{{Short description|News aggregator from Yahoo!}} {{Use American English|date=April 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox website | name = Yahoo News | logo = Yahoo news logo.svg | logo_upright = 1.1 | screenshot = | caption = | url = {{URL|https://news.yahoo.com/}} | commercial = Yes | type = News | registration = Optional | owner = Yahoo! Inc. | Presenter = | author = Yahoo! | editor = | launch_date = {{start date and age|1996|8}}<ref name="Yahoo! Inc. - Company Timeline">{{cite web|url=http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/timeline.cfm |title=Yahoo! Inc. - Company Timeline |work=Wayback Machine |date=July 13, 2008 |access-date=July 19, 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080713214826/http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/timeline.cfm |archive-date=July 13, 2008 }}</ref> | current_status = Active | revenue = }}
'''Yahoo News''' (stylized as '''Yahoo! News''') is a news website and news aggregator operated by Yahoo. Created in August 1996 by Yahoo software engineer Brad Clawsie, the site compiles articles from a variety of media organizations, including the Associated Press, Reuters, CNN, ABC News, and BBC News.
Originally focused on aggregating news from external publishers, Yahoo News began producing original journalism in 2011 and joined the White House press corps in 2012.
==History== The site was created by Yahoo software engineer Brad Clawsie in August 1996. As of 2021, the site published content from more than 100 news partners.
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.<ref name=pamela>{{cite news|last=LiCalzi O'Connell|first=Pamela|title=New Economy; Yahoo Charts the Spread of the News by E-Mail, and What It Finds Out Is Itself Becoming News.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/29/business/new-economy-yahoo-charts-spread-e-mail-what-it-finds-itself-becoming.html|newspaper=New York Times|date=January 29, 2001}}</ref> Yahoo News allows users to comment on articles. Between late 2006 and early 2010, comments were disabled in part due to moderation challenges.<ref>{{cite news|last=Tartakoff|first=Joseph|date=March 3, 2010|url=http://paidcontent.org/article/419-yahoo-news-brings-news-commenting-back-/ |work=PaidContent |title=Yahoo News Brings News Commenting Back|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013045757/http://paidcontent.org/2010/03/03/419-yahoo-news-brings-news-commenting-back/|archive-date=October 13, 2012}}</ref>
By 2011, Yahoo had expanded its focus to include original content, as part of its plans to become a major media organization.<ref name="politico1">{{cite news |title=Yahoo News hires Olivier Knox as its first White House correspondent |url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/blogs/cutline/yahoo-news-hires-olivier-knox-first-white-house-114041483.html |publisher=Yahoo! News |date=February 1, 2012 |first=Dylan |last=Stableford |access-date=February 3, 2012}}</ref> The site hired veteran journalists and joined the White House press corps for the first time in February 2012.<ref name="politico1"/><ref>{{cite news |title=Yahoo steals NY Times' Virginia Heffernan |url=https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/02/yahoo-steals-ny-times-virginia-heffernan-113321 |work=Politico |date=February 2, 2012 |first=Dylan |last=Byers |access-date=February 3, 2012}}</ref> In May 2013, the site began integrating tweets into its streaming news feeds.<ref>{{cite web|last=Rapaport |first=Lisa |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-16/yahoo-ceo-mayer-says-streaming-news-will-display-tweets.html |title=Yahoo CEO Mayer Says Streaming News Will Display Tweets |publisher=Bloomberg |date=May 16, 2013 |access-date=July 3, 2013}}</ref> In November 2013, Yahoo hired former ''Today'' Show and ''CBS Evening News'' anchor Katie Couric as Global Anchor of Yahoo News.<ref>{{cite web|last=Gold|first=Hadas|author-link=Hadas Gold|title=Yahoo News makes Couric move official|date=November 25, 2013 |url=https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/11/yahoo-news-makes-couric-move-official-178309?hp=l2|publisher=Politico|access-date=November 25, 2013}}</ref> She left in 2017.<ref>[https://www.recode.net/2017/7/28/16059528/katie-couric-ends-yahoo-interview-show-depart-oath-marissa-mayer Katie Couric is ending her Yahoo interview show and departing Oath] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811104016/https://www.recode.net/2017/7/28/16059528/katie-couric-ends-yahoo-interview-show-depart-oath-marissa-mayer |date=August 11, 2017 }}; ''Recode''; Kara Swisher; July 28, 2017.</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/218814/Threes_Monument_Valley_and_more_pick_up_Apple_Design_Awards.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606045905/http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/218814/Threes_Monument_Valley_and_more_pick_up_Apple_Design_Awards.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 6, 2014 |title=Threes, Monument Valley and more pick up Apple Design Awards|last=Rose|first=Mike|date=June 3, 2014 |publisher=Gamasutra |access-date=June 3, 2014}}</ref>
In May 2021, Verizon announced it would sell Verizon Media, including Yahoo and AOL, to Apollo Global Management for about $5 billion, while retaining a 10% stake in the company, which would be renamed Yahoo after the deal.<ref>Lee, Edmund; Hirsch, Lauren (May 2, 2021). "[https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/02/business/verizon-yahoo-aol-sale.html Verizon Near Deal to Sell Yahoo and AOL]". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331</ref> The transaction closed on September 1, 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lunden |first=Brian Heater, Ingrid |date=2021-09-01 |title=Apollo completes its $5B acquisition of Verizon Media, now known as Yahoo |url=https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/01/apollo-completes-its-5b-acquisition-of-verizon-media-now-known-as-yahoo/ |access-date=2026-03-06 |website=TechCrunch |language=en-US}}</ref>
In September 2022, Yahoo News (which aggregates articles from many other sources) acquired The Factual, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to rate the credibility of individual articles.<ref>[https://www.axios.com/2022/09/06/yahoo-factual-credibility-ratings Exclusive: Yahoo buys The Factual to add news credibility ratings]</ref> In March 2024, Yahoo News launched a creator program allowing writers to publish stories and earn revenue from them.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bursztynsky |first=Jessica |date=2024-03-14 |title=Yahoo News is launching a creators program to publish lifestyle content (exclusive) |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/91058931/yahoo-news-is-launching-a-creators-program-to-publish-lifestyle-content-exclusive |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260203162403/https://www.fastcompany.com/91058931/yahoo-news-is-launching-a-creators-program-to-publish-lifestyle-content-exclusive |archive-date=February 3, 2026 |access-date=2026-03-06 |work=Fast Company |language=en-US |url-status=live }}</ref> In April 2024, Yahoo acquired the defunct news app Artifact, integrating its technology into a new Yahoo News mobile app.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Ashworth |first=Boone |title=Artifact's DNA Lives on in Yahoo's Revamped AI-Powered News App |url=https://www.wired.com/story/yahoo-news-app-relaunch-artifact/ |access-date=July 19, 2024 |magazine=Wired |language=en-US |issn=1059-1028}}</ref>
=== Yahoo Celebrity === Yahoo Celebrity debuted as Yahoo OMG in June 2007, with content syndicated from ''Access Hollywood'', Reuters, and the Associated Press.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Woodson |first1=Alex |title=Net Effect: Like, OMG! Surfers dig Yahoo dirt |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/net-effect-like-omg-surfers-150768/ |access-date=April 30, 2025 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |agency=The Associated Press |date=September 22, 2007}}</ref> In July 2009, OMG was the most popular celebrity news site, with more than 20 million monthly visitors.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Nakashima |first1=Ryan |title=Omg! Positive tone boosts Yahoo celeb site to top |url=https://phys.org/news/2009-07-omg-positive-tone-boosts-yahoo.html |access-date=April 30, 2025 |work=Phys.org |agency=Associated Press |date=July 4, 2009 |language=en}}</ref> The site launched in Europe in 2011.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Shearman |first1=Sarah |title=Yahoo to roll out celebrity news site omg! in Europe |url=https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/yahoo-roll-celebrity-news-site-omg-europe/1076357 |access-date=April 30, 2025 |work=Campaign |date=June 22, 2011 |language=en}}</ref>
In January 2014, omg! became Yahoo Celebrity.<ref>{{Citation |title=13. On the Verge of Celebrity: January–October 1895 |date=2014-12-31 |work=Stephen Crane |pages=150–166 |url=https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674419704.c16 |access-date=2026-03-06 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-41970-4}}</ref>
==See also== * Apple News * Google News
==References== {{reflist|30em}}
==External links== * {{official website}} * {{cite web | url = http://www.niemanlab.org/encyclo/yahoo | title = Yahoo | publisher = Nieman Foundation for Journalism | display-authors = 0 | first = Mark |last = Coddington | work = Encyclo | access-date = April 1, 2012 }}
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