Media Roundup: Hulu's Traffic Dips, NYT Announces Wage Freeze, and More

Hulu's traffic down -- After an October fueled by Tina Fey's parodies of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, Hulu has seen its traffic dip 10 percent in November. Hulu was one of two sites on the Internet where viewers could legally watch Fey's popular caricature (the other being NBC.com). Despite the drop, Hulu's traffic has been on the rise since leaving beta status in March. [Source: All Things Digital]

New York Times announces wage freeze -- The Gray Lady's non-union workers should not expect any pay raises this year, management announced on Friday. An internal email blamed falling ad revenues for the cost cutting measure. [Source: Forbes]

Detroit Free Press cuts delivery -- Gannett is considering scaling back home delivery days of the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News. On the days with no delivery, the papers would sell scaled back versions on newsstands that would refer heavily to the online product. [Source: Wall Street Journal]

Politico begins syndication network -- Politico has begun selling its articles and ads to the news wire service Reuters. Politico would have the right to sell ads on the newspapers' Web pages, and share the revenue with the papers. In return, Reuters will begin to carry Politico's news stories for syndication. [Source: New York Times]

Mahalo launches Yahoo! Answers competition -- Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis said his company will offer a Yahoo! Answers-like service that will pay its users. The feature will allow questioners to offer "Mahalo Dollars" to the best answers, while being backed by an eBay-like rating system. Mahalo describes itself as a "human powered search engine" that indexes pages by hand as opposed to automatically, as Google does. [Source: Mashable]