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The Center for Investigative Reporting makes color book journalism for kids
There’s been a lot of talk lately about making journalism for different groups of people. Or at least that’s what I overhear. And that’s just what California Watch, a project of CIR, is doing:
It all started with an off-the-wall idea in an editorial meeting. While California Watch articles are written for adults, we recognize that oftentimes children are those most affected by the stories we report.
That’s exactly the case when it comes to our series on seismic safety oversight in the state’s K–12 schools. Thousands of children attend class each day in buildings or schools that have not received final safety certifications from the state’s chief building regulator. Some schools are located close to fault lines or within liquefaction zones.
The article talks a lot about the need for peripheral-reporting, or aiming stories at groups who aren’t, for whatever reason, reading or listening:
One Chinese school director called the books “urgently needed”; a Vietnamese reader said this would be the first time her mother had access to preparedness materials in a language she could understand.
The coloring book is the furthest along of a few ideas that CIR is working on. Another, due to launch this summer, is a YouTube channel that will curate investigative reporting video from the professional journalism world and, very importantly, the unnoticed-but-deserving clan of people who do it but aren’t “professional” yet.
The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) to launch investigative news channel on YouTube, with Knight support
The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) announced today it will launch a new investigative news channel on YouTube that will be a hub of investigative journalism, with $800,000 in support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
CIR, the non-profit investigative reporting organization that has produced numerous award-winning investigations, will curate the YouTube channel, which is expected to launch in July 2012. Journalists will be trained in audience engagement and other best practices for online video. The Investigative News Network (INN) will also be responsible for working with its member organizations to leverage the channel to reach new audiences and increase the amount of earned revenue to subsidize their public interest journalism.
YouTube has always had amazing upload stats. For example, there are 23 or 32 or 45 minutes of video uploaded every minute.
But they just crossed a fun threshold, and created a fun site to announce this fun threshold: Every minute, one hour of video is uploaded to YouTube.
This lets us do fun 1:1 comparisons of minutes to hours and if you visit One Hour Per Second you get an animated HTML5 jamboree of the comparisons they make.
Images: Selected stills from YouTube’s One Hour Per Second Web site. Select any to embiggen.
H/T: Flowing Data.
In 2011, 1 Trillion Videos Were Watched on YouTube.
That’s a lot of kittehs.
Or, as the YouTube Blog calculates it, about 140 views for every person on earth.
The blog has top 10 lists and the details.
A brilliant mock advertising campaign that marries some of our favorite modern technology brands with marketing techniques and art direction from bygone eras.
If you’re a shutterbug, you’re going to love the fact that there’s an entire YouTube channel dedicated to just one tiny part of the photographic experience – the sound of the shutter. Shutterlog encourages users to submit videos of the exact moment when they’re clicking the shutter on their cameras. Putting together an awesome compilation of submissions, with both modern and vintage cameras, Shutterlog have created a rendition made entirely of shutter sounds. As Peta Pixel points out, this isn’t the first example of turning that delightful shutter sound into a cool beat, but it would certainly seem to be the first crowd sourced example. (via Did you know there’s a YouTube channel made up entirely of camera shutter sounds?)
YouTube: Where 48 Hours of Video Uploaded Per Minute Happens
Over on the YouTube blog they’re celebrating their sixth birthday and reveal some remarkable stats: over 48 hours of video are uploaded to the site each minute, and there are over 3 billion views per day.
New Life for Delicious?
Late last year the digerati groaned when an internal Yahoo presentation that hit the Webs indicated the social bookmarking site Delicious would be “sunsetted.”
Many hustled to export their links, migrating to Reddit and StumbleUpon. Others looked for Open Source solutions that would give them a sense of freedom should another company decide to shutter their bookmarking apps as well. (I signed up with freelish.us earlier this month but between Twitter, Tumblr and simply sending items to Evernote don’t feel the need to publicly bookmark that much anymore)
But Delicious might live to see another day once more. YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have bought the service. The question then is what they might do with it.
From the press release:
The YouTube founders plan to work closely with the community over the next few months to develop innovative features to help solve the problem of information overload. “We see this problem not just in the world of video, but also cutting across every information-intensive media type,” said Chen.
Will be interesting to see what they might do with the site. Social bookmarking was very big for some time but got seriously disrupted by the live, organic bookmarking that Twitter’s enabled. Digg’s been hit hard. But then again, StumbleUpon and Reddit claim tremendous growth.
That’s not to say that Delicious needs to explode in order to be successful. It is to say that it’s great that a company is committed to getting behind it and nurturing its community so that it may grow. —Michael
Some YouTubers Top $Million
There’s moneh in them kittehs.
Via the NY Post:
Hundreds of YouTube stars are making more than six figures, and hundreds more are making more than $40,000 a year — roughly the median salary in the US. There are even stars who have topped a million dollars, although the company wouldn’t say how many.
645 million: Associated Press video views on its YouTube channel since 2006.
158 million: MSNBC.com video views in January 2011.
QED: Some say the golden age of video news is now.
You know what’s happening in about 23 minutes or so (8pm EST)?
The premier of the globally crowdsourced, Ridley Scott, Kevin Macdonald and YouTube “Life in a Day” documentary.
A little background: last July, thousands of people around the world filmed moments of their July 24, uploaded clips to the Life in a Day YouTube channel and since then editors have been working in London to put together a feature-length film.
It’s premiering at Sundance this evening. For those of us not wearing the fancy pants, we can watch it on YouTube.
For background on the project and how it all came together, check out the BBC’s Digital Planet.
Obama to be Interviewed by You(Tube)
They’ve done it before and they’re doing it again: YouTube will interview President Obama two days after the State of the Union with questions submitted by users.
Via the Google Blog
President Obama’s responses to a selection of your top-voted questions will be streamed live from the White House on youtube.com/askobama at 2:30 p.m. ET on Thursday January 27.
This interview is the first in a series of world leader interviews coming to YouTube in 2011 as part of YouTube World View. These interviews will give people around the world the chance to engage in conversation with their elected officials and other influential people from the world of business, philanthropy, technology, media and the arts.
Questions can be submitted — and voted on — here.
Last year, documentarian Kevin Macdonald, filmmaker Ridley Scott and YouTube teamed up to begin Life in a Day, a crowdsourced documentary with footage shot around the globe on July 24, 2010.
The finished documentary is set to premier at Sundance later this month.
This video is the first clip released from the over 1,000 used in the film. It was shot by Toniu Xou and Patricia Marinez del Hoyoa of Spain.
Via the YouTube blog.
