When President Obama sat for a 35-minute interview-live, on-camera-in the White House library last month, it wasn't one of the evening news anchors or their cable counterparts who sat across from him. It was Steve Grove, head of news and politics at YouTube, who guided the president through a series of video and written questions submitted and selected by the YouTube community.rnThe interview, which was streamed live online, showed the extent to which Grove has helped make the Google-owned company into a serious player in the news business. By staging a virtual presidential press conference, with the American public castrnas the White House press corps, Grove's news and politics team demonstrated just one way it is using the YouTube platform to draw citizens into the newsgath-ering process and create original news programming.
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