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12:25 PM ET, June 22, 2011

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Dawn Chmielewski / Company Town:
Yahoo approaches Hulu about possible acquisition  —  Yahoo Inc. recently approached Hulu to discuss a possible acquisition of the popular online video service, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.  —  Hulu, which streams television shows on the Internet, has been the subject of intense speculation about its future.
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Wall Street Journal:
Website Hulu Considers Sale  —  Web-video site Hulu LLC is weighing whether to sell itself after a potential buyer for the company approached it with an offer, people familiar with the matter said.  —  The identity of the buyer couldn't be learned.  The offer has spurred Hulu's board to study its options …
Jay Yarow / The Wire:
Hulu Considering Selling Itself After Receiving An Offer  —  Hulu is considering selling itself after being approached with a buyout offer, according to tweets from CNBC and WSJ reporters.  —  Julia Boorstin at CNBC says the offer did not come from Google, but doesn't say who the offer did come from.
Adweek:
New York Post to Raise Newsstand Price  —  The New York Post is raising its newsstand price to 75 cents beginning Monday, according to sources at the newspaper.  —  Editor-in-chief Col Allan did not respond to calls about the hike.  Memos sent to reporters on Tuesday demanded better stories …
Discussion: FishbowlNY, ReveNews and The Awl
The Atlantic Wire:
Margaret Atwood: What I Read  —  How do other people deal with the torrent of information that pours down on us all?  What sources can't they live without?  We regularly reach out to prominent figures in media, entertainment, politics, the arts and the literary world, to hear their answers to these questions.
Nicholas White / MediaShift:
The Necessity of Data Journalism in the New Digital Community  —  This is the second post in a series from Nicholas White, the co-founder and CEO of The Daily Dot.  —  It used to be, to be a good reporter, all you had to do was get drunk with the right people.
New York Post:
Time Warner to US OK! magazine: No thanks  —  Time Warner's interest in acquiring the struggling US edition of celebrity magazine OK! appears to be fading.  That's thanks to the latest financial results from the title's parent company, Northern & Shell, which suggest the mag was still bleeding money …
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The Atlantic Online:
What Big Media Can Learn From the New York Public Library  —  Despite looming budget cuts, the library is flourishing and putting out some of the most innovative online projects in the country  —  NEW YORK — Two massive lions flank the steps of the New York Public Library's flagship building on Fifth Avenue.
Dan Harris / ABCNEWS:
Journalist Jose Antonio Vargas Comes Out as Illegal Immigrant to Fight for DREAM Act  —  For the past decade, Jose Antonio Vargas has pursued success in journalism.  In addition to winning a Pulitzer Prize with the Washington Post for his coverage of the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings …
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
How to sell content by making it easy to buy  —  A resolute consortium of media companies in, of all places, Slovakia appears to be proving that you can charge for digital content, so long as you (a) hang together as a group and (b) make it simple for the consumer to pay.
Michael Cervieri / ScribeMedia.org:
The lifespan of online content is nasty, brutish and short … An ugly truth about online media is the incredibly fast decay rates of content objects.  Even the most compelling content once published experiences a quick drop off in engagement relative to its perceived value.
Discussion: Future of Journalism
Joe Flint / Company Town:
Current TV watching Comcast-Bloomberg fight closely  —  Bloomberg and Comcast are not the only interested parties watching to see how the Federal Communications Commission resolves their feud over where Bloomberg's business news channel should be placed on Comcast's cable systems.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Turntable.fm Really Is Awesome.  Is It Legal?  —  Turntable.fm is a little miracle that does something simple and essential: It lets you play your favorite songs for your friends and strangers on the Web, in real time, for free.  —  I'd say it's astonishing no one has done it before …
Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:
Nightcrawlers!  Party Reporting and the Paper of Record  —  At the Tony Awards last week, a pair of the city's rival nightlife columnists, Sarah Maslin Nir of The New York Times and Marshall Heyman of The Wall Street Journal, happened to walk into the Beacon Theatre together.
Daniel Schuman / Sunlight Foundation Blog:
Moving Congress Online: Modernizing Information Delivery in the House  —  by Eric Mill, Sunlight Foundation Developer, and Jacob Hutt, Policy Intern  —  What would Congress look like with bill markups conducted on iPads, real-time versioning of statutes, and without bulky, printed Federal Registers?
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Can OnSwipe convince media to go web instead of app?  —  OnSwipe, the New York-based startup that we wrote about awhile back, is launching the full version of its mobile web-publishing service today: a platform that allows websites and media companies to create tablet-friendly views …
 
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
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