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IN PHOTO: A visitor is seen at the You Tube stand during the annual MIPCOM television programme market in Cannes, southeastern France Reuters/Eric Gaillard

Google’s YouTube launched the YouTube Newswire channel that will post videos of the most newsworthy events occurring on a daily basis, according to reports.

According to a report by The Verge, Google will provide "a curated feed of the most newsworthy eyewitness videos of the day," which will allow viewers and journalists find the most relevant footage on YouTube.

YouTube has changed the way news organizations report on any big event and now with the launch of YouTube Newswire, the search engine giant wants to help the media find eyewitnesses videos and make sure they are trustworthy, reports CNET. The publication mentioned that YouTube Newswire collects and scrutinizes eyewitness videos from current events, making it convenient for news organizations to add them to their stories.

The new service is a joint collaboration between Google’s News Lab and Storyful, a News Corp-owned startup that targets at news coming from social media, reports CNET.

Olivia Ma, Head of Strategy and Operations, News Lab at Google said in an official blog post, “Today, more than 5 million hours of news video is watched on YouTube every day, and the role of the eyewitness has never had a more vital place in the newsgathering process.”

Besides the launch of YouTube Newswire, the YouTube official blog also announced the launch of two new projects that would support eyewitness journalism. The ‘First Draft Coalition; project announced by YouTube will be an educational resource for journalists as it will help them to verify eyewitness' videos and take cognizance of the ethics of using them is stories. The other project announced at the same time is YouTube’s partnership with Witness Media Lab that will provide a platform for people to share eyewitness video of human rights atrocities around the world.

According to a report on Tech Times, Storyful has been working with YouTube since a long time and it has verified YouTube videos since 2010, examining over 100,000 videos on YouTube till date.

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