YouTube: A Place to Break Television News?

by Victoria Baranetsky
This October Columbia University received national media coverage after students disrupted an on-campus speech being given by Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist. CTV news, the weekly Columbia Television Station, became the only source to obtain video footage of the event and immediately posted its coverage on YouTube.com. The video pioneered YouTube into the realm of an online supplementary news source, after its recent purchase by Google.
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