Pew: YouTube Represents New Kind Of “Visual Journalism” Consumers may think of YouTube as the go-to place for watching funny cats, wannabe stars in the making or music videos, and Google may be pushing YouTube as a destination for original content, TV and movies, but a new study from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism says that YouTube is also serving another purpose these days: it’s a news outlet. The report goes so far as to dub this content, largely user-produced, as a “new kind of visual journalism.” The report cited the earthquake in Japan as one example of this trend in action, saying that in the week following, the 20 most news-related videos on the site were all focused on the event, and totalled 96 million views between them.
Most of the footage was captured by citizens, and in some cases, news outlets had scooped up the user-gen footage and incorporated it into their own reports. Some of the highlights from the study (see below), show how different YouTube “news” is from traditional TV news. Facebook Didn't Kill Digg, Reddit Did. Where's Your Target Audience? A Lesson in Social Media Demographics [Infographic] Current Trend In Social News Website Design. Trends don’t happen overnight. It is the gradual process of change in an industry that initiates new trends silently. We might not notice the “new” trends in an industry unless they actually become new trends.
I covered the trends behind hotel web designs just because I could see a pattern emerging amongst all the well known hotel web designs. Nowadays, community based news sites have become very common. Such sites push the end user to share news and vote for news articles that are worth it. Digg lost its fan following but Reddit is still killing it. From The Archives - While you are here, don’t forget to check 45 Best Social News Websites To Garner More Traffic that we did on 1WD a long time back.
What is a Social News Website? Well, everyone is fully aware of Digg, right? Social News Websites are link generators to be precise. Read - Pligg: A Social Network Content Management System that can be used to launch your own Social News Website. Reddit Slashdot Design Newz StumbleUpon Conclusion. Google News - Search and personalize the world's news.
7 Citizen Journalism Websites For Crowdsourced News. Citizen journalism in the simple sense is news collected and published online by people like you and me. We aren’t reporters by any stretch, but citizen journalism websites gives us an opportunity to speak as interested observers. It is freedom of speech without any censorship in its unadulterated sense.
Citizen journalism as first witness accounts or even as second hand reporting has gained credibility thanks to many media channels. The common man as a commentator or a reporter also goes where walking-the-beat journos sometimes can’t. Now Public A multimedia news site with 5 million readers puts it in the top bracket of citizen journalism news coverage. CNN iReport CNN iReport is an example of a mainstream news media company that’s also tapping into the power of citizen journalism. Digital Journal You will be known as a Digital Journalist and you will be paid (by way of a share in ad revenues) for your contributions. All Voices Newsvine Wikinews Demotix Image Credit: Shutterstock.
Chime.in. Digg. Reddit. 45 Best Social News Websites: Get More Traffic. Here is an article that I have, a compilation of the best social news websites that you can find on the internet. Oh wait, have you ever heard of social news? Let me give you first an overview about this thing. Social news refers to websites that are very much in the trend of online community today, wherein users visit these sites to submit and vote on the news, stories, media such as images or other links posted on the site. Basically, these social news websites that I am talking about here does one thing: to attract. Not only these give quick access with different contents, you can also connect yourself with the discussions on every topics posted. You can see a lot of social news websites on the internet. 1. Digg is a social news website that is founded by Kevin Rose. 2. Reddit is owned by Condé Nast Digital and the users of this social news website are called redditors, sounds cool huh?
3. Designbump is a social news website that is dedicated for designers. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.