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YouTube Launches 'Virtual Assignment Desk' With YouTube Direct

Tool Allows Media Organizations To Request, Vet, Broadcast Clips

John Eggerton -- Multichannel News, 11/17/2009 10:18:00 AM

The online video site Tuesday announced the launch of YouTube Direct, a tool that it says will allow media

organizations to request, vet, and broadcast YouTube clips.

The open source application allows news organizations to access a version of the site's upload platform from their own Web sites, creating what YouTube calls a virtual assignment desk.

"Using YouTube Direct, news and media organizations can farm out assignments to citizen reporters, allowing them to upload their videos directly into the application," said YouTube in announcing the platform.

Among the operations said to be planning to use the new platform, according to the company, are WHDH-TV/WLVI-TV Boston, The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post, NPR and Allbritton's Politico.

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