Google News says that the newly launched  YouTube Direct is "a new tool that allows media organizations to request, review and rebroadcast YouTube clips directly from YouTube users."
I wonder if this tool will lend a new dimension to citizen journalism. Producers of video content now "can reach their own audience while also getting broader exposure [...]

Some news sites have had to contend with the trickle of reader comments that might have been made about them via Google’s Sidewiki.
Sidewiki, as I have written here earlier, is a Google plugin that makes it possible for visitors to share comments on sites, and it has nothing to do with any native comment [...]

Google News has introduced some changes in the sitemap protocol that news sites use to submit sitemaps to it.
Google has introduced three tags - publication - to specify the name and language of the publication publishing the article; genres - to describe the "nature of the article as a comma-separated list chosen from: PressRelease, [...]

The W3C, the international body that formulates web standards, has come up with a set of extended mobile web best practices guidelines, that could prove particularly handy to news sites because of the range of content they deliver to different kinds of mobile devices.
The W3C had come up with a set of guidelines in 2008 [...]