Remember all the cell phone videos people made of the Oscar Grant shooting? KGO-TV ABC7 wants to make it even easier for people to submit video they’ve shot themselves. Yesterday, the station and YouTube announced a partnership designed to help people upload their videos. Channel 7 will now be promoting a version of YouTube Direct, called “ABC7 uReport.” ABC7 will feature newsworthy videos during newscasts and online. The place to submit the videos is ureport.abc7news.com.
And just how much will these contributors be paid? I'm sure that KGO isn't just interested in free content.