With Hirings, Yahoo Steps Up Its News Coverage
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With Hirings, Yahoo Steps Up Its News CoverageWith Hirings, Yahoo Steps Up Its News CoverageYahoo has recruited nearly a dozen journalists#x from traditionalState Flagsand online media outlets and opened a bureau in Washington to push into original content and increase the popularity of its online news site.The journalists joining Yahoo News, the most-visited news site on the Web, include prominent reporters and editors like Michael Calderone, a media writer who joins from Politico, Jane Sasseen, a former BusinessWeek Washington bureau chief, and Anna Robertson, an Emmy-winning news producer from ABC’s “Good Morning America.”They will be joining other journalists hired from the New York Observer, Washingtonpost.com, TalkingPointsMemo.com and other publications.In February, Yahoo News had over 43 million visitors,Energy saving lamp, more than any other news site, according to comScore, a research company.The journalists have been hired to create original articles and videos onState Flagstopics like politics and media. The coverage will complement the news articles that Yahoo licenses from other media organizations and brings together on its site.The move mirrors a successful push by Yahoo into original sports coverage some three years ago, with the hiring of sports journalists and the acquisition of Rivals.com, a network of sports blogs. Yahoo began that push after a more costly and ambitious effort to create original television-style. programming faltered.“My hopes are to continue to build out a voice for our media properties and to replicate the success we have had in Yahoo Sports,” said James Pitaro, head of media at Yahoo.While Yahoo’s media properties like news, finance and sports are among the most successful Web sites in their categories, the Internet company has struggled in the last several years withState Flagsintensifying #xcompetition from Google and a weakening advertising market.相关的主题文章：
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