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Amanda GreenCOM 300 Spring 09
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• Can news find a home on YouTube?
• What can YouTube provide that CNN cannot?
• What are traditional media corporations doing to keep up?
• Why is Civic Journalism a problem?
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• Morris Jones – Nieman Reports
• Will News Find a Home on YouTube?
• “…online amateur video is likely to remain as generally pointless as the home pages and blogs that preceded it.”
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•Popular media views are three times that of “news”
categories.
•Britney Spears has been viewed more times than
Barack Obama
•What do audiences really want?
•Charlie
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•YouTube is ranked 6th in number of visits in the 3 years the site http://www.quantcast.com/ has been tracking web traffic.
•CNN is 27th
•The New York Times site doesn’t even make the top 50
•Where has the news gone?
•What is filling its shoes?
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•Does YouTube have the potential to fill the news hole left by dying newspaper companies and struggling traditional media in a time of digital transition?
•How has “on-demand” news and entertainment changed what information has become important to us?
•Is the overwhelming popularity of entertainment media an obstacle for us to remain engaged, democratically responsible citizens?
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