The Youtube blog announced today the start of a new kind of channel: The Reporter Channel.

Touting the media revolution, the channels are for:

• People who tote around their cameras offering “on-the-scene” coverage of local news and events
• Students producing their own weekly newscasts
• Active community members who conduct interviews with local leaders
• Engaged citizens who love providing commentary and analysis on important issues affecting the world at large
• Professional journalists using YouTube as an additional outlet for their work

Is this truly a revolution in democracy? Is it Youtube further monetizing it’s future? I think it has to be satisfy both cultural and economic orders in order to function within the metanarrative netizens use.

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Tags: democratic journalism,netizen,youtube reporter
Categories: Broadcast media
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Microsoft CEO Ballmer lets the Washington Post know how obsolete it is:

 

There will be no media consumption left in ten years that is not delivered over an IP network. There will be no newspapers, no magazines that are delivered in paper form. Everything gets delivered in an electronic form.

 

He identifies not just a change in delivery, but even more devastating to old media, in content. Search is the only game in town. And no newspaper can even compete in that areana.

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Tags: Ballmer,Microsoft video,Washington Post
Categories: Old Media vs New
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