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3:30 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
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Washington Post Passed On Journalist's ‘Undocumented Immigrant’ Revelation  —  NEW YORK âÂ"- Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas shocked the media world Wednesday by revealing that heâs an undocumented immigrant in an upcoming New York Times magazine story splashed across the paperâs homepage.
Discussion: Mediaite, Guardian and This Just In
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Chris Suellentrop / The 6th Floor:
My (Legal) Editor's Dream  —  Last week, at 11:54 p.m. on Monday night, June 13, an e-mail from Jose Antonio Vargas landed in my inbox.  “Hi Chris,” Jose wrote.  “Hope you are well.  Any chance we can chat on the phone tomorrow?  It's rather urgent and personal — and a possible story for you.”
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 …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
LinkedIn Connects With Fortune's Dan Roth  —  LinkedIn wants to become more than a networking site for professionals: It has ambitions to become a sort of media company, too.  —  Now it's bringing in someone to help them pull that off.  The service has hired Time Inc.'s Dan Roth, Fortune magazine's digital editor.
Anthony DeRosa:
An interview with New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller  —  Bill Keller has spent the last eight years as executive editor of the New York Times.  He recently announced he will step down from his post in September and hand it over to Jill Abramson, who will become the first female executive editor in the history of the paper.
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Salon Chief Executive Steps Down  —  Richard Gingras, a longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur who has been chief executive of the Salon Media Group for the last two years, is stepping down.  —  Mr. Gingras has a long history with the company, going back to its founding when he helped gather the seed money to start Salon.com in 1995.
Discussion: FishbowlNY and The Wire
David Carr / Media Decoder:
Brian Lam Leaves Gizmodo  —  Brian Lam, editor of Gizmodo, is leaving Gawker's popular gadget and technology blog.  —  Mr. Lam, a journo-technologist with the soul of an artist — his ocean-centric sideline site is called The Scuttlefish - is not precisely sure what he is going to do next …
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.
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Gannett layoffs are a leading indicator of a permanently shrinking newspaper business  —  The 700 layoffs Gannett announced at its community newspapers Tuesday can rightly be read as a vote of no confidence in the future of print by America's largest newspaper company.
Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:
New commitment, new boss, new name: Knight to invest nearly $4m in MIT's Center for Civic Media  —  The Knight Foundation today will announce a major commitment to MIT's Center for Future Civic Media: a three-year, $3.76 million investment, a new boss, and a newly refined mission.
Jim Romenesko / Poynter:
Knight News Challenge winners announced  —  Romenesko Misc.  —  Sixteen projects that push the future of news and information will receive a total of $4.7 million in funding.  The 2011 Knight News Challenge winners are:  —  * Adaptive Path (San Francisco) for iWitness; $360,000; Jesse James Garrett, project lead
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.
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.
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Shazam Raises $32M to Push Into Television  —  Shazam, the popular mobile music look-up service, has raised $32 million from investors including Kleiner Perkins and Institutional Venture Partners.  —  The company has more than 140 million users (people who have downloaded one of its apps …
 
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Guardian's move to ‘digital-first’ will involve job cuts, says Alan Rusbridger
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New York Post:
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Michael Cervieri / ScribeMedia.org:
The lifespan of online content is nasty, brutish and short
Discussion: Future of Journalism
Daniel Schuman / Sunlight Foundation Blog:
Moving Congress Online: Modernizing Information Delivery in the House
Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:
Nightcrawlers! Party Reporting and the Paper of Record
The Atlantic Online:
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Jake Weinraub / The Wrap:
Former NYT Staffer David Cay Johnston Joins Reuters
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Meet Engine28, an arts-focused pop-up newsroom
Discussion: LA Observed and Editors Weblog
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
The Washington Post is making money the new-fashioned way, by playing roulette
Discussion: Future of Journalism
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Digits:
Comcast CEO: ‘Jury is Out’ on Netflix's Impact
Discussion: Online Video News
 

 
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU

Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central:
Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more

Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat:
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