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Yahoo News Video Serial ‘Cities Rising: Rebuilding America’ Returns Summer 2017
By Tony Maciulis, Caput of News, Yahoo Studios
We’re excited to announce that Cities Rising: Rebuilding America, a Yahoo News docuseries, is returning this summer with all new episodes. Join Yahoo for an up-close and personal await at three iconic U.S. cities, equally told over two episodes each.
In the first episode, launching today, Katie Couric visits Cleveland, a city residents like to phone call “the best location in the nation.” During her tour she visits the Cleveland Dispensary, where she checks out a new breakthrough technology, the HoloLens, that is transforming the study of the human anatomy. Couric also visits the Cleveland Browns stadium with WKYC’s sports managing director, Jim Donovan, who discusses the Cavaliers’ historic 2016 NBA championship. She samples local treats at Due west Side Market place, the oldest operating indoor-outdoor marketplace space in the city, and catches upwards with Matthew McConaughey, who filmed his new movie in Cleveland and has plans to launch his Simply Keep Livin Foundation curriculum at that place at John Adams High School.
New episodes of Cities Rise: Rebuilding America will publish twice a month on Yahoo. The visit to Cleveland is followed past stops in New York City’s largest and nigh diverse area, the borough of Queens, and finally the “Valley of the Dominicus,” Phoenix. The first episode of each installment explores how the city is making pivotal changes to reinvent itself, while taking a expect at issues that are core to rebuilding: education, the economic system and infrastructure. The 2nd episode will focus on fun — the arts and civilisation, sports, food and nightlife scenes that make life exciting in the city.
Total episodes and boosted clips are available at yahoo.com/cities-rising.
Full of Pride
By Chris Kolk, Chair of Yahoo Pride
June is recognized globally every bit a time of reflection and celebration for the LGBTQ community. Every year, Pride celebrations are held around the earth to commemorate the Stonewall Riots in New York, the anniversary of the Supreme Courtroom case of Obergefell v. Hodges, and individuals such as Harvey Milk and Audrey Lorde who helped pave the mode for LGBTQ rights. This month, nosotros encourage y'all to accept a moment to remember those who took a represent equality and join those who are still fighting for LGBTQ rights. The fight for equality is not something of the by, simply the responsibility of those living in the nowadays.
Here at Yahoo, we’re recognizing these individuals and milestones by celebrating all month long with our Yahoo Pride Employee Resources Group (ERG) and by leveraging the ability of our products and network to drive inclusivity. Here’s just some what we have planned:
Yahoo Mail:
Share your Pride with family and friends all calendar month long by using our Pride-themed stationery
Yahoo Homepage:
During Pride weekend, June 23 – 25, our Yahoo Homepage volition commemorate this important time, highlighting our continued commitment to diverseness
Yahoo Billboard:
If you’re driving north into San Francisco, CA on Interstate 80, have a look at our iconic billboard, which volition be painted rainbow in commemoration with messages of encouragement
Yahoo is committed to making our visitor a all-time place to work for the LGBTQ community and has been recognized for the past 10 years by the Human Rights Campaign’southward Corporate Equality Alphabetize, scoring a perfect 100 each time. With the help of our ERG, nosotros strive to maintain a strong culture of diversity and equality by building a safe workplace. Nosotros continually educate our employees on LGBTQ rights to ensure our employees tin can e'er feel proud of who they are. Happy Pride Month to all of our users and our employees!
Yahoo Finance Delivers Well-nigh 7 Million Total Alive Views for Second Almanac Berkshire Hathaway Live Stream
By Andy Serwer, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo Finance
On Saturday, May 6, Yahoo Finance live-streamed the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting to an audience of millions around the globe.
The second almanac live stream reached a global audience of one.43 meg unique viewers on Yahoo, across all devices, up 30% from 2016. Appointment too increased significantly this year, with more than three.one million total live views on Yahoo, upward over 72% from 2016. Audiences spent a total of 24.7 million minutes on Yahoo, up 38% from 2016, watching Berkshire Hathaway Chairman & CEO Warren Buffett, and Vice Chairman Charlie Munger, share their insights and advice, live from the CenturyLink Center in Omaha.
Additionally, through our live streaming partners in China, nosotros saw another 3.89 million full live views for a combined 6.99 one thousand thousand total alive views worldwide.
In addition to VOD replay on the site, Yahoo Finance has too made an audio replay of the meeting and accompanying interviews available via podcast for the outset time always, through a partnership with Acast. Observe it on iTunes and other podcast stores now.
Be sure to cheque out all of our coverage on Yahoo Finance.
Introducing Yahoo’s Neurodiversity Employee Resource Group
By Margenett Moore-Roberts, Global Head of Inclusive Diversity
I am excited to announce the cosmos of Yahoo’s newest Employee Resource Group (ERG) focused on Neurodiversity, spearheaded by Margaux Joffe, Yahoo’due south Head of Product, Global Marketing Department. The ERG’s mission is to champion neurodiversity at Yahoo in order to create an inclusive workplace for minds of all kinds.
If you’re unfamiliar, neurodiversity refers to differences in learning and attention as normal variations of the man brain. At Yahoo, we recognize minds of all kinds and respect all forms of human variations – from dyslexia, to ADHD, to the autistic spectrum and more. In partnership with Yahoo’south Part of Inclusive Diversity (OID), the new Neurodiversity ERG will help encourage that anyone with these differences can employ their strengths at work and thrive through one another’s support, as well as supports OID’south mission of advancing diversity and inclusion in Yahoo’s workforce, workplace and marketplace.
Margaux is the chair of the program and her passion stems from her personal feel in being diagnosed with ADHD three years ago, when she was well into adulthood. She felt compelled to constitute the Kaleidoscope Guild, an empowerment project for women with ADHD which shines a light on inspiring stories of trailblazing women with ADHD for its more than 700 members. After joining Yahoo and talking to the OID about their commitment to creating an inclusive working environment, she proposed the idea of creating a Neurodiversity ERG in order to extend the OID’s efforts to colleagues (like herself) with neurological differences.
The ERG is hitting the ground running, and the first internal campaign is introducing poster serial and screens in all offices globally to highlight the strengths associated with a few neurological differences such as Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia and OCD. The ERG will also meet regularly to provide back up to relevant members of the Yahoo community and collaborate on how to grow and bring sensation to their mission. Iv initial focuses of the plan include: learning the needs of employees, creating a customs of back up, providing resources at Yahoo and increasing the cultural competency of managers so they can finer manage their diverse teams.
In the coming months, the ERG will work with the OID and Human Resources to ensure Neurodiversity is incorporated into our Inclusion strategy and our director competencies.
Yahoo Finance Hosts Live Stream of Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting
By Andy Serwer, Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief
Tune in as Yahoo hosts our second live stream of Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholders meeting on Saturday, May 6. Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Master Andy Serwer
volition be on-the-ground at CenturyLink Center Omaha, aslope Yahoo News & Finance Anchor Bianna Golodryga
and Yahoo Finance Anchor Jennifer Rogers, with insight, assay and news-making interviews. For the second twelvemonth in a row, audiences will be able to spotter live on Yahoo Finance – beyond desktop, tablet and mobile – as Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett and his right-hand homo Charlie Munger share their unscripted views on the company, the markets, the administration and whatever other topic that may come up upwards. The shareholders meeting live stream on Yahoo Finance volition once once again exist bachelor in both English and Mandarin, with VOD replay available for thirty days following the meeting.
The schedule of live coverage includes:
ten:00am ET
– Yahoo Finance pre-show
10:15am ET
– Live stream of morning session, featuring the Q&A with Buffett and Munger
1:00pm ET
– Yahoo Finance Halftime Written report
ii:00pm ET
– Live stream of afternoon session, featuring boosted Q&A and business meeting
iv:30pm ET
– Yahoo Finance mail service-bear witness wrap-up
Throughout the Pre-show and Halftime Written report nosotros’ll also feature a number of live and pre-taped interviews with the Yahoo Finance editorial team, including: Warren Buffett,
Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway; Todd Combs, Investment Managing director for Berkshire Hathaway, and Ted Weschler, Portfolio Manager for Berkshire Hathaway; Coca Cola Chairman Muhtar Kent
and newly appointed CEO, James Quincey; actress and Buffett friend, Glenn Close; Dairy Queen CEO John Gainor; one-time Vanguard CEO Jack Bogle; Brooks Running CEO Jim Weber; Chair, CEO and Chief Designer of Kathy Ireland Worldwide, Kathy Ireland, and many others.
This year, Yahoo Finance will too brand an audio replay of the meeting and accompanying interviews available via podcast, through a partnership with Acast. With more than l 1000000 monthly listens to more than than 1,000 shows globally, Acast is the world’s leading engineering infrastructure for audio on demand and podcasts.
The Yahoo Finance’s Berkshire Hathaway podcast will be available on iTunes and other podcast stores, starting Mon, May viii. For more than information on the Berkshire Hathaway Live Stream, visit the landing page on Yahoo Finance and be certain to follow the conversation on Twitter with @YahooFinance #BRKLiveStream.
Amica Insurance Teams Up with Yahoo for New Campaign to Assist Consumers Fix for Life’s Biggest Moments
We’re excited to partner with Amica Insurance for its new campaign to assist consumers, peculiarly millennials, prepare for their biggest milestones in life.
Working with Yahoo Storytellers, Amica is introducing Things They Don’t Tell You Most, a new branded destination that offers valuable information and communication on topics from ownership a car, to purchasing a home, to starting a family unit. Amica’s new entrada is geared towards millennials, many of whom are facing important decisions around these major milestones for the start time. Consumers can now admission exclusive videos and editorial features on Things They Don’t Tell You lot About to help them better empathize and navigate their insurance needs.
Equally role of this campaign, Amica will also align with Yahoo Finance’s pop live and short form video programming. Amica volition connect with viewers through custom integrations, including iii branded segments alongside episodes of “Midday Movers” and “Now I Become It” on Yahoo Finance. “Midday Movers” is a daily live show on Yahoo Finance that analyzes the pinnacle stories and stocks moving the market right now, discusses recent earnings reports and economic data and features tin can’t miss interviews with the top money managers and traders on Wall Street. “Now I Get It” is a popular video series on Yahoo Finance that explains the business organisation concepts and jargon from the biggest fiscal stories of the day. With branded segments actualization at the end of each episode, Amica will share tips and perspectives for consumers on purchasing insurance. Amica will also run extensive video, native and display advertisement across Yahoo properties to amplify the sponsorship and drive consumers to Things They Don’t Tell You About.
Launched in 2016, Yahoo Storytellers is a full service content marketing studio, producing premium video and editorial content for brands that is also backed past data. Yahoo Finance is the leading business organization news site, known for its unrivaled access to financial insights and news. In 2016, audiences spent nearly 13 1000000 hours watching Yahoo Finance’s three daily live shows including Market place Movers, Midday Movers and The Final Round. Additionally, time spent watching video beyond Yahoo’south properties has increased 85% twelvemonth over year, creating exciting new opportunities for marketers.
Researching the Definition of Skilful Online Conversations and How They Should Rank with the Yahoo News Annotated Comments Corpus
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By Courtney Napoles, Aasish Pappu, Joel Tetreault
Comment threads following online news articles often range from vacuous to hateful. That said, good conversations do
occur online, with people expressing unlike viewpoints and attempting to inform, convince, or ameliorate understand the other side, even if they can become lost amid the multitude of unconstructive comments. At Yahoo Inquiry, nosotros show in recent statistical experiments that automatically identifying and ranking good
conversations on pinnacle will cultivate a more than civil and constructive atmosphere in online communities and potentially encourage participation from more users [i].
In an effort to foster more than respectful online discussions and encourage more research amongst academics surrounding comments, we present the Yahoo News Annotated Comments Corpus (YNACC) via our data sharing program, Webscope. The corpus contains 522K comments from 140K annotate threads posted in response to online news articles, and contains manual annotations for a subset of two.4K comment threads and 9.2K comments. The annotations include half-dozen attributes of individual comments: sentiment, tone, agreement with other commenters, topic of the comment, intended audience, and persuasiveness. The annotations also include 3 attributes of threads: constructiveness, agreeability within the conversation, and type of conversation, i.due east., flamewars vs positive/respectful [2].
Annotated conversations in the YNACC corpus were used to create a predictive algorithm and railroad train statistical models to automatically find “skillful” conversations. We call these good conversations ERICs: Engaging, Respectful, and/or Informative Conversations, and they are characterized by:
A respectful exchange of ideas, opinions, and/or information in response to a given topic or topics.
Opinions expressed every bit an attempt to elicit a dialogue or persuade.
Comments that seek to contribute some new data or perspective on the relevant topic.
ERICs have no unmarried identifying attribute. A good conversation is adamant by how many respectful, engaging, and persuading comments are present. For instance, an commutation where communicants are in total agreement throughout can exist an ERIC, equally can an exchange with a heated disagreement. Our algorithm ranks either of these types of exchanges college than those that lack ERICs. Many of the labels for the ERICs in our dataset are the issue of a new coding scheme (annotation taxonomy) nosotros developed and are for characteristics of online conversations not captured by traditional argumentation or dialogue features. Some of the labels we collected have been annotated in previous work [iii,4], and this is the showtime time they are aggregated in a unmarried corpus at the dialogue level.
Additionally, we collected annotations on 1K threads from the Internet Statement Corpus, representing another domain of online debates. Our corpus and annotation scheme is the kickoff exploration of how characteristics of private comments contribute to the dialogue-level nomenclature of an commutation. We hope YNACC volition facilitate research to understand ERICs and other aspects of dialogue in general.
The technical contributions of this dataset are described in ii scientific papers:
[i] Courtney Napoles, Aasish Pappu, and Joel Tetreault. “Automatically Identifying Expert Conversations Online (Yep, they practice exist!)”. In Proceedings of ICWSM'17.
[2] Courtney Napoles, Joel Tetreault, Aasish Pappu, Enrica Rosato and Brian Provenzale. 2017. “Finding Skilful Conversations Online: The Yahoo News Annotated Comments Corpus”. In Proceedings of The 11th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (Police force-XI).
References:
[3] Rob Abbott, Brian Ecker, Pranav Anand, and Marilyn Walker. Net Statement Corpus 2.0: An SQL schema for dialogic social media and the corpora to go with it. LREC 2016.
[4] Marilyn Walker, Jean Fox Tree, Pranav Anand, Rob Abbott, and Joseph King. A corpus for research on deliberation and contend. LREC 2012.
Introducing Yahoo Sports Headlines on iOS and Android
By Matt Edelman, Production Manager
The mobile industry is shifting the way we swallow video content. At Yahoo, with our more than 650 one thousand thousand mobile users (and growing), continuing to create new experiences on these devices remains a top priority. Today we’re proud to introduce Yahoo Sports Headlines, a new visual way to tap through the mean solar day’south tops stories.
Bachelor in our popular Yahoo Sports app, Headlines are quick, loftier quality videos presented in an easy to view portrait format. Fans tin catch up on the latest news past tapping through each video and simply swipe upwardly to read the entire article. The videos are piece of cake to comment on in the app and can be shared on social networks. The new Headlines tab on the Yahoo Sports app can be found on both iOS and Android.
This is but the starting time for our new take on mobile video. Over the coming year, we plan to continue evolving the product and rolling it out beyond more Yahoo properties so stay tuned!
Admission The Yahoo Post App Now with Any E-mail Address
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By JoshJacobson, Senior Director of Product Management
Staying on top of things on a daily ground isn’t easy. The Yahoo Post app team is always looking to create new features that help people stay organized – from customizable swipes and people-merely notifications, to our recently appear top search results. These features accept helped brand reading, organizing and sending emails easier than always, and our users accept thanked us by making Yahoo Mail one of the top-rated email apps for iOS and Android. Today, we’re giving more people the opportunity to feel the Yahoo Mail service app, without having to switch to a brand new email address. Now, you tin utilize the app with your Gmail, Outlook or AOL email accost.
Read on to learn more nigh this update and some of the Yahoo Mail features you can start enjoying today. You’re on your style to a more organized life!
So, how does it work? From the welcome screen, tap your email provider, apply your Gmail, Outlook or AOL e-mail address to create a Yahoo account, and give Yahoo permission to sync your email messages in the Mail app. Immediately kickoff enjoying an organized inbox experience.
The Yahoo Mail app has a number of unique features, and below are simply a few that you can offset taking advantage of today:
Relevant search results:
Spend less time searching for the emails you demand. Now, when you search your email using a keyword, we’ll highlight the most relevant messages.
People-just notifications:
Get notified only when y'all receive a new email from a person, not companies or newsletters.
Customizable swipes:
Choose which action appears when you swipe left or right on a message, including delete, archive, motility and more.
Contacts: Yahoo Post displays comprehensive, editable contact cards, powered past Xobni, that notice all the electronic mail addresses and phone numbers associated with that person. We also pull photos from Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, and so you’ll come across great images from senders more often.
Personalized themes and stationery:
Make your inbox more personalized with custom themes and your notes more modern with stationery from Paperless Mail.
Ditch your password:
Never stress about remembering your password again. Enable Account Fundamental for secure, countersign-gratis sign in.
Multiple mailbox management:
If yous already have a Yahoo email business relationship, yous tin can easily connect and manage email accounts from Gmail, Outlook.com, Hotmail and AOL.
The new Yahoo Mail app is available in the App Store (iOS 4.15) and Google Play (Android 5.15). Check it out and let us know what you think — simply become to Settings and tap “Send Feedback.”
Yahoo Sports Announces Alive Bear witness Coverage for the NFL Draft
By Alan Springer, Executive Producer
On Th, April 27 beginning at 8pm ET, the Yahoo Sports team volition air a alive bear witness roofing the NFL Draft. Host Mike Hill will be joined by Charles Robinson, Pat Forde, Tank Williams, Brad Evans, Brandon Funston and former Super Basin champion Tony Siragusa in our New York City studios forth with alive reports and interviews from Eric Edholm with the draft’due south top prospects from Philadelphia. This much-anticipated live upshot on Yahoo will be sponsored by FX, which volition spotlight its upcoming series “Snowfall” through video advertising.
The Yahoo Sports squad volition bring NFL fans expert football and fantasy analysis, breaking news and alive questions from social media throughout the entire offset round. In addition on Day 1, we’ll have Matt Kelley from Player Profiler with analytics, player comparisons and breakdown numbers y'all won’t detect anywhere else.
On Friday, Day two of the draft, featuring rounds two and 3, the Yahoo Sports coverage will transform into an all-fantasy cast from 7pm - 8:30pm ET. Streaming on Yahoo Sports and Facebook Live, nosotros’ll utilise our signature Fantasy Football Live manner to project numbers of the incoming rookies too every bit where draftees however on the lath could observe their perfect fit. Our crew, featuring Liz Loza, Andy Behrens, Scott Pianowkski and Dalton Del Don, will interact with fans throughout the circulate via Facebook Live to observe out what’s on the viewers’ minds almost their favorite teams. Additionally, we’ll take ears on the ground in Philadelphia for any breaking news besides every bit possible interviews with the drafted prospects.
All Aboard, Captain is At present on Messenger!
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By Conrad Wai, VP, Product Management
We’re excited to bring Captain to Facebook Messenger every bit part of the kickoff moving ridge of bots on the newly announced Chat Extensions characteristic, enabling people to use Helm seamlessly with their friends and family right in Messenger.
Captain on Messenger streamlines organization among groups, family, and friends for managing activities with a shared tasks listing. Use Captain to figure out who’s bringing what on your side by side backpacking trip or program for an upcoming potluck dinner – without leaving Messenger. With Helm, you lot tin can brand plans with your favorite people without overloading them with tons of notifications and long, unorganized lists of requests and questions.
“We are delighted that Yahoo is launching Captain on Messenger,” said Stan Chudnovsky, Vice President of Production for Messenger. “This bot volition help users simplify group coordination, which tin can become harder the larger the group and longer the thread. This feel makes that interaction seamless.”
To start using Captain on Messenger, just add together the bot to your grouping chat.
We launched Captain final month for text messaging to assist families stay organized. We continue to iterate on our products to help users make life easier and more fun. Give Captain a try today and share feedback directly from the bot!
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Yahoo News Investigation | Weed & the American Family unit
By Martha Nelson, Global Editor in Chief
The topic of marijuana is at a tipping signal. While some aspects of this tectonic shift in American guild have been well covered – legalization, the business smash, the political divides – its impact on our most important relationships, those inside our homes, has been curiously underexamined.
Leveraging the power of the Yahoo network, Weed & the American Family unit is an in-depth and thoughtful test of the mode cannabis is affecting our families – from the generational split over usage, to shifting attitudes, to its bear upon on parenting and relationships.
At the center of our project is an sectional Yahoo News/Marist Poll which offers the most comprehensive test of this hot topic – Weed & the American Family unit.
This survey of 1,122 adults in America found that marijuana use has go surprisingly acceptable, specially in families where parents are users. Having used – or just tried – marijuana makes you much less concerned virtually its issue on your family, suggesting that as weed becomes more widespread in the age of legalization, more Americans will begin to experience the same way.
See the full poll results here: http://maristpoll.marist.edu/yahoo-newsmarist-poll/
Our examination includes an interview with former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy, who co-founded an anti-legalization grouping called Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM); a discussion with Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper about the lessons he’s learned as a reluctant leader on the front end lines of the marijuana revolution; and an intimate conversation with musician, mother and weed advocate Melissa Etheridge. Nosotros besides produced video diaries of families who share how marijuana has affected their lives, both negatively and positively, including a compelling account of a female parent using marijuana to care for postpartum low and anxiety.
Nosotros hope that as you read through our fascinating poll data, reporting and start-person accounts on marijuana use, y'all’ll exist able to develop a better sense of the complex and evolving attitudes about this securely controversial upshot in American life and that it generates discussion where it matters nigh – within your ain family.
Our Boomerang Employees Share Why They Returned to the ‘Hoo
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By Carolyn Clark, Corporate Communications
We call them our boomerangs and we are incredibly proud of these former employees who have come back to piece of work at the ‘Hoo. More than 10% of our workforce have “boomeranged” back to the company! We recently sat down with a few of them to notice out why, and we were incredibly inspired by their responses.
Yahoo’s transparency, scale, inclusive environment, sense of play and transformative thinking were just a few of the key themes that came up from our Boomerangs. To hear more than about why they returned to Yahoo in their ain words, bank check out this video.
Interested in a career at Yahoo? We’re hiring! Utilize at careers.yahoo.com.
