All Headline News
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All Headline News is a United States
based news agency
or wire service
. Launched in 2003 it has grown to become a major worldwide online news wire service, providing news and other content, to websites, digital signage
, and other publishers who pay a fee for the service.
The company's daily news coverage includes international headline news, business, entertainment, celebrity gossip, sports, technology, health and politics. The company also provides a variety of non-editorial content services such as weather, horoscopes, trivia and business data.
AHN's primary focus is breaking headline news and a small investigative news effort.
, Asia
, and Africa
.
AHN editors are located in various cities in the United States and abroad and manage electronic news gathering operations using a proprietary news content management system called NewsBahn.
AHN produces over 100,000 news articles a year.
, claiming that AHN allegedly infringed on its copyrights and its hot news, a contentious 'quasi-property' right to facts. The AP complaint asserted that AHN reporters had copied facts from AP news reports without paying a syndication fee. After AHN moved to dismiss all but the copyright claims set forth by AP, a portion of the lawsuit was dismissed. According to court documents, the case has been dismissed and settled.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
based news agency
News agency
A news agency is an organization of journalists established to supply news reports to news organizations: newspapers, magazines, and radio and television broadcasters. Such an agency may also be referred to as a wire service, newswire or news service.-History:The oldest news agency is Agence...
or wire service
Wire Service
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. Launched in 2003 it has grown to become a major worldwide online news wire service, providing news and other content, to websites, digital signage
Digital signage
Digital signage is a form of electronic display that shows television programming, menus, information, advertising and other messages. Digital signs can be found in public and private environments, such as retail stores, hotels, restaurants and corporate buildings.Digital signage Displays are most...
, and other publishers who pay a fee for the service.
The company's daily news coverage includes international headline news, business, entertainment, celebrity gossip, sports, technology, health and politics. The company also provides a variety of non-editorial content services such as weather, horoscopes, trivia and business data.
AHN's primary focus is breaking headline news and a small investigative news effort.
Organization
AHN covers international and national news using a network of journalists, writers, contributors and freelance "stringers" from the US, EuropeEurope
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
, and Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
.
AHN editors are located in various cities in the United States and abroad and manage electronic news gathering operations using a proprietary news content management system called NewsBahn.
AHN produces over 100,000 news articles a year.
History
- 2000: AHN is founded as an internet news search engine.
- 2003: Company begins offering news and content for syndication to websites.
- 2004: AHN acquires WeatherClicks. Integrates weather into syndication services.
- 2005: AHN starts producing and distributing original news with the purpose of syndicating news.
- 2007: Launches sports, celebrity and entertainment news divisions.
Associated Press controversy
In January 2008, AHN was sued by competitor Associated PressAssociated Press
The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...
, claiming that AHN allegedly infringed on its copyrights and its hot news, a contentious 'quasi-property' right to facts. The AP complaint asserted that AHN reporters had copied facts from AP news reports without paying a syndication fee. After AHN moved to dismiss all but the copyright claims set forth by AP, a portion of the lawsuit was dismissed. According to court documents, the case has been dismissed and settled.