For news, try YouTube

IN Media Watch Briefs | 17/07/2012

YouTube, the Google-owned video sharing website, has become a major platform around the world for news, posing challenges to media organisations. Citing the Pew Research Center report, it said that news related events were the most searched items on YouTube in five months of a 15-month period in 2011 and early 2012. That means that news is rapidly becoming important on the site, which is popularly known for amateur videos of children and pets. (AFP)

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Amazon resisting voluntary censorship

The new term for self censorship is voluntary censorship, as proposed by companies like Netflix and Hotstar. ET reports that streaming video service Amazon Prime is opposing a move by its peers to adopt a voluntary censorship code in anticipation of the Indian government coming up with its own rules. Amazon is resisting because it fears that it may alienate paying subscribers.

Let the games begin

Clearly, the run to the 2019 elections is on. A journalist received a call from someone saying they were from Aajtak channel and were conducting a survey, asking whom she was going to vote for in 2019. On being told that her vote was secret, the caller assumed she wasn't going to vote for 'Modiji'. The caller, a woman, also didn't identify herself. A month or two earlier the same journalist received a call, this time from a man, asking if she was going to vote for the BSP.