Steve Harvey {Steve Harvey is joining ABC's "Good Morning America" as a contributor}

The T.V. news world is all abuzz after news broke that Steve Harvey will be joining ABC’s “Good Morning America” as a contributor beginning Wednesday, August  19.

Some professional journos have even argued that Harvey took a job from an unemployed journo, and others have argued that Harvey is simply a celebrity contributor in the vain of Mo Rocca on CBS Sunday Morning and D.L. Hughley on the short-lived “D.L. Hughley Breaks The News.”

Harvey is expected to contribute a series of reports on a variety of topics including relationships and parenting.

He’s also expected to interact with viewers via ABCNews.com and with Skype.

Harvey Skyed in to a Disney event at the National Association of Black Journalists annual Career Fair and Convention in Tampa back on August 6.

Harvey also collaborates on a project with ABC’s parent company Disney called “Disney’s Dreamers Academy.”

St. Pete Times media reporter Eric Deegans asks does Harvey’s hiring even matter?

Google's YouTube has started a new feature called YouTube Reporters' Center.

Yesterday, Google launched a new outlet as part of it’s video sharing site YouTube called “YouTube’s Reporters’ Center: Helping You Report The News”.

Who some might ask, is it helping? The site seems geared towards helping citizen journalists learn to report all on their own with Katie Couric breaking down the keys to a good interview or Bob Woodward talking about investigative journalism. Yes, the basics you often learn in J-School or in a communications program.

At the same time many of us working journos could only aspire to have the careers of the site’s illustrious teachers, so a lesson about the basics tinged with some real life experiences might help the pros as well.

So am I a little naive in thinking that a working journo benefit could benefit from the site, are the tips the professionals?

See for yourself, check out the site and come back here and tell us what you thought of YouTube’s new feature.

{Thanks, faraichideya.com}

Aspiring journalists are often told in this day and age that they should be able to work across platforms.

For T.V. journalists the idea of a one man band comes to mind, though one man band reporters or producers are now called content creators, or producers.

Still, what this new title dictates is that one should be able to do it all write a print style story, or blog, record an audio podcast, upload a video, or create a picture slideshow.

Names such as Roland Martin are tossed about as examples, but before there was Roland there was Farai.

She was ahead of the curve, part of the first wave of journalists who learned to do it all from writing for magazines, to starting a website, to reporting for T.V., and then for radio.

Check out what Farai told me about her career in journalism.

Also check out her latest venture, her first novel entitled, “Kiss the Sky” about a black rock star. Yeah you read right we had a hand in that too, think Jimi Hendrix. Though I didn’t ask her this, I’m quite sure the title is homage to Hendrix who had an album entitled “Kiss the Sky”.

Aspiring journalists are often told in this day and age that they should be able to work across platforms.

For T.V. journalists the idea of a one man band comes to mind, though one man band reporters or producers are now called content creators, or producers.

Still, what this new title dictates is that one should be able to do it all write a print style story, or blog, record an audio podcast, upload a video, or create a picture slideshow.

Names such as Roland Martin are tossed about as examples, but before there was Roland there was Farai.

She was ahead of the curve, part of the first wave of journalists who learned to do it all from writing for magazines, to starting a website, to reporting for T.V., and then for radio.

Check out what Farai told me about her career in journalism.

Also check out her latest venture, her first novel entitled, “Kiss the Sky” about a black rock star. Yeah you read right we had a hand in that too, think Jami Hendrix. Though I didn’t ask her this, I’m quite sure the title is an homage to Hendrix who had an album entitled “Kiss the Sky”.

A Growing Number of T.V. Stations Will Share Video

There’s a lot of talk about the changes being experienced by those in the newspaper and magazine industries.Still there are also changes on the broadcast side such as in T.V. and radio. Broadcasting & Cable reports on a deal by a group of Atlanta stations who will share video by creating a group of pool photographers. With shared content in some of the biggest media markets in the country, how will the stations remain distinctive and offer unique newscast and content across their platforms? Will it destroy chances for the next generation of videographers to get their foot in the door by shrinking the number of jobs?