion on ColoradoPols previously about how bloggers can better fill the journalistic void caused by the loss of daily newspapers. Lately, YouTube has been producing videos designed to better educate citizen journalists:

http://www.youtube.com/reporte…

As one web site (http://www.ejc.net) puts it:

YouTube’s other journalistic initiative is the launch of its new Reporter’s Center, which posts videos and guides from top American journalists.

Some of the current videos in the new channel include CBS News’ Katie Couric explaining how to conduct a good interview, NPR’s Scott Simon on how to tell a good story and The Associated Press Washington bureau chief Ron Fournier on how to do “watchdog” journalism.

The videos tend to be short, simple guides in laypman’s language about how to report on the news. The videos are no substitute for actual journalism school, but they provide helpful hints and tricks on how to do reporting.

Just checked out a decent short video on fact checking, myself.

Hope YouTube helps you, too.