Yahoo! News
Type of site | News |
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Owner | Yahoo! |
Created by | Yahoo! |
URL | news.yahoo.com |
Commercial | preroll adds 15-30sec |
Registration | Optional |
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 services, 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*.
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.[1]
Ranking
In April 2009, Yahoo! News ranked second among global news sites in U.S. users, after msnbc.com and ahead of CNN, according to Nielsen/NetRatings.[2]
References
- ^ Yahoo News Brings News Commenting Back.
- ^ Top 30 global news sites for April 2009 Editor & Publisher Published 20 May 2009.
External links
- Yahoo! News
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- "Columbia Journalism Review News Frontier Database"