Last but not least: Journalism school for the citizens of YouTube

Tub Google's video platform YouTube has launched the Reporters' Center online, a kind of video journalism school. The YouTube makers want to encourage amateur filmmakers worldwide to publish their videos online and have already managed to get a number of top US journalists to take part, as Meedia.de writes on Wednesday. Among them are CBS star interviewer Katie Couric and investigative legend Bob Woodward. Woodward is known for uncovering the Watergate scandal for the Washington Post and is considered the epitome of the investigative journalist par excellence. In a five-minute video for the Reporter Center, he recounts some anecdotes from his early days at the Washington Post and encourages young journalists to get to the bottom of things themselves. In addition, Katie Couric from CBS gives some tips on how to conduct a good interview. She became famous during the US election campaign for conducting a series of revealing interviews with Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Other videos by US journalists can be found on the site, as well as how-to-do videos for practitioners. These show, for example, how to send the Reporters Center.
Google explicitly mentions that YouTube also offers news videos from professional cooperation partners. Established media companies such as CBS, the Washington Post and the New York Times participate in this center for You e students. I wonder if the magic formula of journalism has been discovered here: Put a to-do list online for the citizens of You Tube with cell phone cameras?