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Yahoo News / Nexstar wire

U.S. center-to-center-left (Yahoo News); U.S. center-right corporate (Nexstar wire content)

Owned byYahoo News is owned by Yahoo Inc., which is majority-owned by the private equity firm Apollo Global Management (about 90% since 2021), with Verizon holding about 10%. The Nexstar wire is content from Nexstar Media Group, a publicly traded company that owns The Hill, NewsNation and, since its March 2026 merger with Tegna, about 265 local TV stations.
FundingYahoo News is funded mainly by advertising across Yahoo's properties, plus some subscription products, and is backed by Apollo's private equity capital. Nexstar's news operations are funded by TV advertising, retransmission fees paid by cable and satellite providers, and political advertising.
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Background

Yahoo News began as a wire-aggregation page in the late 1990s and grew into one of the most-visited U.S. news sites, mostly by assembling stories from outlets such as the AP and Reuters. It added original reporting from the 2010s, including a Washington bureau and investigative and political reporters, and its original work is generally seen as mainstream and modestly center-left. Ownership has changed several times: Yahoo was bought by Verizon in 2017 (merged with AOL into Verizon Media) and sold to Apollo Global Management in 2021 for about $5 billion, with Verizon keeping a minority stake. Under Apollo, Yahoo has acquired and cut properties and has been reported to be weighing a future public offering. Yahoo News also runs syndicated content from many partners, so a given article's slant often reflects its source rather than Yahoo's newsroom. Nexstar content, usually from its local stations and The Hill, is generally written in a conventional broadcast style, though the company's owners and regulatory dealings draw scrutiny. Nexstar's $6.2 billion Tegna deal won FCC and Justice Department approval in March 2026 after Trump publicly endorsed it, and Democratic state attorneys general sued, with a federal court issuing a preliminary injunction in April 2026 limiting integration. In September 2025, Nexstar pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! from its ABC stations hours after FCC Chair Brendan Carr criticized Kimmel, which led Democratic senators to ask whether the move was tied to the pending merger; Nexstar restored the show days later.

Sources

  1. Yahoo News (Wikipedia)
  2. Who Owns Yahoo in 2026: From Verizon To Apollo
  3. Is Yahoo Ready For Another IPO? (MediaPost)
  4. Nexstar Closes Tegna Merger Following FCC And DOJ Approval (Deadline)
  5. Donald Trump Endorses Nexstar-Tegna Merger (Deadline)
  6. Nexstar secures merger with Tegna after FCC, DOJ approval (The Hill)
  7. Jimmy Kimmel suspension and Nexstar preemption (Time)
  8. Democratic senators probe Nexstar, Sinclair over Jimmy Kimmel show ban (Fox News)

Profile compiled 2026-10-14; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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