YouTube Extends CitizenTube Concept With Local News Channel Deal

It's long been a staple of citizen journalism, but YouTube has signed a deal with a local news station in San Francisco to enable people to submit their own video reports and photos. It's a little bit of crowd-sourcing, a little bit of outsourcing, and it probably keeps the station's costs down. So, win-win.

ABC7 News has called the scheme uReport, and it invites locals to send in videos of anything they think needs fixing, or they've got a gripe about. Videos of the Bay Area weather, as well...