YouTube Launches Reporter’s Center
Another new initiative, following the launch of their recent EDU channel (free university seminars), YouTube just launched reporter’s center channel this week. In the wake of the Iranian’s elections, the world watched Social Media spreading news directly from the streets of Tehran. What if citizen reporters changed the way we send and receive news? What would such direct news feed mean to Mesa and the rest of Arizona journalism?
The new YouTube channel will not only help aspiring reporters to use Social Media as the vehicle to launch a news station, but also serve as educational resources for our local high school/college journalism classes. Do you want to be an investigative reporter? Do you want to start an Internet based news station? Watch Reporter’s Center for free education.
Local TV News Only Deliver Content the Same Way, Can It Change?
I’d love to see a local Phoenix news entirely run on the Internet with refreshing perspectives. I am fairly new to Arizona, but already have found it hard to differentiate the local news from any other ones I used to watch in Las Vegas. From what I can see, in any city, the local TV news is an ultra conservative industry. It dislikes trying unconventional. It’s major taboo for people in the industry to try anything outside the box. The biggest problem I see is that these programs spam people with untargeted commercials every fifteen minutes. But they don’t have to change because enough people will always be watching as long as it can provide fresh news.
People are bombarded today with more choices than they can handle. If all local TV news stations continue reporting contents the same way, soon their viewers will turn to peoplefor better, faster and even more reliable news — there are just way too much clutter to know. We witnessed White House requesting Twitter to not go into maintenance and stay open during the recent Iranian election news, and watched Social Media delivering more accurate and faster news than CNN. The Internet already changed the way news were delivered on paper, now the same change is already affecting television.
Why Do Local TV News Broadcast the Same Way?
It doesn’t matter what city you live in. Local TV news programs broadcast in the same fashion. The same look, music, and types of news because news must cater to the most majority of people. So they stay generic, in fact, as middle as possible in the bell-curve.
People don’t question this style because that’s what they’re used to seeing week after week. But this medium is experiencing the kind of change they’ve never seen before. In fact, more people are turning to other media than television because people eventually get tired of seeing the same content, annoying untargeted commercials and the same journalism.
It’ll be interesting to see the effect this new YouTube channel will have on Phoenix local news. Change is already happening in our neighborhood. What I am trying to say has nothing to do with news stations using Twitters to communicate with the local constituency, but with the way how almost all local TV stations broadcast news.
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