This is going to drive all those "Google is just a vampire sucking us dry" journos crazy: Olivia Ma, head of News & Politics for YouTube, has just been named to the board of the Center for Public Integrity. (YouTube is a Google subsidiary.)

Ma joins the likes of CNN's Christiane Amanpour, USC j-school director Geneva Overholser, and award-winning journalist Hodding Carter on the 19-member board, whose goal is to help CPI promote "transparency, accountability, and the health of our democracy."

In its description of Ma's credits, CPI cites the fact that YouTube is the third most-visited site on the Web, Ma's launching of Project: Report last year, and her participation in YouTube's Politics efforts during the 2008 campaign.

(Had the summary been printed a few days later, it might also have included these recently announced YouTube projects: The Reporters Center and the YouTube/Google News video partnership program with news-gathering organizations.)

Photo credit: Center for Public Integrity

Complete Ma bio, after the jump

Olivia Ma's bio, as posted on the Center for Public Integrity Web site"

"Ms. Ma is the news manager at the online video site, YouTube. Since its founding in 2005, YouTube has become the world's third most trafficked website, after Google and Yahoo!. She manages YouTube's news programming and works with professional news organizations, amateur journalists, and citizens to document events happening around the world. Last fall, Ma launched YouTube's first major journalism program, Project: Report, a contest for aspiring journalists, produced with the Pulitzer Center, and she has worked on many of YouTube's political initiatives during the 2008 presidential election. Prior to joining YouTube, Ma worked for Plum, a social media-sharing website where she was the product manager and community specialist. Ma is a graduate of Harvard University where she oversaw production of Current, a national student newsmagazine, published in partnership with Newsweek."