short reads | Apr 17, 2014

Five findings about digital video news

News audiences are watching more digital news video than ever before and newsrooms are investing in creating more video content.

report | Jul 27, 2012

YouTube as a Major Platform for News Videos

Amy Mitchell, Deputy Director of the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, answers questions about PEJ's report on the emergence of YouTube as a major platform for viewing news.

report | Jul 16, 2012

YouTube & News

News is becoming a major part of what Americans watch on YouTube. In the last 15 months, a third of the most searched terms on the video sharing site were news related. A new study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism explores the character of news on YouTube.

report | Sep 2, 2010

Candidates and Their Supporters Use YouTube Videos to Appeal to Religious Voters

Some subtle references to religion have cropped up in YouTube videos posted by or on behalf of several candidates this election season. James Lankford, a first-time candidate for office who ran a Baptist youth camp for 13 years, won the Republican nomination for Oklahoma’s 5th congressional district after the primary runoff on Aug. 24, as […]

report | Jun 25, 2008

Anthropology of YouTube

The Library of Congress invited Michael Wesch to deliver the third of four "Digital Natives" lectures. Wesch, creator of the world-famous YouTube video, "The Machine is Us/ing Us," presented the "Anthropology of YouTube" to a packed, fascinated ...

report | Jan 4, 2008

Obama’s YouTube moment

Barack Obama makes an early play for "YouTube moment of the 2008 campaign"

report | Nov 29, 2007

Immigration Takes Center Stage at GOP YouTube Debate

In a format the public says it prefers -- "regular people," not journalists, posing the questions -- immigration emerged as the hot-button issue. Were the candidates' answers in sync with GOP voters' opinions?

report | Aug 24, 2007

YouTubers meeting lens to lens

There's a lot of ongoing discussion in the internet research world about how often relationships initiated online end up evolving into offline, in-person meetings.

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