Yahoo News: Online news leader

From The Wall Street Journal: Yahoo News, which relies on both “human oversight [and] automation,” now ranks as the leader of online news. The news aggregator (see related OJR story) attracts most of its visitors from other Yahoo sites while redirecting very few of them to rival news sites. Its pacts with multiple news sources, including French news service Agence France Presse, give Yahoo News access to their news items as well as an edge over its competitors. In contrast, AFP sued Google News in March for offering its content without its consent. Yahoo News has been redesigned as a one-stop source to many sources, which will allow “consumers to flip quickly among headlines from different news organizations without waiting for Web pages to reload, and to place text feeds from Web blogs and other sites alongside news headlines.”