Mediagazer: ‘Rock Center’ IS On NBC's Fall Schedule (Alex Weprin/TVNewser)

7:35 PM ET, May 13, 2012

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Yahoo's Thompson Out; Levinsohn In; Board Settlement With Loeb Nears Completion — Yahoo's embattled CEO Scott Thompson (pictured here) is set to step down from his job at the Silicon Valley Internet giant, in what will be a dramatic end to a controversy over a fake computer science degree …

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Yahoo! Names Fred Amoroso Chairman and Appoints Ross Levinsohn Interim CEO — Board Announces Settlement with Third Point LLC — SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) today announced that the Board of Directors has named Fred Amoroso as Chairman of the Board of Directors …

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Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook:

Meet Yahoo's New Interim Chief, Ross Levinsohn — Yahoo's revolving door of chief executives has turned again. — Scott Thompson, Yahoo's chief executive of just four months, will leave following a growing controversy over his embellished academic record, according to people briefed on the matter.

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

Newsweek Cover: ‘The First Gay President’ — The May 21, 2012, issue of Newsweek (used with permission of the publisher). — “'Let the games begin,” Tina Brown said last week after Time Magazine released its controversial breastfeeding cover. — Brown, whose tenure as editor at Newsweek …

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Google's head of news: Newspapers are the new Yahoo — Google has a somewhat tense relationship with the traditional newspaper industry, since publishers like News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch still believe it is depriving them of revenue by “stealing” their content and aggregating it at Google News.

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

My personal take: 3 reasons I don't like newspaper paywalls — We've written a lot at GigaOM about the rise of newspaper paywalls, a trend that seems to be accelerating as the financial health of the industry continues to deteriorate, and in particular I've written a number of posts about what I see as the downsides of paywalls.

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Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

‘Rock Center’ IS On NBC's Fall Schedule — Great news for fans of NBC's primetime newsmagazine “Rock Center with Brian Williams,” the program is on the network's Fall schedule which was just announced this afternoon, and will be formally unveiled at tomorrow's upfront.

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Al Jazeera: One Name, Two Channels — Many loyal Al Jazeera English viewers worldwide are drawn to the television network because of its insightful coverage of last year's Arab Spring uprisings - and its in-depth reporting from the developing world. Since its creation in 2006 …

Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:

Jason Horowitz and ‘The Washington Post’ won, and the rest is political noise — There were lots of moments in Jason Horowitz's piece in The Washington Post yesterday morning about presidential candidate Mitt Romney's high-school days at the elite Cranbrook Schools in Michigan.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Washington Post adds Editor's Note to Romney bullying story; Ombud weighs in

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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Tamron Hall Reams Tim Carney, Cuts His Mic For Accusing Her Of ‘Media Trick’

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Estelle Shirbon / Reuters:

Britain's Cameron feels wrath of Murdoch press — (Reuters) - Embarrassed by revelations of how he cozied up to Rupert Murdoch's scandal-hit British newspaper group, Prime Minister David Cameron has now lost what the relationship was supposed to deliver: support from the Murdoch press.

Mark Hannah / MediaShift:

Will Online Video Coverage of U.S. Election Eat into Text-Based Stories? — As I've read up online about the 2012 campaign news in recent months, I've noticed I'm doing a lot less, well, reading. I've checked around a bit and confirmed that websites that traditionally focus on text-based journalism …

Neal Ungerleider / Fast Company:

Twitter Developing Original Sports Content — @JohnMadden @MarvAlbert @BobCostas Watch your backs. #TwitterSports. — Sports fans are one of Twitter's core audiences. The microblogging giant hasn't been shy about their interest in working with established brands …

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Time's Perfect Controversy: Advertisers, Retailers Fine With Breast-feeding Cover — Gets More Subscription Orders in One Day Than the Whole Week Before — Time may have just stoked the perfect controversy: It got everybody talking but made very few people actually angry.

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