Some of the biggest news stories of recent times have played out on YouTube—we’ve been transfixed by
citizen-uploaded footage coming out of the Middle East, gained unique perspectives on natural disasters thanks to
on-the-spot reporting and
security cameras, and seen
citizens document elections via video to ensure fair process. This growing volume of news-related video has contributed to the now 72 hours of content uploaded to YouTube every minute.
In this age of abundant content and short attention spans, thoughtful analysis and rigorous reporting is more important than ever before. That’s why we’re so pleased that investigative reporting now has a new home on YouTube—The I Files. Curated by the Center for Investigative Reporting with funding from the Knight Foundation, The I Files will be a hub and community for investigative journalism on the web, showcasing reporting that digs deep into stories, gives background to complex issues, and reveals details that help us make better sense of our world.
Contributors to The I Files include such luminary media outlets as
The New York Times,
BBC,
ABC News and
Al Jazeera, and organizations like the
Investigative News Network and their member non-profit news organizations like the
Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, the
Center for Public Integrity, and the
Investigative Workshop at American University.
Subscribe to youtube.com/ifiles to get the best of online investigative journalism delivered to you as it happens.