Yahoo! Newsis a news website that originated as an internet-basednews aggregatorbyYahoo!.The site was created by Yahoo! software engineer Brad Clawsie in August 1996. Articles originally came from news services such as theAssociated Press,Reuters,Fox News,Al Jazeera,ABC News,USA Today,CNNandBBC News.
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Type of site | News |
|---|---|
| Owner | Yahoo Inc. |
| Created by | Yahoo! |
| URL | news |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | August 1996[1] |
| Current status | Active |
In 2000, Yahoo! News launched pages tracking the content on the site that was most viewed and most shared by email. The "most emailed" page in particular was noted as an innovation in online news aggregation.[2]Yahoo! News allows users to comment on articles. Between late 2006 and early 2010, comments were disabled in part due to moderation challenges.[3]
By 2011, Yahoo had expanded its focus to include original content, as part of its plans to become a major media organization.[4]Veteran journalists (including Walter Shapiro andVirginia Heffernan) were hired, while the website had a correspondent in theWhite House press corpsfor the first time in February 2012.[4][5]An Amazon-owned marketing data collection company (Amazon Alexa) claimed Yahoo! News one of the world's top news sites, at this point.[6]Plans were made to add a Twitter feed.[7]In November, 2013, Yahoo hired formerTodayShowandCBS Evening NewsanchorKatie Couricas Global Anchor of Yahoo! News.[8]She left in 2017.[9]
On May 3, 2021, Verizon announced that the Verizon Media would be acquired byApollo Global Managementfor roughly $5 billion, and would simply be known as Yahoo following the closure of the deal, with Verizon retaining a minor 10% stake in the new group. The deal was closed on September 1, 2021.[10]
Yahoo! Celebrity
editYahoo! Celebrity (as omg!) debuted on June 12, 2007,[1]with little fanfare, with the original press release being published on Yahoo!'s corporate blog.[11]Upon launch,MediaWeekreported that Yahoo is hoping to skew more toward a female demographic with omg!, and thatUnilever,Pepsi,andAxiata(Celcom&XL) will be the sole official sponsors of the website. Due to heavy publicity on Yahoo's front page and with its partnerships, readership took off, with four million readers logging on to omg! in the first 19 days alone.[12]As of autumn 2007, omg! registered over eight million readers a month, and is the second most-read gossip website in the United States, ahead ofPeopleand behindTMZ.com.[12]
In December 2012, Yahoo! reached a deal withCBS Television Distributionto cross-promote itsEntertainment Tonightspin-offThe Insiderwith omg!, re-branding the show asomg! Insider.[13]In January 2014 it was announced that CBS Television Distribution was to revert the name change back toThe Insiderwhile omg! would become Yahoo! Celebrity.[14]
As part of an effort to increase reader trust, in September 2022, Yahoo! News (which aggregates articles from many other sources) acquired The Factual, a startup that usesartificial intelligenceto rate the credibility of individual articles.[15]
Mobile application
editYahoo! developed an application that collects the most-read news stories from different categories foriOSandAndroid.The app was one of the winners of 2014 Apple Design Awards.[16]
Ranking
editAs of January 2019, Yahoo! News ranked sixth among global news sites, ahead of Fox News and behindCNN,according toAlexa.[17]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ab"Yahoo! Inc. - Company Timeline".Wayback Machine.2008-07-13. Archived from the original on 2008-07-13.Retrieved2016-07-19.
{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^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.
- ^Tartakoff, Joseph (3 March 2010)."Yahoo News Brings News Commenting Back".PaidContent.Archived fromthe originalon 13 October 2012.
- ^abStableford, Dylan (2012-02-01)."Yahoo News hires Olivier Knox as its first White House correspondent".Yahoo! News.Retrieved2012-02-03.
- ^Byers, Dylan (2 February 2012)."Yahoo steals NY Times' Virginia Heffernan".Politico.Retrieved2012-02-03.
- ^"Top Sites by Category: News".Alexa. Archived fromthe originalon 2017-12-27.Retrieved2013-07-03.
- ^Rapaport, Lisa (2013-05-16)."Yahoo CEO Mayer Says Streaming News Will Display Tweets".Bloomberg.Retrieved2013-07-03.
- ^Gold, Hadas(25 November 2013)."Yahoo News makes Couric move official".Politico.Retrieved25 November2013.
- ^Katie Couric is ending her Yahoo interview show and departing OathArchivedAugust 11, 2017, at theWayback Machine;Recode;Kara Swisher; July 28, 2017.
- ^Lee, Edmund; Hirsch, Lauren (2021-05-02). "Verizon Near Deal to Sell Yahoo and AOL".The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331
- ^Goldman, Sibyl (2007-06-11)."Yahoo! has a new celebrity site? omg!".Yodel Anecdotal.Yahoo!. Archived fromthe originalon 2008-11-16.Retrieved2008-03-04.
- ^abHansell, Saul (2007-09-11)."OMG! Yahoo Has Copycat Gossip".BITS.The New York Times.Retrieved2008-03-04.
- ^Andreeva, Nellie (23 October 2012)."'The Insider' Signs Deal With Yahoo's Omg!, WIll Be Renamed 'Omg! Insider'".Deadline.com.Retrieved2012-10-24.
- ^Spangler, Todd (3 January 2014)."Yahoo Will Drop 'omg!' Brand from Celebrity News Site".Variety.Retrieved22 June2020.
- ^Exclusive: Yahoo buys The Factual to add news credibility ratings
- ^Rose, Mike (3 June 2014)."Threes, Monument Valley and more pick up Apple Design Awards".Gamasutra.Retrieved3 June2014.
- ^"News".Alexa.Archived fromthe originalon 2017-12-27.
External links
edit- Official website
- "Yahoo".Encyclo.Nieman Foundation for Journalism.Retrieved1 April2012.