Storyful Partners with Google News Lab to Power YouTube Newswire

Storyful to also play key role in First Draft Coalition and Witness Media Lab

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- 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://goo.gl/Z8eIO7.

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.

Said CEO of Storyful Rahul Chopra: “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.”

Added Olivia Ma, Head of Strategy and Operations for Google's News Lab: “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.”

About Storyful

Storyful, a division of News Corp, is the first news agency of the social media age. Founded in 2010 and based in Dublin, Ireland, Storyful comprises a team of technologists and journalists across Asia, Europe and the United States who discover, verify, acquire and distribute timely and relevant video and user-generated content to newsrooms, advertisers and brands. Via proprietary technology and journalistic expertise, Storyful provides social media dashboards, real-time discovery tools, feeds and analytics to customers across multiple platforms. Storyful was acquired by News Corp in December 2013.

About Google News Lab

The News Lab at Google is the company's effort to empower innovation at the intersection of technology and media. Our mission is to collaborate with journalists and entrepreneurs to build the future of media with Google. We do this through a global outreach effort to empower technology-driven storytelling in newsrooms; a strong data journalism practice based on our Google Trends platform; and through unique partnerships that seek to increase access to quality information globally.

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