YouTube launches citizen journalism channel – Citizen News

May 20th, 2008Posted by Oliver Luft in Citizen journalism

Have to admit this had passed me by (so thanks to ReadWriteWeb for the point) at launch, but YouTube has unleashed on the world a channel specifically for citizen journalism called…wait for it…Citizen News.

It has also hired a news manager to oversee the whole affair. Here she is:

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