Yahoo! News
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| URL | news.yahoo.com |
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| Commercial? | Yes[citation needed] |
| Type of site | News |
| Registration | Optional |
| Owner | Yahoo! |
| Created by | Yahoo! |
| Current status | Active |
Yahoo! News is an Internet-based news aggregator provided by Yahoo!. It categorises 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 ass Associated Press (AP), Reuters, Agence France-Presse (AFP), Fox News, Christian Science Monitor, NPR, USA Today, CNN.com, CBC News, Seven News, BBC News, and others.[citation needed]
In 2001, Yahoo! News launched the first most emailed page on the web.[1] The idea was created and implemented[2] by its 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 named: 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]
[edit] Ranking
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/NetRatings.[33]
[edit] References
- ^ New Economy; Yahoo charts the spread of the news by e-mail, and what it finds out is itself becoming news.
- ^ created and implemented
- ^ Tony Tam, Software Engineer for Yahoo!
- ^ Yahoo News Brings News Commenting Back. - New York Times
- ^ 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
- ^ a b Stableford, Dylan (2012-02-01). "Yahoo News hires Olivier Knox as its first White House correspondent". Yahoo! News. http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/yahoo-news-hires-olivier-knox-first-white-house-114041483.html;_ylt=AmQKldiuN3XsHrcOEgFyZfGXCMZ_;_ylu=X3oDMTFkMmFzbGIwBG1pdANCbG9nIEJvZHkEcG9zAzQEc2VjA01lZGlhQmxvZ0JvZHlBc3NlbWJseQ--;_ylg=X3oDMTNkYjBwZ3I5BGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDOTI5ZWNhYzMtNzU0My0zMjk2LTkwMTItOTg0ZTIwNjcyYjJiBHBzdGNhdANvcmlnaW5hbHN8dGhlY3V0bGluZQRwdANzdG9yeXBhZ2UEdGVzdAM-;_ylv=3. Retrieved 2012-02-03.
- ^ Byers, Dylan (2012-02-02). "Yahoo steals NY Times' Virginia Heffernan". Politico. http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/02/yahoo-steals-ny-times-virginia-heffernan-113321.html. Retrieved 2012-02-03.
- ^ Top 30 global news sites for April 2009 Editor & Publisher Published 20 May 2009.
[edit] External links
- Yahoo! News
- "More on Google News and Yahoo! News"
- "Balancing Act: How News Portals Serve Up Political Stories"
- "Columbia Journalism Review News Frontier Database"
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