YouTube is holding a competition for journalists, as part of its new ‘journalism programme’. The video-sharing website is calling for submissions of a max of three minutes, in English, featuring original content profiling someone in the community that ‘the world should know about.’ .
Technology has fundamentally changed the way we produce, gather, share, and consume news - and thousands of people from every corner of the globe are using YouTube to share important stories with the rest of the world.
Online politics anyone? Way to GO! The Web gives anyone — candidates, advocacy groups, corporate interests and ordinary folks — affordable and powerful tools to mold policy, influence elections and shift the direction of public discourse. Welcome to political prowess in the age of digital dialogues and the wisdom of online communities.
The all important role of the Web is making politicians sit up. So core is the Web to politics today that a certain anxiety pervades the political classes. And it comes