 | |
Type of site | News |
|---|---|
| Owner | Yahoo! Inc. |
| Created by | Yahoo! |
| URL | news |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | August 1996; 29 years ago (1996-08)[1] |
| Current status | Active |
Yahoo News (stylized asYahoo! News) is a news website that originated as an internet-basednews aggregator byYahoo.
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,CNN andBBC News.
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 corps for the first time in February 2012.[4][5] An Amazon-owned marketing data collection company (Alexa Internet) 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 formerToday Show andCBS Evening News anchorKatie Couric as Global Anchor of Yahoo News.[8] She left in 2017.[9]
On May 3, 2021, Verizon announced that Verizon Media would be acquired byApollo Global Management for 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]
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 intelligence to rate the credibility of individual articles.[11] In April 2024, Yahoo acquired the recently defunct news appArtifact, integrating its technology into an upgraded version of Yahoo News.[12]
Yahoo Celebrity (as omg!) debuted on June 12, 2007,[1] with little fanfare, with the original press release being published on Yahoo's corporate blog.[13] Upon launch,MediaWeek reported that Yahoo was hoping to skew more toward a female demographic with omg!, and thatUnilever,Pepsi, andAxiata (Celcom &XL) would 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.[14] By autumn 2007, omg! registered over eight million readers a month, and became the second most-read gossip website in the United States, ahead ofPeople and behindTMZ.com.[14]
In December 2012, Yahoo reached a deal withCBS Television Distribution to cross-promote itsEntertainment Tonight spin-offThe Insider with omg!, re-branding the show asomg! Insider.[15] In January 2014, it was announced that CBS Television Distribution was to revert the name change back toThe Insider while omg! would become Yahoo Celebrity.[16]
Yahoo developed an application that collects the most-read news stories from different categories foriOS andAndroid. The app was one of the winners of 2014Apple Design Awards.[17]
As of January 2019, Yahoo News ranked sixth among global news sites, ahead ofFox News and behindCNN, according toAlexa.[18]
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
| Websites | |
|---|---|
| Communication | |
| Corporate | |
| Defunct services | |
| Related people | |
| Related | |
