Yahoo Has a Crowd, Wants a Voice
Posted in: Miscellaneous at 04/10/2011 19:16
One company dominates online news, sports and finance. It has more visitors to its news site than the runner-up in the category, CNN, more in sports than ESPN and more in finance than Dow Jones, owner of The Wall Street Journal.
That online media colossus is Yahoo, and it is in distress.
Despite a huge audience of 686 million users and resources like high-tech film studios and talent-filled newsrooms, Yahoo's future is in doubt. Potential buyers are circling to pick up parts after the messy firing last month of Carol A. Bartz, Yahoo's chief executive.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/technology/yahoo-aims-to-produce-more-original-reporting.html
