Yahoo News Adding Amateur Video and Photos?
Perhaps in a bid to become the YouTube of News, or further enhance its social media reputation beyond search and sharing, Yahoo News may be launching a new Video & Photos Upload service for breaking news stories by citizen journalists.
Yahoo News is beginning an initiative which hopes to mobilize the video cell phones and digital handicams of the world into a new citizen journalism powered Yahoo News Video project. Yahoo, which according to Red Herring, was inspired by the amateur video which covered the London bombings last year.
A source told Red Herring:
“A small plane crashes near a beach. By the time the news reporters get there, the plane is under 50 feet of water and the pilot swam safely ashore.
“Chances are very good that someone on that beach has a video camera and recorded that event as it happened.”
The new Yahoo News Video project is rumored to launch before the end of June and may be an extension of the new Yahoo Video, which allows for amateur video uploading, sharing and tagging.
