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YouTube launches YouTube Direct for media publishers

YouTube today launched YouTube Direct, a new tool that allows media organizations to request, review and rebroadcast YouTube clips directly from YouTube users. Launch partners for YouTube Direct include ABC News, the Huffington Post, NPR, Politico, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Post, and WHDH-TV/WLVI-TV in Boston. More about the launch here.

Discovery launches science news Web site – washingtonpost.com

Discovery has launched a new Web site dedicated to reporting science and technology news. (via washingtonpost.com)

Live stream: “Journalism & the New Media Ecology: Who Will Pay the Messengers?

“Journalism & the New Media Ecology: Who Will Pay the Messengers?” is a conference at Yale this weekend. You can follow the conference via live video stream here. The Twitter hashtag is #kmedia.

Top 50 Journalism Blogs

Journalism Journeyman names the Top 50 Journalism Blogs. Thanks for including CyberJournalist.net!

Fox News’ Online Video ‘Strategy’

“Strategy Room,” Fox News’ Web video “network,” produces eight hours of live programming from New York each weekday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time, and attracts about 28,000 viewers, according to MediaWeek.

New York Times publishes community-funded journalism

The New York Times has published a story about the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” by Lindsey Hoshaw that was funded in part through the “community funded journalism” site Spot.Us, which helped Hoshaw raise $10,000 from more than 100 people so she could report the story. She talks about the experience here:

New site ‘Netted’ by the Webbys

Netted is a new daily email produced by the folks behind the Webbys, “a free daily newsletter where they’ll share the latest, coolest, and most useful things they’ve discovered online”

Interactive: How Barack Obama Won the White House

This interactive map shows how Barack Obama Won the White House one year ago.

How Do You Feel a Year After President Obama’s Election?

Cool interactive features on nytimes.com asking, “What One Word Best Describes How You Feel a Year After President Obama’s Election?” This page updates with the most popular choices from NYTimes.com readers.

Nonprofit news venture Texas Tribune to launch

Evan Smith, the longtime editor of Texas Monthly, is launching the Texas Tribune, a non-profit news operation that has hired 11 journalists at competitive salaries. Howard Kurtz reports: The fledgling operation has raised an impressive $3.6 million, with $1 million coming from Smith’s pal, venture capitalist John Thornton. “It actually started, as much as my life does, out [...]