Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has been fired from her job

Carol Bartz has been fired from her job as Yahoo CEO and replaced on an interim basis by the company's chief financial officer, Tim Morse, according to news reports Tuesday.Yahoo has confirmed that Bartz is no longer CEO but no further details were immediately available, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal's All Things D blog.Bartz sent a brief e-mail to employees saying that she'd been fired by Yahoo's chairman, according to the TechCrunch website. 

"I am very sad to tell you that I've just been fired over the phone by Yahoo's Chairman of the Board. It has been my pleasure to work with all of you and I wish you only the best going forward," Bartz wrote to employees, according to TechCrunch.The struggling search company has created an "executive leadership council" to help Morse run the company and to conduct a "comprehensive strategic review" aimed at getting Yahoo back on a growth track. The council
includes Yahoo co-founders Jerry Yang and David Filo.