Mediagazer: The Associated Press introduces a new...print product for members (Adrienne LaFrance/Nieman Journalism Lab)

10:10 AM ET, July 17, 2012

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

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: College Media Matters

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, The New Republic and The Huffington Post

Tanzina Vega / New York Times:
Times Names Buffalo News Editor as Its New Public Editor

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

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.

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 …

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

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 …

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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: The Next Web and Engadget

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 …

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 …

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Brian McAndrews on The New York Times, The Times-Picayune and the Future of News — The New York Times Co. last month moved to increase the digital IQ in its boardroom, naming MIT Media Lab Director Joichi Ito and Madrona Venture Group Partner Brian McAndrews its newest directors.