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2:45 AM 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 / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
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.
Jim / Gannett Blog:
Bulletin: Gannett announces 700 newspaper layoffs  —  U.S. newspapers division President Bob Dickey distributed the following memo today:  —  CONFIDENTIAL CONTAINS PROPRIETARY BUSINESS INFORMATION - NOT FOR PUBLIC DISSEMINATION  —  June 21, 2011  —  To: All US Community Publishing employees
Discussion: paidContent, Poynter, MediaPost and Adweek
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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Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
6 reasons to consider Onswipe for tablet-friendly websites
Discussion: The Next Web and Betabeat
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.
Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Righthaven Loss: Judge Rules Reposting Entire Article Is Fair Use  —  A federal judge ruled Monday that publishing an entire article without the rights holder's authorization was a fair use of the work, in yet another blow to newspaper copyright troll Righthaven.
Matthew Campbell / Bloomberg:
AOL Considering Paid Content, International Acquisitions in Company Revamp  —  AOL Inc. (AOL) may introduce premium versions of its online content and make international acquisitions as Chief Executive Officer Tim Armstrong works to turn around the struggling Internet pioneer.
Mat Honan / Gizmodo:
I Call This Blackmail  —  Aol employee Mike Arrington is angry!  The TechCrunch founder and co-editor fired off a histrionic screed yesterday directed at Caterina Fake, founder of Flickr and Hunch, with an explicit threat aimed at anyone who doesn't kowtow to him.
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Barnes & Noble: E-books Now Outsell Print Books 3 To 1 On BN.com  —  As Barnes & Noble's board reviews a bid from Liberty Media to acquire the company, it still has to focus on the here-and-now of running a business with physical and digital components.  On the digital side, the news is good.
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 …
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.
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?
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Meet Engine28, an arts-focused pop-up newsroom  —  It has the makings of an MTV show: Forty journalists...picked to work in a house...and have their lives taped.  But The Real World this is not.  —  Engine28 is another kind of reality show: a pop-up newsroom.
Discussion: LA Observed and Editors Weblog
 
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Jake Weinraub / The Wrap:
Former NYT Staffer David Cay Johnston Joins Reuters
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
The Washington Post is making money the new-fashioned way, by playing roulette
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Digits:
Comcast CEO: ‘Jury is Out’ on Netflix's Impact
Discussion: Online Video News
Ben Popper / Betabeat:
Why Does Google Want AdMeld So Badly? High Frequency Trading for Online Ads
Discussion: The New York Observer
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Report: Men Respond Differently Than Women To ‘Paid’ vs. ‘Earned’ Media
Adweek:
First Mover: Vivian Schiller
Ellie Behling / eMedia Vitals:
The rise of the journalist as publisher
Diane Cardwell / New York Times:
Legal Battles Are Woven Over Tangled Web Gossip
 Earlier Picks: 
Wailin Wong / Chicago Tribune:
Everyblock hires new president
Jim Romenesko / Poynter:
Ex-Tribune CEO Michaels is back in radio
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Economist group results defy downturn
Discussion: Press Gazette, Folio, Media Week and Adweek
Media Week:
Heineken and i launch co-branded app
Discussion: New Media Age