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Listening, Matt Beat discusses his YouTube channel and how he started creating content.

FEATURE: Beat the Books

Phoebe Morris, News Managing Editor December 12, 2025

Former government teacher and local Lawrenceian Matt Beat, also referred to as “Mr. Beat,”online creates educational videos about history for his audience of 1.3 million subscribers on YouTube. Beat...

photo credit to birgerking

Pros of Social Media

morgan noll, reporter February 1, 2013

Our generation revolves around technology. Social media is all the talk with a billion people on Facebook, over 500 million Twitter users and four billion views on YouTube per day. A certain resentment...

Livelavalive

Livelavalive

September 7, 2011

"Hi, hello, this is Mitchell Davis.” You’ve probably heard of the antics of Mitchell Davis and his best friend, Kyle Sibert. They’ve been on YouTube for years, since way back in 2007. Since then...

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