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YouTube forays into journalism with eye witness video initiatives

YouTube is tiptoeing towards journalism and announced three initiatives to help with the discovery and verification eyewitness news videos on the platform. "We live in a world where anyone can bear witness to what is happening around them and share it with a global audience, and YouTube has become a primary home for this powerful, first-person documentary footage," YouTube said on its blog. The first initiative is called YouTube Newswire which is a curated feed of the newsworthy eyewitness videos verified by a team of editors from social news agency Storyful. The Newswire will feature global and regional feeds that surface and feature the most relevant videos in different parts of the world. YouTube had earlier partnered with Storyful in 2011 during the Tahrir Square protests in Egypt. Viewers can follow them on Twitter and subscribe to newsletters from YouTube Newswire. The second initiative is the First Draft Coalition and will bring together experts from Eyewitness Media Hub, Storyful, Bellingcat, First Look Media's Reported.ly, Meedan, Emergent, SAM Desk, and Verification Junkie. First Draft will develop a website for verification and ethics training, tools, research, and case studies around the news stories. YouTube added that the site will be live this fall. YouTube has also partnered with The WITNESS Media Lab to produce a series of projects that focus on human rights from the perspective of those who live, witness, and experience them. The first project from The WITNESS Media Lab will explore the impact of eyewitness videos in bringing justice in police brutality cases in…

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