Yahoo and McClatchy get cozy on foreign news
Yahoo is teaming up with the McClatchy newspaper chain to offer international news coverage from the chain’s journalists, according to this press release, in a project to be called “Trusted Voices.”
Foreign correspondents based in select regions, including Iraq, the Middle East, China and Latin America, will provide everything from traditional news stories to exclusive blog reports, the release says. The project is expected to launch in the next couple of months, and one of the first initiatives will be the “Inside Iraq” blog written by native Iraqi staffers in McClatchy’s Baghdad bureau.
Media blogger Howard Owens has some thoughts on the arrangement here. In other news, McClatchy lost $280-million in the fourth quarter after taking a writedown on the sale of its largest paper, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
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