Yahoo's New CEO is Carol Bartz

Ed: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon have been led by technologists. Media companies like NY Times and Timer Warner haven't figured the formula for success. Past Yahoo leadership has been from media. 

Why would a media leader be the best choice ;-)

from John Battelle's Searchblog

Not a lot of media experience in this choice, reported here by the WSJ. Kara had speculated on this previously.

Bartz has a lot of experience in other parts of the technology world, to be sure, and is widely respected. And I love that her former company, Autodesk, is in Marin, where I founded FM. But it does strike me that Yahoo needs a stronger suite of media-savvy executives now that Weiner and Rosensweig are gone.

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New York Times: We're Not Going Bankrupt In May (NYT)

from Silicon Alley Insider by Henry Blodget

The New York Times Company responded in detail to Michael Hirschorn's article in the Atlantic worrying that the company might go bankrupt in May. NYTCo's bottom line? We're not dead yet...