ABC News And Yahoo News Announce ‘Strategic Online News Alliance’

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by Colby Hall | 8:43 am, October 3rd, 2011

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ABC News and Yahoo! just announced plans to launch a “strategic online news alliance” that will “blend ABC News’ global newsgathering operation and unrivaled lineup of trusted anchors and reporters with Yahoo! News’ unmatched audience, depth and breadth of content.” The announcement was just made on-air of Good Morning America, a video of which will be added shortly.

Good Morning America reports:

This new venture blends ABC News’ global newsgathering operation and unrivaled lineup of trusted anchors and reporters with Yahoo! News’ unmatched audience, depth and breadth of content. Beginning today, GoodMorningAmerica.com, launches on Yahoo! along with three new online-first video series hosted by the award-winning, trusted anchors of ABC News.

As announced on Good Morning America, George Stephanopoulos’ interview with President Obama, drawing on questions posed by readers of Yahoo! and ABCNews.com, will be webcast live on Yahoo.com and ABCNews.com today at 2:35pm ET.

“Yahoo! is committed to building the richest set of premium and personalized content experiences for our users. Our deep collaboration with ABC News further strengthens Yahoo! as the No. 1 online news source, greatly enhancing our already robust news content,” said Ross Levinsohn, executive vice president of Americas at Yahoo!. “ABC News and Ben Sherwood’s vision is completely symbiotic with ours; together we can create highly engaging experiences for more than 100 million users a month that will set the standard for the industry.”

The forward thinking partnership includes an original web-based series called Newsmakers features ABC News anchors like Diane Sawyer, George Stephanopoulos, Barbara Walters, Katie Couric, and Robin Roberts among others, and will debut with Stephanopoulos’ sitdown with Barack Obama later today.

Watch the promotional video now, courtesy of ABC News:

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Anonymous

Yahoo news doesn’t need ABC, its the other way round. This means ABC might be getting rid of jobs, this area is not their strongest.
The Real Royal Emperor

Every success, guys! This is not a foolproof endeavor. Rupert’s “Daily,” a similar endeavor, has been a miserable, miserable failure drawing only 1/6th of the subscriptions to break even. It is, however, a rather ill-conceived organ. An e-newspaper that doesn’t update during the day. That is different than a print newspaper how? Learn from the mistakes of your predecessor.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/oct/03/rupert-murdoch-daily-subscribers
yungchii

The Yahoo news comment section has the most disgusting and divisive trolls on the internet. I wonder if ABC news looked into that before making this alliance…geez
http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

I was going to say why does ABC News need Yahoo?? If you need to catch up on news, just go to ABC’s website!! Yahoo seems to becoming irrelevant!!
Anonymous

Wrong! How many users do you think Yahoo has? comapared to ABC online? With the massive email users and Yahoo being set as home page for millions of people makes it a high priority compared to ABC online. Ask anyone who isn’t a news junkie about the last time they were on ABC?
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KAYQ4HH2Z33MEJPJ3USFNLOMZE Sunmusing

Another corporate take over of a media source. One way or another, the message of liberty, and freedom will be squashed by the bankers.
http://twitter.com/clindhartsen Chris Lindhartsen

So, what we’re essentially seeing is what NBC News and MSN planned to do years ago? Or what CNBC and MSN did until CNBC went their own way ~2005 or so? Or what exists overseas with Yahoo!7 or NineMSN in Australia? And how is this going to be a raving success exactly?
ByeByeYahoo

If ABC and Yahoo become “allies”, I won’t be reading EITHER. MSM and its progressive agenda is committing suicide and they’ll be taking Yahoo down with them. IBu-bye Yahoo!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VZJCGYCTTWEIHWS4TXT7DXTNIM what?

has yahoo stopped the comments section on their news stories? this is the only place ive seen a comment section.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Joe-Hope/100002391171015 Joe Hope

The hatred and bigotry has become a common thread on yahoo news, especially from tea party members. Freedom of speech is protected but being a news organization, irresponsible speech peppered with lies and bigotry shouldn’t be tolerated. It also became an avenue for paid posters that were being promoted by corporate lobbyists to spread their propaganda.