Yahoo! News

Yahoo News
Web address news.yahoo.com
Commercial Yes
Type of site
 News
Registration Optional
Owner Yahoo
Created by Yahoo
Current status Active

Yahoo News originated as an internet-based news aggregator by Yahoo. Articles originally came from news services such as Associated Press, Reuters, Fox News, ABC News, USA Today, CNN.com, BBC News and etc.

In 2001, Yahoo News launched the first "most-emailed" page on the web.[1] It was a well-received innovative idea, expanding on how computers could be used to do things in a society.

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

In June 2011, Yahoo News was rebuilt using an internal content management system called the Yahoo Publishing Platform.[3] The same platform now powers Yahoo News in the following regions and languages: Argentina,[4] Brazil,[5] Canada,[6] English,[7] Chile,[8] Colombia,[9] Mexico,[10] Peru,[11] Spanish (US),[12] English (US),[13] Venezuela,[14] Hong Kong,[15] English (India),[16] Marathi,[17] Tamil,[18] Indonesia,[19] Malaysia,[20] Philippines,[21] Singapore,[22] Taiwan,[23] France,[24] Germany,[25] Italy,[26] Spain,[27] and the United Kingdom.[28]

By 2011, Yahoo had expanded its focus to include original content, as part of its plans to become a major media organization.[29] 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.[29][30] An Amazon-owned marketing data collection company (Alexa) claimed Yahoo News one of the world's top news sites, at this point.[31]

Plans were made to add a Twitter feed. [32] And, in November, 2013, Yahoo hired former CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric as Global Anchor of Yahoo News.[33]

Yahoo! Celebrity

Yahoo! Celebrity as omg! debuted in June 2007 with little fanfare, with the original press release being published on Yahoo!'s corporate blog.[34] Upon launch, MediaWeek reported that Yahoo is hoping to skew more toward a female demographic with omg!, and that Unilever, Pepsi, and Axiata (Celcom & XL) will be the sole official sponsors of the website.[35] 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.[36] 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 of People and behind TMZ.com.[36]

In December 2012, Yahoo! reached a deal with CBS Television Distribution to cross-promote its Entertainment Tonight spin-off The Insider with omg!, re-branding the show as omg! Insider.[37]

In January, 2014 it was announced that CBS Television Distribution was to revert the name change back to The Insider while omg! changes its name to Yahoo! Celebrity.

Mobile application

Yahoo! developed an application that collects the most-read news stories from different categories for iOS and Android. The app was one of the winners of 2014 Apple Design Awards.[38]

Ranking

As of November 2014, Yahoo News ranked second among global news sites, after reddit.com and ahead of CNN, according to Alexa.[39]

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Tartakoff, Joseph (3 March 2010). "Yahoo News Brings News Commenting Back". PaidContent. Archived from the original on 13 October 2012.
  3. ↑ Y! News: An Inside Look at Rebuilding the Largest News Site on the Web
  4. ↑ Argentina
  5. ↑ Brazil
  6. ↑ French
  7. ↑ English
  8. ↑ Chile
  9. ↑ Colombia
  10. ↑ Mexico
  11. ↑ Peru
  12. ↑ Spanish
  13. ↑ English
  14. ↑ Venezuela
  15. ↑ Hong Kong
  16. ↑ English
  17. ↑ Marathi
  18. ↑ Tamil
  19. ↑ Indonesia
  20. ↑ Malaysia
  21. ↑ Philippines
  22. ↑ Singapore
  23. ↑ Taiwan
  24. ↑ France
  25. ↑ Germany
  26. ↑ Italy
  27. ↑ Spain
  28. ↑ United Kingdom
  29. 1 2 Stableford, Dylan (2012-02-01). "Yahoo News hires Olivier Knox as its first White House correspondent". Yahoo News. Retrieved 2012-02-03.
  30. ↑ Byers, Dylan (2 February 2012). "Yahoo steals NY Times' Virginia Heffernan". Politico. Retrieved 2012-02-03.
  31. ↑ "Top Sites by Category: News". Alexa. Retrieved 2013-07-03.
  32. ↑ Rapaport, Lisa (2013-05-16). "Yahoo CEO Mayer Says Streaming News Will Display Tweets". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2013-07-03.
  33. ↑ Gold, Hadas. "Yahoo News makes Couric move official". Politico. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
  34. ↑ Goldman, Sibyl (2007-06-11). "Yahoo! has a new celebrity site? omg!". Yodel Anecdotal (Yahoo!). Retrieved 2008-03-04.
  35. ↑ Shields, Mike (2007-06-11). "omg! Yahoo Launches Celeb Channel". MediaWeek. Retrieved 2008-03-04.
  36. 1 2 Hansell, Saul (2007-09-11). "OMG! Yahoo Has Copycat Gossip". BITS (The New York Times). Retrieved 2008-03-04.
  37. ↑ Andreeva, Nellie. "'The Insider' Signs Deal With Yahoo's Omg!, WIll Be Renamed 'Omg! Insider'". Deadline.com. Retrieved 2012-10-24.
  38. ↑ Rose, Mike (3 June 2014). "Threes, Monument Valley and more pick up Apple Design Awards". Gamasutra. UBM TechWeb. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
  39. ↑ Alexa.

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