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The Podium

Monday, July 16

YouNews

By Brad

Jake Coyle of the Associated Press (via The Huffington Post) highlights a new report from Pew that finds streaming service YouTube is graduating from goofy videos to a source for news:

[Pew’s report] found that while viewership for TV news still easily outpaces those consuming news on YouTube, the video-sharing site is a growing digital environment where professional journalism mingles with citizen content.

“There’s a new form of video journalism on this platform,” said Amy Mitchell, deputy director of the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. “It’s a form in which the relationship between news organizations and citizens is more dynamic and more multiverse than we’ve seen in most other platforms before.”

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