The partnership between ABC News and Yahoo News is reaching the largest digital audience in America as it celebrates its first anniversary.

In October 2011, Yahoo and ABC announced they would share stories and Web video, co-produce coverage of some news events and integrate bureaus in New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. As of August, the pair reached an online audience of 59.1 million unique visitors, up 11 percent from a year earlier, according to new Nielsen data.

ABC News President Ben Sherwood's anniversary note to staff cites a higher figure from comScore: "an average monthly reach of over 85 million unique users since the launch." (more...)

Inside Facebook | The Atlantic
Facebook is testing a news feed feature that promotes "trending articles" that users are reading and automatically sharing through news apps, Brittany Darwell reports. The feature could drive more users to try "frictionless sharing" apps by news orgs like the Washington Post, Huffington Post or Yahoo. Interesting and slightly related: Sarah Kendzior writes how she read one Yahoo News story about a teenager killing a 9-year-old neighbor, and the site's personalization algorithm mistakenly "decided I liked reading about child murder."

"For the next month, I woke up to a barrage of horrifying stories that seemed to signal an epidemic of child torture in America. ... Yahoo News had become my own personal Hunger Games, making me a spectator to violence I would never voluntarily seek out."

And what that example means to the rest of us: (more...)

Yahoo | TechCrunch
Yahoo is expanding its integration of Facebook’s frictionless sharing system across 26 additional sites, after seeing it produce 1 million shares and 500,000 referrals a day to its U.S. news site.

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New York Times | Romenesko+ Misc.
Yahoo News is partnering with ABC News to share stories and feature Web video series. Their sites will have editorial independence, but the news outlets will share content, co-produce coverage of some news events and have “integrated bureaus” in New York, Washington and Los Angeles, "ABC News has historically languished low on the list of major news brands in terms of Web traffic," notes Brian Stelter, "but the tie-up with Yahoo may help change that." ABC News calls the deal "a game changer." || Related: Jeff Bercovici asks if Yahoo is moving away from original content (Forbes) | If the two companies don't leverage their strengths, Tim Carmody writes, they "are both left chasing The Huffington Post" (Wired.com) (more...)

The Cutline
Chris Suellentrop has been named deputy editor of Yahoo's network of news blogs. He tells Joe Pompeo:

The Internet's always been the most interesting thing in the world to me during my career. This isn't to say that the Times doesn't have an incredibly sophisticated website, but there's something fun about the idea of going back and being a pioneer again and sort of trying to figure this stuff out. ...Online readers have a huge appetite for long-form journalism. There's no reason Yahoo News can't swim in that pool.

Suellentrop was the editor of last week's Jose Antonio Vargas "My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant.". He also assigned and edited Mark Leibovich's award-winning profile of Politico's Mike Allen. || Suellentrop tweets: "I will remain a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine."

Poynter.org
Mallary Jean Tenore reports msnbc.com attracts many of its female readers through the Today Show content it features. Today.com content makes up 15 percent of msbnc.com’s overall traffic and has a target demo of women between the ages of 25 and 34. At Yahoo News, blogs aren’t specifically geared toward women, but business lead Paula McMahon believes they’ve helped attract a larger female audience — in part because some of the bloggers who were hired are women.