Mediagazer: Months of Transition Ahead for NBC News Online (Brian Stelter/Media Decoder)

10:15 PM ET, July 17, 2012

Top News:

Howard Kurtz Doesn't Understand Sexism — Or The Marissa Mayer Phenomenon — Yesterday, Yahoo announced that Marissa Mayer, a high-powered Google executive, would become its new CEO. This was historic on a number of levels: For starters, she joined a group of just 18 other women who are currently CEOs at Fortune 500 companies.

Discussion: Forbes Real Time, mediabistro.com, msnbc.com, The Week and The Daily Beast

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Ten Questions for New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer (This Won't Hurt a Bit! Okay, Just a Little.) — Today will be Marissa Mayer's first day at Yahoo as its newest fearless leader. — Besides Yahoos sighing collectively at the prospect of yet another all-hands meeting to get a gander at their latest CEO …

Discussion: Forbes Real Time, Bits, Business Insider, New York Times, MediaFile, Multichannel, TVWeek.com and AllThingsD

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Why Marissa Mayer may not be a good fit for Yahoo — In a bombshell announcement that sent shock waves through the entire technology sector, former Google executive Marissa Mayer has become the new chief executive officer of Yahoo:the fifth CEO the faded web giant has had in five years.

Discussion: Forbes Real Time, paidContent, CNET, Uncrunched, The Atlantic Online, Business Insider, Wired and Fortune, Thanks:@mathewi

Steve Myers / Poynter:

AP doesn't let sources approve quotes beforehand — New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters pulled back the curtain on political reporting Monday, revealing that many reporters now allow sources with the presidential campaigns to approve the quotes that will appear in their stories.

Discussion: American Journalism Review, Forbes Real Time, Innovation in College Media, Media, disrupted, Michelle Malkin, The Huffington Post, Chickaboomer, entertainment.time.com and Washington Wire

Erik Wemple:
New York Times reviews quote-approval policy

Discussion: Guardian and The Huffington Post

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Guardian's ‘digital-first’ means more losses, more lay-offs — Guardian News & Media is re-opening its voluntary redundancy programme after its “digital-first” survival strategy's first year resulted in much higher company losses. — Operating loss grew 42 percent from £33.1 million …

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Guardian and Observer report losses of £44.2m — The Guardian and the Observer lost £44.2m last year as investment in digital publishing - including iPad, Facebook and Android apps - contributed to a deepening of losses at the national newspapers that could not be offset by double-digit growth in digital revenues.

Discussion: Sydney Morning Herald, Financial Times, Media Week, Telegraph and Guardian

Dave Winer:

What is a Public Editor? — The NY Times, as far as I know, invented the idea of a public editor, so I suppose it's up to them to decide what one is. That would be fair. But life isn't fair. — A public editor should be, imho, the representative of The Public, on the payroll of a news organization.

Bill Mitchell / Poynter:
New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan signs on for 4 years

Discussion: The New York Observer, Media Matters for America, SulliView, Poynter, The Huffington Post, The New Republic and New York Times

Jim Romenesko:

Union: NYT wants to negotiate separate contracts for print and digital — The Newspaper Guild of New York says New York Times negotiators “inexplicably dropped a bomb on the process today by presenting two new comprehensive proposals aimed at negotiating two separate contracts: print and digital.”

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Months of Transition Ahead for NBC News Online — For Web users, the transition from MSNBC.com to NBCNews.com is an easy one. The old domain name automatically started to redirect to the new one on Sunday night. — But for the companies and the employees involved, it's more complicated.

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab and Digiday

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Study: News websites link to themselves 91% of the time — Mainstream news organizations use hyperlinks to add context to their pieces, says a study by Mark Coddington at the University of Texas at Austin. Independent bloggers are more likely to use links socially or as a way to frame their arguments.

Larry Kramer / C-Scape:

How Print Can Help Lead The Way Into The Digital Future — Today we launched the “TV On The Web” section of the USA Today Life Section. And we did so in the printed newspaper first. — Sounds a bit backwards, you say? Actually, it's a great example of how various forms of media can compliment each other.

Discussion: paidContent and Editor & Publisher ®

Dylan Byers / Politico:

VP Laura Evans leaves the Washington Post — The Washington Post's Laura Evans has become the fourth executive to leave the company this year. — In a memo to staff, obtained by POLITICO, the Post announced that Evans, the company's VP of Research and Chief Experience Officer …

Discussion: Poynter