Yahoo! News
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| Web address | news.yahoo.com |
|---|---|
| Commercial? | Yes |
| Type of site | News |
| Registration | Optional |
| Owner | Yahoo |
| Created by | Yahoo |
| Current status | Active |
Yahoo News used to be a pure 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 used to only 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.[1] The idea was created and implemented by Yahoo software engineer Tony Tam.[2]
Yahoo allowed comments for news articles until December 19, 2006, when commentary was disabled. Comments were re-enabled on March 2, 2010.[3] 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.[4] The same platform now powers Yahoo News in the following regions and languages: Argentina,[5] Brazil,[6] Canada,[7] English,[8] Chile,[9] Colombia,[10] Mexico,[11] Peru,[12] Spanish (US),[13] English (US),[14]], Venezuela,[15] Hong Kong,[16] English (India),[17] Marathi,[18] Tamil,[19] Indonesia,[20] Malaysia,[21] Philippines,[22] Singapore,[23] Taiwan,[24] France,[25] Germany,[26] Italy,[27] Spain,[28] and the United Kingdom.[29]
Since 2011 Yahoo has expanded its focus to include original content, as part of its plans to become a major media organization.[30] 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.[30][31] Alexa lists Yahoo News as one of the world's top news sites.[32]
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".[33]
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.[34]
In November 2013, Mayer announced Yahoo had hired former CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric as Global Anchor of Yahoo News.[35]
Ranking
In April 2009, Yahoo News ranked second among global news sites in terms of users from the United States, after msnbc.com and ahead of CNN, according to Nielsen Ratings.[36]
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Tam, Tony (3 December 2007). "Most E-Mailed News: 7 Years Ago".
- ↑ Tartakoff, Joseph (3 March 2010). "Yahoo News Brings News Commenting Back". PaidContent. Archived from the original on 13 October 2012.
- ↑ Y! News: An Inside Look at Rebuilding the Largest News Site on the Web
- ↑ Argentina
- ↑ Brazil
- ↑ French
- ↑ English
- ↑ Chile
- ↑ Colombia
- ↑ Mexico
- ↑ Peru
- ↑ Spanish
- ↑ English
- ↑ Venezuela
- ↑ Hong Kong
- ↑ English
- ↑ Marathi
- ↑ Tamil
- ↑ Indonesia
- ↑ Malaysia
- ↑ Philippines
- ↑ Singapore
- ↑ Taiwan
- ↑ France
- ↑ Germany
- ↑ Italy
- ↑ Spain
- ↑ United Kingdom
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 Stableford, Dylan (2012-02-01). "Yahoo News hires Olivier Knox as its first White House correspondent". Yahoo News. Retrieved 2012-02-03.
- ↑ Byers, Dylan (2 February 2012). "Yahoo steals NY Times' Virginia Heffernan". Politico. Retrieved 2012-02-03.
- ↑ "Top Sites by Category: News". Alexa. Retrieved 2013-07-03.
- ↑ Politico Published 29 Aug 2012.
- ↑ Rapaport, Lisa (2013-05-16). "Yahoo CEO Mayer Says Streaming News Will Display Tweets". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2013-07-03.
- ↑ Gold, Hadas. "Yahoo News makes Couric move official". Politico. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
- ↑ Top 30 global news sites for April 2009 Editor & Publisher Published 20 May 2009.
External links
- Yahoo News
- Yahoo! News on Google+
- "More on Google News and Yahoo News"
- "Balancing Act: How News Portals Serve Up Political Stories"
- "Columbia Journalism Review News Frontier Database"
- Nieman Journalism Lab. "Yahoo". Encyclo: an Encyclopedia of the Future of News. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
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