Video and TV delivered to mobile devices such as cell phones and PMPs
Citizen journalists have increased both in number and importance in recent years. And Google is now seeking to bring some order to the chaos of how amateur footage is delivered online with YouTube Direct matching citizen journalists with news media organizations.
Citizen Journalists
There was a time when news coverage was strictly professional, delivered by paid reporters, photographers, and cameramen. And then everything changed with digital cameras and video cameras standard on cellphones.
Now, any Tom, Dick, or Harry can be a citizen journalist, reporting the news as it happens in front of them. Twitter and social networks are an important facet of this trend, as is online video and in particular YouTube.

Twitter has become the darling of social media by keeping things simple, with 140-characters or less messages. Currently, only text and links to external sites are allowed in tweets, but could video messages soon be showing up in the public timeline?
Although live streaming is already big business, there has so far been a dearth of options for the professional Webcaster who wants to stream live events without paying a fortune for a traditional broadcast truck and satellite signal. But no longer, as Livestream has launched Livepack.
Netflix is seemingly everywhere now, at least in the U.S., yet there are actually still many devices the service isn’t available on.

