International. Due to the possibility of finding a large number of videos about news events, both from the media and from people who record them with their mobile phone, the Youtube video portal is postulated as an important news medium that will grow more and more in content and consultation.
This is one of the conclusions of the study conducted by the Pew Research Center, called the Project for Excellence in Journalism. According to the report, although the audience for TELEVISION newscasts is high, users consult Youtube as a new form of video journalism.
The study was based on the analysis of the 15 most watched news videos in the last 15 months. A third of the most viewed videos correspond to those sibidos to the portal by ordinary people and the rest corresponded to professional media videos.
According to Amy Mitchell, who participated in the conduct of the study, "Youtube is a way in which the relationship between news organizations and citizens is more dynamic and multiverse than what we have seen before on other platforms."
The Project for Excellence in Journalism was carried out in January 2011 and March 2012, a period in which it was possible to identify that the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that occurred in Japan at the beginning of last year as the most sought after news event and seen on the portal, and the videos were from surveillance cameras, the mobile phones, media and government of that country.
