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New York - Yahoo, hoping to attract younger audiences to its news site, is making its first major foray into original content with a brash, one-man effort to illuminate the world's armed conflicts. The internet company's media group has hired Kevin Sites, a 42-year-old war correspondent who has worked for NBC and CNN, to spend a year traveling the globe and telling the human stories behind some of...

NEW YORK (Mediaweek) Yahoo! has hired veteran war correspondent Kevin Sites to launch an online news journal, Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone, which the company claims will provide users "an unprecedented view of armed conflict throughout the world." Hot Zone, which will cover Sites' travels throughout war-torn areas of the globe for a one-year period, will be aimed at a worldwide audience. Thus far...

Yahoo Inc. has been talking like a major media company. Today it will start acting like one. Ten months after Lloyd Braun, former chairman of the ABC television network, began plotting the company's content strategy, the Internet giant plans to announce today the first of many original programs expected to come from the Yahoo Media Group headquarters in Santa Monica. Yahoo, which for years...

Yahoo! has made its first move into original online video programming by hiring a seasoned TV news reporter to report on wars worldwide. "Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone" launches Sept. 26 and will focus entirely on his travels as a war correspondent, The New York Times reported Monday. Yahoo!'s Lloyd Braun told the Times the Web portal is looking to develop signature programming news, sports, health...

Yahoo said Monday it will add the role of online news generator to its familiar role as news aggregator with firsthand reports from areas of armed conflict around the world. Starting later this month, the portal company plans to feature reports by Kevin Sites, a veteran television correspondent, to be the single source of news for "Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone." Mr. Sites, 42, is a self-styled...

NEW YORK – Internet media company Yahoo Inc on Monday said it had hired a veteran war correspondent to tell personalized tales from conflicts around the world in a bid to bring younger viewers back into the news fold. Journalist Kevin Sites, whose video footage of a U.S. Marine shooting dead an unarmed Iraqi prisoner in a Falluja mosque last year prompted widespread controversy, will visit 31...

Yahoo News is sending a veteran war correspondent on a journey to cover every armed conflict in the world within a year. Yahoo Inc. announced Monday that it is launching Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone. The accomplished combat journalist will embark on the solo trip Sept. 26. He will combine the key multimedia elements, including exclusive video feed, text and audio, to narrate stories about the...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Yahoo, in its first big move into original online video programming, is betting that war and conflict will lure new viewers. Lloyd Braun, the former chairman of ABC's entertainment group who now oversees Yahoo's expanded media group in Santa Monica, has hired Kevin Sites, a veteran television correspondent, to produce a multimedia Web site that will report on wars around the...

NEW DELHI, September 10: Indiatimes is most preferred news source on the Web for almost one out of every three Net users in India, according to a recent survey of India's Internet scene. Be it general, sport or event related news, it is the top player in this category with 30 per cent user share. Indiatimes’ popularity can be attributed to its close association with Times of India, one of the...

Former MSNBC and CNN war correspondent and blogger Kevin Sites found himself on the other side of the headlines last fall, when he videotaped a U.S. Marine shooting and killing an injured, unarmed Iraqi insurgent in a Fallujah mosque. That wasn’t the first time Sites had been at the pounding heart of the action; earlier in the war Iraqi fedayeen soldiers ambushed his Tikrit-bound car and held...