Showing posts with label citizen reporting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label citizen reporting. Show all posts

Egyptian protest footage on YouTube

thumbnail It’s been hard to open a laptop or turn on the television over the last week without hearing news of the unrest in Egypt. On YouTube, thousa...

Explore the Life in a Day video gallery

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On July 24, people around the world made history by capturing glimpses of their lives on camera and submitting the videos to Life in a Day ,...

Five Years After Hurricane Katrina

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Five years ago today, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast region, crashing through the levees that held the waters of the Miss...

Share your reflections on Hurricane Katrina, five years later

thumbnail Five years ago, on August 29, Hurricane Katrina began battering the Gulf Coast region, destroying homes, schools and businesses, and submerg...

Lock and Load: It's Life in a Day

thumbnail What are you doing today? Something routine like cooking breakfast or taking the dog for a walk? Or is it something extraordinary like your ...

You Report: What’s happening now in the Bay Area?

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Though YouTube is a global site, it’s often local videos that are most relevant to your life. When people use camcorders and mobile phones ...

Protecting yourself, your subjects and your human rights videos on YouTube

thumbnail Last week we started a blog series with WITNESS, a human rights video advocacy and training organization, highlighting the role that online...

Art Imitates Life: Re-enacting Prop 8 Trial on YouTube

thumbnail In its January 13, 2010, ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the public broadcast of the proceedings in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, a U.S. D...

Neda Soltan and the power of human rights video

thumbnail A year ago this weekend, Tehran erupted in protest at the disputed results of Iran’s tenth presidential election. In the severe government c...

Five YouTube Reporters win $10,000 journalism grants from Project: Report

thumbnail They documented college dining hall workers , teens struggling with cancer , and doctors treating the poor. Through Project: Report, a jour...

Project: Report takes over the Screening Room, enters final round

thumbnail Project: Report is an annual contest that celebrates some of the best work being done by aspiring journalists on YouTube.  Journalism, like...

Project: Report Round 2 Begins, Semi-Finalists Announced

thumbnail All of the entries for Round 1 of Project: Report are in, and a panel of judges from the Pulitzer Center have chosen the top 10 semi-finali...

Iraqi Voices: Voter Perspectives on Election Day

thumbnail On Sunday, despite as many as 100 bomb blasts throughout the country, according to news reports , Iraqi citizens flocked to the polls in hig...

Videos of the 8.8 Earthquake in Chile and the Aftermath

thumbnail A massive earthquake measuring 8.8 on the richter scale shook Chile at 3:34 a.m. on Saturday morning, waking most people in the middle of th...

Live, and Taking Your Questions: Health Care Summit on YouTube

thumbnail While some people are calling it the most important political event of the year and others deem it political theater , one thing is clear: ...

Five Days Left to Submit in Round 1 of Project: Report

thumbnail The deadline is quickly approaching in the first round of Project: Report 2010 , a journalism contest done in partnership with the Pulitzer ...

New Protest Videos Flood YouTube on Anniversary of Iranian Revolution

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Hundreds of fresh protest videos from Iran are appearing on YouTube today, as pro-reform protesters take to the streets in Tehran on the 31s...

Project: Report 2010 – Sharing Your Stories With the World

thumbnail Today, in partnership with the Pulitzer Center, YouTube presents Project: Report 2010 , a journalism contest – made possible by Sony and In...

YouTube's All-Access Pass to Davos

thumbnail For the past three years at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, YouTube has partnered with WEF to give YouTube users the chance ...

Gripping Videos, Calls for Help, Dominate YouTube in Wake of Haitian Tragedy

thumbnail In the three days since the 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti, we've continued to see hundreds of thousands of people using YouTube to ...

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