The resignation was nowhere to be found on the user-lists. įor example, on June 27, Yahoo News’s main page at 9 am led with news of Tony Blair’s resignation. On each day studied, at most two or three stories out of the 30 across these three lists corresponded to top stories on the main news page. The specific story selections varied even more. The user-ranked stories tended to be more about health and medicine (8% versus 0% of the Yahoo News stories), lifestyle (7% versus 0% on Yahoo News) and crime (7% versus 0%).

A third (32%) of all stories on Yahoo News main page and 28% of those on its user-organized pages was coverage of events from overseas, such as the Israeli-Palestinian and Lebanese conflicts.īeyond that, however, the topics differed. interests that week than the overall media studied in the News Index. Looking at the broad topic areas, both Yahoo News and its user-organized pages (emailed, viewed and recommended) were more focused on international events not involving U.S. We closely examined the top stories on each of these pages from June 24 to 29to get a sense of how different (or similar) the user stories were from the editor-selected stories and also to see if there were differences in the stories that were recommended versus those that were highest read or the most emailed. In addition, the site offers three user-driven lists of stories: the most viewed, the most-recommended, and the most emailed. according to both comScore and Nielsen//Net Ratings, is controlled by editors who select stories from 7,000 different news outlets, according to Yahoo News’s Web site. Yahoo’s main news page, ( ), the most popular news Web site in the U.S. In addition to examining the content on three of the most popular user-based news Web sites, PEJ also closely examined one outlet that offers both an editor-based news page as well as lists of user-ranked news: Yahoo News.

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