YouTube Gets Serious About News

Over the weekend, YouTube made a couple news-oriented announcements. It would appear that the site is looking to become more of a resource for news content than ever before, and that means news from established publishers as well as amateurs.

Publishers Invited to Become YouTube Partners

YouTube and Google News have started an initiative to make it easier for news publishers to share their video content and gain bigger audiences for it. The two sites are now inviting "professional news outlets" that are already included in Google News to YouTube News page, where  news videos that are related to top stories on Google News are featured. If a publisher chooses to make their videos embeddable, they can also appear on Google News, which as Google points out, means added exposure discussed in the past, this can be a great way to see how viewers are interacting with videos.

The YouTube Reporters' Center

YouTube has launched a new resource for citizen reporters called the