Mediagazer: Exclusive: Carol Bartz Out at Yahoo; CFO Tim Morse Named Interim CEO (Kara Swisher/AllThingsD)

6:00 AM ET, September 7, 2011

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Carol Bartz Out at Yahoo; CFO Tim Morse Named Interim CEO — According to sources at the company, Yahoo's Carol Bartz is no longer CEO of Yahoo. CFO Tim Morse has been named interim CEO. — The situation around what is clearly an ouster is uncertain, but Bartz has had a very rocky tenure in her 32 months at the company.

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Once Display's Ad Sales Leader, Trends Now Favor Yahoo Rivals — Barring some explosive revelation, Carol Bartz is out as CEO of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) because she couldn't show any way up. During the Q2 earnings call, Bartz had to admit that at a time when others were seeing improvements …

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Editorial Independence — There's confusion - way too much confusion - about my status at TechCrunch and TechCrunch's status at Aol after last week's announcement that I was launching a venture fund, partially backed by Aol. — The multiple conflicting statements made by Aol on Thursday …

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
War at AOL as Arrington and Huffington Declare Independence

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Give Me Back My Baby: Michael Arrington Trying to Buy Back TechCrunch From AOL — But Would AOL Sell It?

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Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
TECHCRUNCH: If AOL Fires Mike Arrington, We're Screwed

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Noreen Malone / New York Magazine:

Slate's Jack Shafer Is Headed to Reuters [Updated] — Shafer — Jack Shafer, Slate's very recently laid-off media critic, is moving to Reuters, according to a source familiar with the matter. The deep-pocketed news service — which under the digital leadership of Chrystia Freeland …

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Dylan Byers / Adweek:
Jack Shafer Joins Reuters

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Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Phone hacking: Evidence to MPs gives James Murdoch room for manoeuvre — Colin Myler and Tom Crone did not deal a fatal blow — Colin Myler and Tom Crone may have come to the select committee with pistols loaded, but they did not fire the fatal shot at James Murdoch.

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Caroline Binham / Financial Times: Media groups apply for key status in inquiry

BBC:
Phone hacking: James Murdoch ‘told of hacking email’

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Roy J. Harris Jr / Poynter:

How The Wall Street Journal's improvised 9/11 battle plan helped it to a Pulitzer — There's an old joke that refers to newspapers as “the daily miracle.” But one edition a decade ago, assembled by Wall Street Journal staffers on Sept. 11, 2001, was truly miraculous.

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Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

Tech reporter Nick Wingfield quits WSJ for NYT — “Nick has been a strong competitor and we are very happy to have him on our side to chronicle the many changes in the technology industry and how it affects our lives,” says a memo to the Times Business Day staff. It continues: … From: Darlin, Damon

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Google Goes Big With Its Hulu Bid — Hulu's corporate owners are currently mulling bids from three would-be buyers: Amazon, Yahoo, and the Dish Network. — And then there's Google. The search giant has also made an offer for the video site, but it seems to be playing a different sport …

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Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Felix Salmon's brain, Drudged: Meet Counterparties, a personal linkblog with Reuters branding — What would a “Buzzfeed for finance” look like? — Felix Salmon and Ryan McCarthy are figuring it out — via Counterparties, the site they launched this afternoon.

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Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:
Felix Salmon's New Blog Will Teach You to Read Like Felix Salmon

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Conde Nast Spins Out Reddit, Without Letting Go — Five years after buying Reddit, Conde Nast is giving the social news site a gentle shove out the door. — The publisher isn't pushing Reddit very far away, though. It is spinning out the company as a standalone operation, but will retain full ownership of it, for now.

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Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

NYT's Abramson names leadership team — “This is a start, explaining some changed roles,” Jill Abramson writes on her first day as Times executive editor. “Some leaders will continue in the same roles, because they've made themselves irreplaceable, at least to — us rookies in our first year.

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Stephanie Trong / New York Magazine:

Tavi Gevinson Explains Her New Website, Rookie — Tavi Gevinson. — Last night, 15-year-old wunderkind blogger Tavi Gevinson launched her much-anticipated new website, Rookie (rookiemag.com). Originally conceived as a joint venture with Jane Pratt and Say Media, the site …

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Steve Buttry / The Buttry Diary:

Suggestions (but not standards) for live tweeting — “Do you know of any standards for content of live tweets?” a commenter asked on my blog recently. — “I have students live tweet meetings and speeches. Would love some specific guidelines for what makes a good tweet,” asked Michele Day …

Keach Hagey / On Media's Blog:

Jonathan Chait to New York; Timothy Noah to New Republic — Tim Noah, another of the recent Slate layoffs that causes such a furor last month, emails some major media news. … Noah, who had written Slate's “Chatterbox” column, has lately been on book leave for a book about income inequality …

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Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Newsweek Daily Beast Co. Hires New President Rob Gregory jumps from Plum TV By Lucia Moses — The Newsweek Daily Beast Co. is getting a new president. CEO Stephen Colvin picked Rob Gregory, a veteran of Maxim and Rolling Stone with whom he worked at Dennis Publishing, for the newly created position.

Steve Smith / MediaPost:

Ralph Lauren Takes Over The Times iPad App, Reminds Us What A ‘Sponsor’ Does — If you haven't yet caved to the New York Times paywall restrictions and ponied up the subscription fee, then you may have let your iPad app for the brand lie unused in recent months.

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