AK Voices: Kathleen McCoy

Kathleen McCoy is an electronic media specialist at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She is a former features editor and interactive media editor at the Anchorage Daily News.

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Aimed at citizen journalists

You Tube's Reporters' Center: Experts give reporting, interviewing, storytelling advice in three-minute videos.You Tube's Reporters' Center: Experts give reporting, interviewing, storytelling advice in three-minute videos.
I saw this link to a reporters' channel on YouTube on Sacred Facts, a personal blog by Richard Sambrook, director of BBC global news. I've read that this channel went live Monday; it includes short videos on newsgathering, interviewing and storytelling from some professional pillars in the business: Scott Simon on storytelling, Politifact founder on fact checking, Bloomberg News on how to tell a story well when it's filled with numbers, Katie Couric on interviewing... She's gotten the most hits for her video, 75,000.

Some of the clips would be inspiring to new reporters, but You Tube identifies the audience as citizen journalists trying to figure out how to contribute, post etc.

There's a post Iran-election turmoil video from Huffington Post's Arianna Huffington, making the case that eyewitness reports from the public are here to stay. She cites recent examples, including the 2006 Senate election in Virginia, when a campaign intern videotaped Jim Webb's opponent George Allen making a racial slur. He turned it into a one-minute video on You Tube and changed that election. Or Mayhill Fowler catching Obama's SF quote about folks being bitter and clinging to guns...or the audience member who captured Michael Richards (Kramer) racial outburst from the stage of a comedy club.

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