The Yahoo Blog has announced the launch of Yahoo Underground, a new site backed by Yahoo News that's meant to look at fringe cultures. April Fool's joke? Could be, given how the post stresses "Beginning today, April 1...." Then again, the main feature about last year's World Science Fiction convention? Um, well, that seemed pretty normal to me. I mean, it wasn't April Fool's funny -- it just made me again wish I had made it. [...]

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Yahoo news to tilt to a lilt from Reuters reports that Yahoo is going to be launching a news show by the end of this quarter named "Odd News Underground." The spin to this news show is that the anchor will be singing the news that "will leave you tapping your feet," said Yahoo's Scott Moore. [...]

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Next month, PBS's Frontline will have a special on the current state of news reporting. Both Google and Yahoo will be taking part in the extensive series. From the show description: FRONTLINE interviews TV executives from ABC to The Daily Show, current and former TV anchors -- including Charles Gibson, Dan Rather, Connie Chung and Ted Koppel -- bloggers, Webcasters, and executives at Google and Yahoo! News, to see where the news business is headed and who is going to pay for serious news reporting. Check it out next month, beginning January 9. [...]

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