NEW YORK – A new report says the video-sharing website YouTube is emerging as a major platform for news. The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism said Monday a third of the most searched terms on YouTube during the 15 months of the center’s study were news-related. Pew’s research was conducted from January 2011 to March 2012. Pew says in the seven days following last year’s tsunami-triggering earthquake in northeastern Japan, the 20 most viewed news-related videos on YouTube all focused on the tragedy and were viewed more than 96-million times. Pew says what people saw in those videos represented a |