CNN – Google to finance original content on YouTube

CNN: Google to finance original content on YouTube
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/04/07/google.original.youtube.mashable/index.html?iphoneemail

• Google plans to create 20 special channels on its YouTube site
• Sources say this will be a “major overhaul” to YouTube
• Google has visited top Hollywood talent agencies in search of ideas

NYTimes: Egypt Protests Go On, Seeking New Beginning

CAIRO — Banners fluttering from the rooftop of Cairo University’s faculty of mass communications denounce the dean as a Mubarak-era lackey. Fistfights between the dean’s student opponents and supporters erupt like summer squalls, with the din often emptying classrooms as students pour into the main lobby either to join the fray or watch.

Students at Cairo University recently protested to demand the removal of Samy Abdel Aziz, the dean of the mass media faculty, who had criticized the revolution. By NEIL MacFARQUHAR Published: April 7, 2011