Yahoo Gets Serious About News

Posted by Mike (11/16/09)

Yahoo has decided to place it’s news service in the hands of a human editor, Anthony Moor. Moor currently works as the deputy managing editor for interactive news at the Dallas Morning News. He has been responsible for increasing the web traffic of DallasNews.com by 186% and was given the Edward R. Murrow Award for best non-broadcast affiliated website in 2008.

It’s clear Yahoo is making some big changes. Their homepage re-design has been a success, they’ve pretty much given their search results to Bing (read about it here), and now they’ve decided to get serious about their news presentation.

I think this is a great decision by Yahoo. The one gripe I’ve had with their news service in the past is the fluctuations in the quality of articles. Some are very well written, while others are riddled with typographical errors and poor insight. Placing the news in the hands of a capable editor seems like just the way to fix this problem.

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