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9:15 AM ET, July 17, 2012

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Google's Marissa Mayer Becomes Yahoo's Chief — Marissa Mayer, one of the top executives at Google, will be the next C.E.O. of Yahoo, making her one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley and corporate America. — The appointment of Ms. Mayer, who was employee No. 20 at Google …

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

The Marissa Mayer Yahoo Show, Brought to You by Daniel Loeb — The appointment of Marissa Mayer as CEO of Yahoo earlier today was a definitively splashy move by the board of the troubled Internet giant. — And a key impresario of the showy hiring of the high-profile Google exec?

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Telegraph, The Daily Beast, Forbes Real Time, Pocket-lint, TelecomTV and Fast Company

Bill Mitchell / Poynter:

New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan signs on for 4 years — The new public editor of the New York Times pitched the paper on two main roles in her application for the job: “smart aggregator” and “forum organizer.” — Margaret M. Sullivan, editor of the Buffalo News since 1999 …

Discussion: The New Republic and The Huffington Post

Tanzina Vega / New York Times:

Times Names Buffalo News Editor as Its New Public Editor — The New York Times announced on Monday that Margaret M. Sullivan, the editor and vice president of the Buffalo News, will become the Times's new public editor. — Ms. Sullivan will be the paper's fifth public editor and the first woman to hold the position.

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

Why Murdoch's The Daily Doesn't Fly — Is there a future for The Daily? According to last week's reports by The New York Observer and The New York Times, News Corp's “tablet newspaper” is on probation: Rupert Murdoch might pull the plug on The Daily which looses $30 million a year.

Discussion: CJR, NetNewsCheck Latest and FishbowlNY

Rick Edmonds / Poynter:

Paywall pioneer Augusta Chronicle simplifies its digital subscriptions — One of the nation's first newspapers to implement and master the intricacies of a digital paywall plan is radically simplifying it. — Effective immediately, The Augusta Chronicle will stop offering print-only subscriptions …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and Change of Subject

Daniel Frankel / GigaOM:

DirecTV CEO: “Viacom is forcing this bundle on you, not us” — Does DirecTV CEO Mike White really support a TV distribution model in which consumers get to make a la carte choices on the channels they receive? — With DirecTV's 20 million U.S. subscribers blacked out from Viacom's 26 …

Discussion: paidContent

Ryan Nakashima / Associated Press: TV Channel Blackouts Stall Profits

Reuters:

Anna Politkovskaya killing: former Moscow policeman charged — Russian investigators have charged a former policeman with helping to organise the killing of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya almost six years ago. The case, which has come to symbolise the suppression of free speech …

Brent Lang / The Wrap:

Larry King Coming to Hulu in Deal With Ora TV — Break out the suspenders, because legendary cable news talk show host Larry King is diving into the world of video streaming with a deal with Hulu that kicks off Tuesday. — Ora TV, the new digital TV network King launched this year …

Discussion: Media Decoder, Los Angeles Times and Deadline.com

Paul Friedman / CJR:

Weighing anchors — The nightly newscasts are retooling to suit their stars, and it's working—for now — Five days before Christmas, on the night Congress deadlocked on payroll tax rates and unemployment benefits affecting more than 160 million Americans, the first story on World News …

J.K. Trotter / IvyGate:

Fired WSJ Intern Had Troubling Start at the Yale Daily News, Required Longest Correction in Years — Significant reporting errors at the Yale Daily News foreshadowed the fate of Liane Membis, the Wall Street Journal intern who was dismissed in late June for fabricating quotes.

Discussion: College Media Matters

Anne-Laure Mondesert / AFP:

21,000 journalists swarm into London for Olympics — With less than two weeks to go before the Olympic Games, hordes of competitors are pouring into London from across the globe and limbering up — but they're not athletes. — Promising coverage on an unprecedented scale and record-breaking use …

Discussion: Guardian