Today the Center for Investigative Reporting announced it will launch an investigative news YouTube channel this summer. Also, tomorrow CIR is co-hosting an event bringing together investigative journalists and technologists…

According to CIR, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is providing $800,000 to support the new investigative news video channel on YouTube, which CIR will curate. It will launch in July.

Besides selecting videos to run on this channel, CIR also will train journalists in “audience engagement and other best practices for online video.”

The Investigative News Network will work with its member organizations to “leverage the channel to reach new audiences and increase the amount of earned revenue to subsidize their public-interest journalism.” CIR and INN will both promote this channel and engage users via social media and online chats.

TechRaking, April 12. This invitation-only one-day conference is being held at the “Googleplex” in Mountain View, Calif. It will “bring together technologists and muckrakers to form a more perfect union by exploring the problems and opportunities that lay before us.”

See the schedule. Topics include collaboration; money, politics and data; 15-minute interactives, and much more.

Track the action online:

• CIR on Twitter (@cironline), Google+ and Facebook
• Twitter hashtag #techraking for the event. Other session-specific hashtags are listed on the schedule.

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