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Yahoo mixes old and new in Internet-age news service
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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — Yahoo is building an Internet-age news service, leveraging its global audience of a half-billion people to win exclusive interviews with world leaders.
Unlike websites that just aggregate news stories plucked from the Internet, Yahoo is cutting content deals with wire services and other "traditional" outlets as well as investing in a bullpen of its own reporters.
"Yahoo News is a news organization," director of editorial programming Jessica Barron told AFP in an interview this week.
"We have been doing a lot of original reporting and we are going to be doing a lot more."
Reporting coups claimed by Yahoo News include a recent interview with South Korean president Lee Myung-bak in which he maintains that his country could re-unify...
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