Yahoo News
news website from Yahoo!
Yahoo News (stylized as Yahoo! News) is an American 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. Yahoo News allows users to comment on articles. Between late 2006 and early 2010, comments were disabled in part due to moderation challenges.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3044717. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1996, 2011, 2012 and 2021.
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This entry incorporates text from “Yahoo News” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.