Yahoo! News
Encyclopedia
Yahoo! News is an Internet
-based news aggregator provided by Yahoo!
. It features Top Stories, U.S. National, World, Business, Entertainment, Science, Health, Weather, Most Popular, News Photos, Op/Ed, and Local news.
Articles in Yahoo! News come from news service
s, namely Associated Press
(AP), Reuters
, Agence France-Presse
(AFP), Fox News, Christian Science Monitor, NPR
, USA Today
, CNN.com, CBC News
, Seven News
, BBC News
, and others*.
In 2001, Yahoo! News launched the very first most emailed page on the web. The idea was created and implemented by it's software engineer Tony Tam
Yahoo! allowed comments for each news article up until December 19, 2006, when commentary was disabled. Comments were enabled once again on March 2, 2010.
In June 2011, Yahoo! News was rebuilt using an internal content management system named: Yahoo! Publishing Platform . The same platform now powers Yahoo! News in the following regions and languages: Argentina, Brazil , Canada [French and English], Chile, Colombia , Mexico, Peru , US [Spanish and English ], Venezuela , Hong Kong , India [English , Marathi , Tamil , Indonesia , Malaysia , Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan , France , Germany , Italy , Spain , United Kingdom
In September 2011, Yahoo! News launched the Yahoo! News Activity functionality during the 2011 F8 conference with Facebook.
and ahead of CNN
, according to Nielsen/NetRatings
.
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
-based news aggregator provided by Yahoo!
Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...
. It features Top Stories, U.S. National, World, Business, Entertainment, Science, Health, Weather, Most Popular, News Photos, Op/Ed, and Local news.
Articles in Yahoo! News come from news service
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...
s, namely Associated Press
Associated 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...
(AP), Reuters
Reuters
Reuters is a news agency headquartered in New York City. Until 2008 the Reuters news agency formed part of a British independent company, Reuters Group plc, which was also a provider of financial market data...
, Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse is a French news agency, the oldest one in the world, and one of the three largest with Associated Press and Reuters. It is also the largest French news agency. Currently, its CEO is Emmanuel Hoog and its news director Philippe Massonnet...
(AFP), Fox News, Christian Science Monitor, NPR
NPR
NPR, formerly National Public Radio, is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. NPR was created in 1970, following congressional passage of the Public Broadcasting...
, USA Today
USA Today
USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003...
, CNN.com, CBC News
CBC News
CBC News is the department within the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on CBC television, radio and online services...
, Seven News
Seven News
Seven News is the television news service of the Seven Network in Australia.National bulletins are presented from Seven's high-definition studios in Martin Place, Sydney, while flagship 6pm bulletins are produced in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth. The network also produces Seven...
, BBC News
BBC News
BBC News is the department of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online...
, and others*.
In 2001, Yahoo! News launched the very first most emailed page on the web. The idea was created and implemented by it's software engineer Tony Tam
Yahoo! allowed comments for each news article up until December 19, 2006, when commentary was disabled. Comments were enabled once again on March 2, 2010.
In June 2011, Yahoo! News was rebuilt using an internal content management system named: Yahoo! Publishing Platform . The same platform now powers Yahoo! News in the following regions and languages: Argentina, Brazil , Canada [French and English], Chile, Colombia , Mexico, Peru , US [Spanish and English ], Venezuela , Hong Kong , India [English , Marathi , Tamil , Indonesia , Malaysia , Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan , France , Germany , Italy , Spain , United Kingdom
In September 2011, Yahoo! News launched the Yahoo! News Activity functionality during the 2011 F8 conference with Facebook.
Ranking
In April 2009, Yahoo! News ranked second among global news sites in U.S. users, after msnbc.comMsnbc.com
msnbc.com is a news website owned and operated as a joint venture by NBCUniversal and Microsoft.In addition to original content from its news staff, msnbc.com is the news website for the NBC News family, with content from the cable television news channel MSNBC, NBC shows such as Today, NBC Nightly...
and ahead of CNN
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
, according to Nielsen/NetRatings
Nielsen Ratings
Nielsen ratings are the audience measurement systems developed by Nielsen Media Research, in an effort to determine the audience size and composition of television programming in the United States...
.