YouTube has arrived at the letter N as part of its month-long, A-to-Z celebration of its tenth birthday. After spotlight memes like The Harlem Shake and Draw My Life for the letter M, the video site’s Trends Blog has turned to a more serious topic: News. YouTube has created a playlist that shares a selection of its news coverage over the past decade.
The blog post that accompanies the playlist discusses the importance of YouTube’s role as a voice for anonymous filmmakers who need a platform on which to share their videos. In particular, YouTube notes the 2009 shooting of Iranian student Neda Agha-Soltan. Her death was captured by multiple videographers, who uploaded their clips to YouTube, where they were viewed millions of times and ultimately recognized by the George Polk Awards. Warning: The videos shot at that scene are very graphic.
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How will YouTube continue to define future news events? For starters, the site will surely play a big role during the 2016 Presidential election, as it did in 2012. As the YouTube Trends blog post concludes, “This is only the beginning.”
