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12:15 PM 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 …

Discussion: Yahoo! Pressroom Home, The Atlantic Online, Fast Company, The Wrap, Media Decoder, Gawker, Betabeat, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Uncrunched, Fortune, mediabistro.com, New York Times, Bits, CNN, Search Engine Land, The Week, Marketing Pilgrim, @marissamayer, Washington Post, ThinkProgress, The Next Web, AllThingsD, Business Insider, Mashable!, Techland, Deal Journal, AllThingsD, HBR.org, Business Week, MediaNama, New York Magazine, ZDNet, CNET, The Daily Caller, ReadWriteWeb, Forbes Real Time, BuzzFeed, PandoDaily, Garcia Media, Wall Street Journal, Mashable!, Hollywood Life, Forrester Blogs, Adweek, Local Media Watch, Softpedia News, LiveSide.net, The Tell, PC Magazine, Daily Download, Reuters, paidContent, Jezebel, VentureBeat, @jasonhirschhorn, @rafat, The Next Web, @parislemon, @adamweinstein, @antderosa, @megan, eMedia Vitals, FishbowlNY, Engadget, GeekWire, USA Today, The Verge, SocialTimes, Tech Trader Daily, Online NewsHour, TechCrunch, Betabeat, Hillicon Valley, Daring Fireball, AllThingsD, New York Times and The Loop

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: Forbes Real Time, Erik Wemple, TechCrunch, NetNewsCheck Latest, Telegraph, The Daily Beast, Pocket-lint, paidContent, TelecomTV and Fast Company

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: Business Insider and Multichannel

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: The Huffington Post, entertainment.time.com, ANIMAL, New York Magazine and Guardian

Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
The Evolution of Reporters Into Stenographers Is Nearly Complete

Discussion: Guardian, Chickaboomer, Washington Wire, Hot Air, New York Times and @jeffjarvis

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: Media Matters for America, SulliView, The Huffington Post, The New Republic, Buffalo News, JIMROMENESKO.COM, CJR and New York Times

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.

Kristal Brent Zook / CJR:

Do they get that it's wrong? — Journalism students can be “truly baffled” when confronted for plagiarism — Perhaps Liane Membis, the Wall Street Journal intern fired recently for inventing quotes, started out with noble intentions. As Miss Black America-Connecticut last year …

J.K. Trotter / IvyGate:
Fired WSJ Intern Had Troubling Start at the Yale Daily News, Required Longest Correction in Years

Discussion: mediabistro.com and College Media Matters

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Barnes & Noble launches cloud-based reading platform Nook for Web — About a year after Amazon launched Kindle Cloud Reader, Barnes & Noble is getting into the cloud-based reading game with Nook for Web. — Users can sample books for free from any PC or Mac browser without logging in.

Discussion: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, CNET, PC Magazine, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, Softpedia News, Engadget and WebProNews

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: Adweek, Business Insider, TVNewser, AdAge, Media Decoder, Los Angeles Times and Deadline.com

Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Associated Press introduces a new...print product for members — At a time when “digital first” is the slogan du jour in newspaper corner offices, the Associated Press is offering its subscribers a product — one that's meant to be printed out, ink-on-paper style.

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: Multichannel News, VentureBeat and paidContent

Ryan Nakashima / Associated Press: TV Channel Blackouts Stall Profits

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

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, Nxtblog and FishbowlNY

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

San Francisco Chronicle will review Journatic content — Journalism-outsourcing firm Journatic is under so many reviews it'll soon need its own Metacritic page. The San Francisco Chronicle is now looking at the company's work, Emily Lambert reports in Crain's Chicago Business …

Discussion: Fog City Journal and Chicago Business