By BRIAN STELTER
 

When motion pictures were invented at the end of the 19th century, most films were shorter than a minute, because of the limitations of technology. A little more than a hundred years later when Web videos were introduced, they were also cut short, but for social as well as technical reasons.
Video creators, by [...]

By E.B. Boyd
This is going to drive all those “Google is just a vampire sucking us dry” journos crazy: Olivia Ma, head of News & Politics for YouTube, has just been named to the board of the Center for Public Integrity. (YouTube is a Google subsidiary.)
Ma joins the likes of CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, USC j-school [...]

By David Cohen
With the explosion of news reports from non-media folks using new technology, YouTube, which ends up hosting a good chunk of those video reports, launched a valuable resource.
The YouTube Reporters’ Center includes instructional videos, tips and advice from established journalists including Katie Couric, Bob Woodward, Nicholas Kristof, Scott Simon, Arianna Huffington, Tavis Smiley, [...]

By TEDDY WAYNE
 

Alongside the explosive growth of online video over the last six years, time spent on social networks surpassed that for e-mail for the first time in February, signaling a paradigm shift in consumer engagement with the Internet.
According to a report released in April by Nielsen, Internet use for “short-tail” sites with large audience [...]

Google plans to launch a premium content section of YouTube, which will feature its growing collection of full-length films and TV shows while still preserving its user-generated content side. Now, maybe YouTube can make some money.
By Jacqui Cheng

Google has announced that it will partner with major movie studios to stream a number of full-length films [...]

By  Steven Musil

Maybe the Associated Press can file this one under “That’s news to me.”
At least one representative of the venerable news agency, which recently declared that it was tired of the Internet riding on its coattails, was apparently unaware the agency had an official YouTube video channel.
The AP recently sent a letter to WTNQ-FM [...]