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YouTube launches channel as memorial to fallen journalists The US-based journalism museum, the Newseum, has joined forces with YouTube and Google to launch a special channel to act as a memorial "to journalists who have died pursuing the truth." According to a posting on the official Google blog announcing the innovation, the channel is aimed at becoming a digital version of the Freedom Forum Journalists Memorial, which is located at the Newseum in Washington and records the names of journalists across the world who have died in the course of their work since 1837. The YouTube channel wants videos that represent the journalists' lives and work. People are invited to submit videos about, and by, killed journalists. People should contact the channel's moderator if they think a person deserves recognition, writes Steve Grove in the Google blog posting. Among the 29 clips already available are two about the death in Afghanistan of Rupert Hamer of the Sunday Mirror (see here and here). There is also the clip - reproduced above - about photographer Robert Capa, the man who took one of the most iconic images of war - the death of a fighter in the Spanish civil war - along with many other pictures of wartime suffering. Sources: ReadWriteWeb/Steve Grove-Google blog/YouTube
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