Yahoo: Newsroom for Communities
By Yahoo
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Description
Introducing the revolutionary news app that's powered by the people, for the people. Get your own newsroom and get the best stories from around the world. Simply explore a list of topics, which we call Vibes, to find the topics and news that matter to you. From there, join the discussion by sharing your reactions and evolve the conversation by posting stories from around the web. Many people out there are passionate about the same topics as you are. Join them, expand your perspectives, build your stories and feel the vibe.
Features:
Choose from hundreds of topics, called Vibes, to get a personalized news feed (your newsroom) full of the news you're interested in across US and world news, and get new trends in finance, health, business, sports, entertainment, lifestyle and much more. Your newsroom includes content from a wide variety of news sources - Yahoo, Buzzfeed, Wall Street Journal, NPR, Bloomberg, Huffington Post, among others.
Evolve the conversation by posting articles from around the web directly into the relevant Vibe to spark a discussion.
Get personalized alerts to help you stay on top of the news and conversations that are relevant to you so you don't miss out.
Tips:
Tap "Explore" to find the Vibes that align with your passions and interests. The more Vibes you follow, the more tailored the app will become to your interests.
Browse your newsroom to read all the news that's important to you and debate and discuss with a passionate community.
Don't forget to sign in using your Yahoo account to get the stories tailored to your interests.
News, Politics, Sports, Health and much more
Follow the latest US and World news, including all the fun stuff in politics.
Go beyond the episodes on your favorite television shows, know what to see with the latest movie coverage and get the inside scoop on celebrity gossip.
Get the latest scores and news across the NFL, College Football, MLB, NHK, NBA, MLS, and more, from our award winning journalists.
Have feedback to make our app even better? Visit our forum at http://yhoo.it/2dbVXOk
What's New in Version 7.3.0
- A brand-spanking new shiny Explore tab! To make it easier to find the conversations that matter to you, we’ve reimagined the “explore” feature to group topics together into categories. For example, within the Finance category, you’ll find specialized Vibes for personal finance and the stock market, along with a few more that we think you’ll be interested in. We’ve also added a curated list of “Vibes we love” from our editorial team, and we hope you'll love them too.
- You'll find, as we have, that every conversation has a sentiment that can often be challenging to extract at a glance. With that in mind, we’ve also added a sentiment bar - a feature that allows you to immediately see the tone of a conversation. Each post will include green, yellow, and red emoticons to alert you which way a conversation is leaning - positive, neutral, or negative.
- Landscape mode! On iPads! We know you've been clamoring for it, and we've brought it back to the app. We're on your side! (That was a rotation pun, but really, we promise to keep listening and keep helping.)
- Now you can use our share sheet extension to start a post into the Yahoo Newsroom. Just start the share process from any other app (even your web browser) and then add the Yahoo icon to your share sheet. That'll make it easy to express yourself in the Vibes you love.
- Turns out that gremlin from last time was one really bad dude. We took him in and treated him like one of our own, and in the end he just broke our hearts. We're not gonna go into it in detail on the whole thing - it's still too raw - but suffice it to say that we feel really bad about blaming Jeff. Sorry Jeff!
Customer Reviews
Terrible App
You can no longer read the comments on the stories themselves. Instead you had to do it through Yahoo!'s stupid app. And when you click to open it in the app, it doesn't even take you to the article you were reading. It takes you back to the top of the page and you have to search through all the articles to find the story you were reading. Most times I can't even find the story and give up. Get rid of the app and let us read the stories and comments through our browsers.
Alerts used to be important
Used to consider Yahoo a non biased (sorta) source of news, but that the truth was recently brought to light by their obvious viewpoint.
Come on guys (crap, that's not socially acceptable because it's gender specific), just because your writer's side didn't 'win', doesn't mean it's OK to flood the alerts with social media "It's not fair" unimportance.
My only news source used to be the alerts I received from yahoo. Ones that informed me of ACTUAL IMPORTANT newsworthy events. Now, I realize that I can't even trust Yahoo to report actual news.
Not smart letting your social media writers have free reign. That is, unless you seriously wanted to take a side. If that's the case, don't call yourselves a news outlet, be honest to yourselves and call it "Unimportant News - what's trending on social media".
Grow up - don't become the one sided
Much Improved
Yahoo!'s news section has has become much better over past month. They have many news stories that no other site does. Also they are often first up with a news story.
- Free
- Category: News
- Updated: Nov 17, 2016
- Version: 7.3.0
- Size: 171 MB
- Languages: English, Arabic, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Vietnamese
- Seller: Yahoo! Inc.
- © 2016 Yahoo Inc.
Compatibility: Requires iOS 9.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.