Storyful partners with Google News Lab to power Youtube Newswire

Storyful and Google News Lab are teaming up and launching the YouTube Newswire, a channel dedicated to discovering, verifying and publishing the most newsworthy eyewitness YouTube videos of the day.


The YouTube Newswire will provide journalists with an invaluable resource to discover eyewitness video around major events and highlight YouTube videos that offers new perspectives on important news stories. The Newswire will feature global and regional feeds that surface the most relevant videos in different parts of the world, covering News, Weather and Politics on YouTube.

Storyful has worked with YouTube since 2011 to discover, verify and distribute the most relevant, real-time and compelling videos uploaded to the platform. Storyful and YouTube have previously partnered on CitizenTube, the Human Rights Channel, the UK and US Spotlight channels, multiple international election projects such as YouTube Politics (US Elections 2011-2012) and YouTube UK Elections 2015, Open Newsroom and much more.

YT Newswire can be accessed via youtube.com/newswire, you can follow for real time updates on @YTNewswire on Twitter and subscribe to a daily newsletter via http://bit.ly/1BnV8e1

Google News Lab is also today launching two other initiatives - the First Draft Coalition and the Witness Media Lab that Storyful is a key player in. The First Draft Coalition brings together a coalition of pioneers in social media to create education resources on how to verify eyewitness media. The Witness Media Lab, a follow-on from the Human Rights Channel powered by Storyful, will use Storyful for content, research and production needs.

According to Rahul Chopra, CEO of Storyful, “we are thrilled to be launching the YouTube Newswire together with Google News Lab, a partnership four years in the making. Storyful continues to work with the biggest social platforms, brands and news organizations to surface and curate social content relevant to audiences around the globe.”
 
Olivia Ma, Head of Strategy and Operations for Google's News Lab added: “As events like Arab Spring, protests in Ferguson, and Charlie Hebdo attacks show, the role of eyewitness media on YouTube has never been more important," said Olivia Ma, Head of Strategy and Operations for Google's News Lab. "By leveraging our long history of working with Storyful to launch the YouTube Newswire, we hope to create an indispensable resource for eyewitness video for newsrooms around the world.”