We live a day and age when its becoming increasingly more difficult to find a trusted news source.
I realized that many of our subscribers have no idea what our process is like, how much
research goes into every video, where you can find our sources an if there are any sources,
etcetera.
So I thought a great Idea for a video would be to tell you guys a little about all of
that.
So can you trust inform overload videos?
Well im gonna tell you in just a second but first, the intro
Welcome back to inform overload I’m charlotte dobre.
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Before I get into this video, tell me in the comments, whats your favorite story we have
covered on IO.
I saw a video recently on a channel I absolutely love.
Kurtskezaught.
They did a video called can you trust Kurtskezaught.
videos where they explain their process.
And I thought it would be a great idea to tell you guys a bit about our process and
the work that goes into every video that you see on IO.
Alright, starting things off, I’m going to tell you guys how I find my stories.
I pick all the stories for IO, with the exception of a few ideas that I get from our company’s
creative director Liam.
So pretty much everything that you see on IO, at least in the last year or two, is a
story that I have personally chosen.
Hayley our set manager used to pick stories with me, but she’s no longer with the company,
so from now on, unless I leave, you can trust that all the videos are my ideas.
I also get some of my ideas from you guys, I do look at your story suggestions when you
send them to me on instagram.
So basically, I get to work on any given day, and I spend half an hour looking at various
websites at all of the news stories that are trending that day.
There are a lot of topics that I wish I could cover, but many of them are too controversial
for youtube.
So I stick to stories that I know will get monetised unless the story is extremely important
and it will bring in subscribers.
Then its worth it for us.
I also like to keep things light and informative so I stay away from politics wherever possible.
There are too many conflicting sources and biases out there and it’s difficult to make
everyone happy even when I’m just relaying facts.
I also like to think of IO as a source where people can forget about all that and just
learn something interesting and have a laugh.
So just so you know, Its really difficult for me to find ideas for stories sometimes.
Sure, some days there is a lot of news to cover, but we have to do at least 3 uploads
a day regardless of whether or not there are good stories that youtube will allow us to
monetise.
Sometimes, there’s just no news, and there’s not a whole lot we can do about that.
All our videos have to be backed up by good sources, and if there are no good sources,
well.. we’re out of luck.
Before I start writing, I run my story choices by the creative director, and then once I
get the go ahead, I start researching.
For my research, I only use trusted sources.
I stay away from tabloids like the daily star and the daily express as much as possible.
Websites like IFL science, livescience, Mashable, Time Magazine, Insider, The independent, The
Verge and Polygon are some of my favourites.
You should also know that every single story that you see on IO is backed up by multiple
sources.
So even if a story is from a less trusted source, I make sure that there is more than
one outlet covering it.
I don’t even touch a story that doesn’t at least have 3 or 4 sources.
#1 because I need to fill up a 5 minute video and I cant do that without enough information,
#2 because the story is more likely to be legitimate and #3 I can crosscheck facts that
way.
If you’re curious about where we got the story for a particular video, our sources
are always, ALWAYS, posted in the description of that video.
I will reiterate that IO is about making news more entertaining, its right there in the
banner of the channel.
We take news that’s already in existence, and we make it more enjoyable and provide
all the information that’s available on that topic based on the sources I found.
Then, It takes me about an hour and 15 minutes to research and write a story.
Again, it takes me that long to research, fact check, write and add in some jokes.
Once im satisfied with the story, we get to filming.
We put the story up on a teleprompter and I read it out, I put spaces in between facts
so I can Improvise and crack a joke every now and again.
Then I take the SD card down to our editing department and the editors get to work.
Tessa is usually our editor for IO, but occasionally its Dylan or Cassie.
Occasionally I will make the thumbnails, Im also a photographer on the side so I’m pretty
good at photoshop.
But lately our creative director has been making them as well as doing the tags for
the video.
Of course, we don’t always get it right.
IO is different from a news publication because if we get a fact wrong, we have to make an
entire update video.
That costs money.
Normally publications just edit their news stories and post and update with any corrections,
it takes 5 minutes and costs nothing.
But we don’t have that luxury.
So with that being said, I do get it wrong sometimes.
I’m human, we are all human, and occasionally there are instances where I get facts incorrect.
Maybe all the facts weren’t available at that time, and the news story got more in
depth as time went on as more information became available.
Maybe I straight up messed up and either read the teleprpomter wrong, I wrote down the fact
wrong or the source was incorrect in the first place.
We don’t get it wrong a lot, for us to put out incorrect info, it would mean that I got
it wrong, our set manager didn’t pick up on the incorrect info when we were filming,
and then the incorrect info also got past our editor without them realizing.
Yes, the editor fact checks too.
When this happens, we make an update video where we apologise or we write an update in
the comment section of the incorrect video with an update of the facts.
Another thing that I do if there are some conflicting facts and opinions about a topic
is I will reach out to a source directly for an interview.
So can you trust informoverload videos?
HECK YA YOU CAN!
If you guys have any suggestions for this channel, please let us know.
We always want to improve to make this channel as great as possible.
For now, I’m going to wrap up this video with some comment features.
TJ Harper – I’ve been subscribed so long I don’t even know the first video I watched,
but what I do know is charlotte is my favorite news reader ever.
Lots of love from England.
Leigha Reilly – WHERE IS THE BEANIE.
I CANT WEAR IT EVERY DAY.
Funky Goose World – thank you IO for entertaining me.
Io the sunshine of my life.
That’s why I’ll always stay around.
XFA – you do the news?
EW.
Get your mind outta the gutter.
Ashyo Sings – Been watching you for a few months now and im ready to get potatisised.
Not sure if that’s a word but I’m ready for you to get potatosised too.