Aside from upcoming layoffs, it seemed as if Yahoo had stanched the flow of major execs from the company.

Not so, it seems, as sources with knowledge of the situation confirm that the two top execs of the troubled Internet company’s media unit will be announcing their departures later this week.

SVP Scott Moore, who runs Yahoo’s media group out of its offices in Santa Monica, Calif., and also Al Warms, who came to Yahoo from its BuzzTracker acquisition last year, will both be leaving, although it is not clear what their plans are.

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Scott Moore, who runs the Yahoo Media Group, sat down with BoomTown at the company’s Santa Monica headquarters last week to talk about the future direction of content at the company.

While the Media unit has had its ups and downs over the years about exactly what it should be–such as the controversial Hollywood-esque Lloyd Braun strategy–one thing that Yahoo has consistently done well is to aggregate and distribute its own and others’ content.

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It’s starting to feel like a murder mystery over at Yahoo these days, as one vice president after another drops off the senior management rolls at the Internet giant.

Next to go are VP of Media Engineering Bharath Kadaba and the higher profile Rachel Glaser, a senior vice president of operations finance. (Both are pictured here.)
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This weekend, as first reported by the most excellent Staci Kramer at paidContent, Yahoo did yet another Yet Another Hierarchical Officious (re-)Organization (YAHOO!).
Memo to CEO Jerry Yang, who is apparently still so annoyed with BoomTown’s spiky posts on Yahoo’s troubles–we have sources too, you know–that lunch together seems a distant dream: We like it!
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Despite a lot of noisy speculation all around the Internet yesterday about big changes afoot, let me give you the skinny on exactly what is going to happen today at Yahoo when all its top brass gather at its Sunnyvale headquarters for an all-day confab.

Some lovely breakfast pastries. Blah, blah, blah, better corporate culture! A doubtlessly tasty lunch. More blah, blah, blah, more content and ad coordination! Some yummy afternoon snacks. Blah, blah, blah, we really appreciate your efforts and goodbye!

Other than that: A whole lot of nothing.

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