An interview with Britain’s Got Talent star Susan Boyle shot and edited by a weekly newspaper journalist has been included in a list of last year’s “most memorable” videos.

Video sharing website YouTube compiled a list of the 31 most memorable films uploaded to the website during 2009.

It revealed one a day during December as a video advent calendar with the Susan Boyle interview being the last to be uploaded on New Year’s Eve.

Richard Mooney, a digital journalist with the West Lothian Courier, part of Trinity Mirror’s Scottish and Universal Newspaper division, was one of the first to interview the singing star on camera in April, shortly after her memorable first appearance on the hit ITV show.

The interview was uploaded to the West Lothian Courier’s YouTube channel the same day it was shot and has been seen by just over five million people since.

Richard told HTFP: “It’s such an honour to receive a prestigious international recognition like this.

“The video went live the day we interviewed her and was one of the first to be done with her on camera and the first to go live on the web.

“It was used on Sky News the next day and on Brazilian network Globo later in the year. Their top presenter Zeca Carmargo even congratulated us on a job well done.

“It just goes to show the immense power of the internet and what social media can really do, when a local newspaper can produce something so incredibly popular.

“That day we constantly had the likes of CNN, NBC and many other media outlets knocking on our door for information on Susan Boyle.

“I couldn’t believe it myself when it happened, but I nearly jumped through the roof when I saw it appear as the final video on the countdown on New Year’s Eve.”