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12:45 AM ET, May 26, 2013

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Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Press Sees Chilling Effect in Justice Dept. Inquiries  —  President Obama's conciliatory gesture toward the press this week — a review of Justice Department investigations involving journalists — struck some national security reporters as closing the door after the sources have already bolted.
Discussion: @coreyhutchins, Boing Boing and CNN
Alex Pareene / Salon:
Eric Holder versus journalism
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Yet Another Hulu Bidder!  Yahoo Is In, Too.  —  Add one more name to the Hulu bidding derby: Yahoo, which just announced plans to buy Tumblr for $1.1 billion, has made an offer on the video website as well.  —  The Web giant submitted a bid for the video site this morning, according to a person familiar with process.
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Bloomberg:
KKR, Silver Lake Said to Join Bidding for Hulu Online Video Site
Discussion: Variety, The Wrap, The Next Web and Mashable
Kevin Davis / NetNewsCheck Latest:
INN Starts Backing Nonprofit News Startups  —  After a 19-month wait to secure its own 501(c)3 status, the Investigative News Network has started to sponsor nonprofit news projects.  “Fiscal sponsorship allows these early-stage nonprofits to accept donations from philanthropists and foundations …
Adam Rifkin / AllThingsD:
Why Tumblr Was a Massive Steal for Yahoo  —  The blockbuster acquisition of Tumblr by Yahoo for $1.1 billion — all cash — has been portrayed as a gigantic gamble on the part of the acquirer.  However, for those of us who believe there can be specific guidelines around the valuation of interest graphs …
Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Syrian Electronic Army compromises Sky News Android app  —  EXCLUSIVE: A screen capture provided to The Desk by a hacker with the Syrian Electronic Army purports to show the developer dashboard for several BSkyB Android applications.  —  The Syrian Electronic Army claimed responsibility …
Kim Zetter / Wired:
WikiLeaks Donations Down to a Trickle  —  As WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange approaches the one-year anniversary of his confinement in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, a report released Wednesday reveals that donations to the secret-spilling site have dwindled to a trickle.
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Government should reopen talks on press regulation, says Alan Rusbridger  —  Guardian editor-in-chief also raises concerns over use of royal charter, saying it is ‘a mechanism controlled by ministers’  —  The Guardian editor-in-chief, Alan Rusbridger, has urged the culture secretary …
Discussion: Big News Network.com
Alan Murray / Pew Research Center:
Introducing Fact Tank  —  Welcome to Fact Tank, a new, real-time platform from the Pew Research Center, dedicated to finding news in the numbers.  —  Fact Tank will build on the Pew Research Center's unique brand of data journalism.  For years, our teams of writers and social scientists …
Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
News Corp. to take up to $1.4-billion write-down in publishing  —  News Corp. disclosed that it would take as much as a $1.4-billion write-down in publishing during the current fiscal quarter.  Rupert Murdoch, chief executive of the corporation, is pictured here in 2011.  (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / May 24, 2013)
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Crayton Harrison / Bloomberg:
News Corp. Publishing Unit Gets $500 Million Buyback Fund
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Emilio Garcia-Ruiz named managing editor of The Washington Post  —  Emilio Garcia-Ruiz is The Washington Post's new managing editor in charge of “digital initiatives and operations, video, the presentation departments of photo, graphics, and design, and the multiplatform editing desk.”
Ira Teinowitz / The Wrap:
D.C. Broadcasters Sue Aerokiller for Copyright Infringement  —  Broadcasters are expanding their attack on Aereo-like services that let consumers view broadcast channels on the web without stations getting a retransmission fee payment  —  Broadcasters are expanding their legal attack on Aereo …
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter and paidContent
 
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