Yahoo and ABC News have announced a partnership which will see ABC News content and coverage land on Yahoo News and other Yahoo properties. The partnership goes beyond content, the Yahoo news and the ABC News teams will share offices in several cities and will work on several common projects.
The partnership will also include some web-only content produced by ABC News shows and anchors.
The first of this kind is an interview with US president Barack Obama, taken by Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos. Other interviews will follow.
There will also be some online-only content before and after the live TV shows.
"Yahoo!, the premier digital media company, and ABC News today announced they will join forces to launch a strategic online news alliance that will deliver content to more than 100 million U.S. users each month," the two companies announced in a joint statement.
"Under the agreement, ABC News becomes the premier news provider on Yahoo! News, with editorial teams from both organizations collaborating on original coverage to appear on both the Yahoo! News and ABC News sites," they explained.
The interesting part is that the two companies have banded together in an effort to maintain their audiences, which are increasingly moving towards more niche news sources online.
Yahoo News is visited by 25 million people each day, the Yahoo homepage, which will also feature some content, by even more.
So far, Yahoo News has relied mostly on aggregated content, but it does have an editorial team of its own.
That team is now joined by ABC News to cover major events and will share offices in New York, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. The content they create will end up on Yahoo sites but also on ABCNews.com.
There is also a new GoodMorningAmerica.com site, powered by Yahoo technology. The site will feature content created by the ABC News team, some of it web-only.
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