YouTube has announced the launch of a newswire, which will feature the most relevant and accurate eyewitness content and first-person videos. The service will no doubt compete with the live streaming capabilities of existing programmes such as Snapchat and Periscope.
In a blog post YouTube revealed:
“With the Newswire, we hope to provide journalists with an invaluable resource to discover news video around major events, and to highlight eyewitness video that offers new perspectives on important news stories.”
‘Newswire’ will launch alongside ‘The First Draft Coalition’ – a responsible journalism platform – and the ‘Witness Media Lab’, who specialise in cases involving police brutality.
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