The Wall Street Journal announced it will launch a YouTube channel today that features “soft news” instead of “hard news.”

YouTube is about to look a lot more like traditional television. According to the Wall Street Journal , YouTube is hard at work on developing a group of scheduled channels.

For a good few weeks there, the web media world was all abuzz with the news of the possible sale of Hulu.

Hulu, the online provider of streaming movies and television shows, has received an offer from a potential buyer . The identity of the buyer is unknown, though rumors suggest it is a well-known, very large company. What is known, is that Hulu is considering the offer, debating internally the pros and cons of selling the property

You know those rumors that went around a while back about YouTube courting celebrities and professional content creators to come create videos exclusively for the site? The Wall Street Journal was the first to report on it, and speculated that YouTube was willing to spend as much as $100 on procuring original content from as many as 20 new channels. Now, nearly two months later, All Things Digital has turned up even more interesting information about the endeavor

Seemingly out of nowhere, Microsoft has acquired Skype for $8.5 Billion , according to the Wall Street Journal.