Yahoo! News

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Yahoo! News
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URL news.yahoo.com
Commercial? Yes
Type of site News
Registration Optional
Owner Yahoo!
Created by Yahoo!
Editor Hillary Frey[1]
Current status Active

Yahoo! News is an Internet-based news aggregator by Yahoo!. It categorizes news into "Top Stories", "U.S. National", "World", "Business", "Entertainment", "Science", "Health", "Weather", "Most Popular", "News Photos", "Op/Ed", and "Local News".

Articles in Yahoo! News come from news services, such as Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, Fox News, ABC News, NPR, USA Today, CNN.com, CBC News, Seven News, and BBC News.

In 2001 Yahoo! News launched the first "most-emailed" page on the web.[2] The idea was created and implemented by Yahoo! software engineer Tony Tam.[3]

Yahoo! allowed comments for news articles until December 19, 2006, when commentary was disabled. Comments were re-enabled on March 2, 2010.[4] Comments were temporarily disabled between December 10, 2011, and December 15, 2011, due to glitches.[citation needed]

In June 2011, Yahoo! News was rebuilt using an internal content management system called the Yahoo! Publishing Platform.[5] The same platform now powers Yahoo! News in the following regions and languages: Argentina,[6] Brazil,[7] Canada,[8] English,[9] Chile,[10] Colombia,[11] Mexico,[12] Peru,[13] Spanish (US),[14] English (US),[15]], Venezuela,[16] Hong Kong,[17] English (India),[18] Marathi,[19] Tamil,[20] Indonesia,[21] Malaysia,[22] Philippines,[23] Singapore,[24] Taiwan,[25] France,[26] Germany,[27] Italy,[28] Spain,[29] and the United Kingdom.[30]

Since 2011 Yahoo! has expanded its focus to include original content, as part of its plans to become a major media organization.[31] Veteran journalists, including Walter Shapiro and Virginia Heffernan, were hired, while the website had a correspondent in the White House press corps for the first time in February 2012.[31][32] Alexa lists Yahoo! News as one of the world's top news sites. [33]

On August 29, 2012, Yahoo! News fired Washington bureau chief David Chalian after he made a disparaging comment about Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney and his wife Ann Romney during the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida. With Hurricane Isaac entering Louisiana, Chalian suggested that "They're not concerned at all. They're happy to have a party with black people drowning".[34]

According to an interview with Yahoo!’s CEO Marissa Mayer Yahoo! News will start displaying Twitter updates alongside news on both Desktop and Mobile in the United States in May 2013. [35]

Ranking [edit]

In April 2009, Yahoo! News ranked second among global news sites in users from the United States, after msnbc.com and ahead of CNN, according to Nielsen Ratings.[36]

References [edit]

  1. ^ Hillary Frey Named Yahoo News Editor in Chief
  2. ^ LiCalzi O'Connell, Pamela (29 January 2001). "New Economy; Yahoo Charts the Spread of the News by E-Mail, and What It Finds Out Is Itself Becoming News.". New York Times. 
  3. ^ Tam, Tony (3 December 2007). "Most E-Mailed News: 7 Years Ago". 
  4. ^ Yahoo News Brings News Commenting Back. New York Times
  5. ^ Y! News: An Inside Look at Rebuilding the Largest News Site on the Web
  6. ^ Argentina
  7. ^ Brazil
  8. ^ French
  9. ^ English
  10. ^ Chile
  11. ^ Colombia
  12. ^ Mexico
  13. ^ Peru
  14. ^ Spanish
  15. ^ English
  16. ^ Venezuela
  17. ^ Hong Kong
  18. ^ English
  19. ^ Marathi
  20. ^ Tamil
  21. ^ Indonesia
  22. ^ Malaysia
  23. ^ Philippines
  24. ^ Singapore
  25. ^ Taiwan
  26. ^ France
  27. ^ Germany
  28. ^ Italy
  29. ^ Spain
  30. ^ United Kingdom
  31. ^ a b Stableford, Dylan (2012-02-01). "Yahoo News hires Olivier Knox as its first White House correspondent". Yahoo! News. Retrieved 2012-02-03. 
  32. ^ Byers, Dylan (2 February 2012-). "Yahoo steals NY Times' Virginia Heffernan". Politico. Retrieved 2012-02-03. 
  33. ^ [1]
  34. ^ [2] Politico Published 29 Aug 2012.
  35. ^ http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-16/yahoo-ceo-mayer-says-streaming-news-will-display-tweets.html
  36. ^ Top 30 global news sites for April 2009 Editor & Publisher Published 20 May 2009.

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