Yahoo! News

Yahoo! News
Type of site
 News
Owner Oath Inc.
(Verizon Communications)
Created by Yahoo!
Website news.yahoo.com
Commercial Yes
Registration Optional
Launched August 1996 (1996-08)[1]
Current status Active

Yahoo! News is a news website that originated as an internet-based news aggregator by Yahoo!. Articles originally came from news services such as the Associated Press, Reuters, Fox News, Al Jazeera, ABC News, USA Today, CNN, BBC News, etc.

In 2001, Yahoo! News launched the first "most-emailed" page on the web. It was well-received as an innovative idea, expanding people's understanding of the impact that online news sources have on news consumption.[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.

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 and Virginia Heffernan) were hired, while the website had a correspondent in the White House press corps for the first time in February 2012.[4][5] An Amazon-owned marketing data collection company (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 former Today Show and CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric as Global Anchor of Yahoo! News.[8] She left in 2017.

Yahoo! Celebrity

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.[9] 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.[10] 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.[11] 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.[11]

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.[12]

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.[13]

Ranking

As of November 2014, Yahoo! News ranked second among global news sites, after reddit.com and ahead of CNN, according to Alexa.[14]

Inaccurate headline

Yahoo reportedly posted an article originally published by IBTimes, but with an inaccurate headline. The article, originally titled Latest 2016 Popular Vote Election Results: Clinton Leads Trump By 2.6 Million, Margin Grows As Votes Continue To Be Counted appeared on the Yahoo! site as Hillary Clinton Gets More Votes Than Any Candidate Ever. Rather than correct or retract the headline, Yahoo! News simply removed the article the same day, according to the Daily Wire.[15]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Yahoo! Inc. - Company Timeline". Wayback Machine. 2008-07-13. Archived from the original on 2008-07-13. Retrieved 2016-07-19.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Tartakoff, Joseph (3 March 2010). "Yahoo News Brings News Commenting Back". PaidContent. Archived from the original on 13 October 2012.
  4. 1 2 Stableford, Dylan (2012-02-01). "Yahoo News hires Olivier Knox as its first White House correspondent". Yahoo! News. Retrieved 2012-02-03.
  5. ↑ Byers, Dylan (2 February 2012). "Yahoo steals NY Times' Virginia Heffernan". Politico. Retrieved 2012-02-03.
  6. ↑ "Top Sites by Category: News". Alexa. Retrieved 2013-07-03.
  7. ↑ Rapaport, Lisa (2013-05-16). "Yahoo CEO Mayer Says Streaming News Will Display Tweets". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2013-07-03.
  8. ↑ Gold, Hadas. "Yahoo News makes Couric move official". Politico. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
  9. ↑ Goldman, Sibyl (2007-06-11). "Yahoo! has a new celebrity site? omg!". Yodel Anecdotal. Yahoo!. Retrieved 2008-03-04.
  10. ↑ Shields, Mike (2007-06-11). "omg! Yahoo Launches Celeb Channel". MediaWeek. Retrieved 2008-03-04.
  11. 1 2 Hansell, Saul (2007-09-11). "OMG! Yahoo Has Copycat Gossip". BITS. The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-03-04.
  12. ↑ Andreeva, Nellie. "'The Insider' Signs Deal With Yahoo's Omg!, WIll Be Renamed 'Omg! Insider'". Deadline.com. Retrieved 2012-10-24.
  13. ↑ Rose, Mike (3 June 2014). "Threes, Monument Valley and more pick up Apple Design Awards". Gamasutra. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
  14. ↑ Alexa.
  15. ↑ Camp, Frank (9 December 2016). "Yahoo Spreads Fake News Story Claiming Clinton Has Most Votes Ever Received". Daily Wire. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
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