By Caragh Fisher 
 
 This morning we’re announcing a major new alliance with Yahoo! that will vault ABC News to the forefront of digital news and information. Starting today, we will be the premier news provider across the Yahoo! News Network and we will co-produce original web series featuring ABC anchors and correspondents. 
 
 Teaming with Yahoo! will transform the future of ABC News by distributing your journalism to a vast new audience – some 100 million people a month on the new Yahoo! News – ABC News Network. 
 
 This relationship will give ABC News an unrivaled ability to reach across the Web, combining Yahoo!’s vast distribution and cutting-edge technology with our award-winning journalism. 
 
 We’ve spoken many times about our goals for ABC News: Unity, Creativity and Reach. Partnering with Yahoo! hits the sweet spot of each of those goals and fuels our strategy to win the future of news and information. 
 
 For years, we’ve proudly proclaimed that more Americans get their news from ABC News than any other source. Going forward, we will greatly expand this leadership by building a connection with a whole new online audience. 
 
 Here are the key elements of our far-reaching relationship with Yahoo! - 
 
 Even greater, easier access to ABC News journalism - branded ABC News content will now appear on the Yahoo! News Network – the #1 online news destination in the U.S.; ABC News will be the premier news provider on Yahoo! News, prominently integrated across the entire Yahoo! network. 
 
 Launch of GoodMorningAmerica.com - a highly-interactive online destination within the Yahoo! network offering our audience more ways to connect before, during and after the broadcast 24/7. 
 
 New original web series from ABC News anchors and correspondents – ABC News and Yahoo! will team up to launch an exclusive slate of original video programming featuring ABC News anchors including Diane Sawyer, Barbara Walters, George Stephanopoulos, Christiane Amanpour, Katie Couric, Bill Weir, Dr. Richard Besser and others. 
 
 We’ve been working for many months on this important and powerful alliance. I hope you’ll join me in the 5th floor newsroom at 11:00 a.m. ET today to celebrate this new relationship and toast Joe Ruffolo and the stealth team that worked creatively and tirelessly to make it happen. 
 
 In the meantime, you’ll find more information here. 

 Yahoo and ABC News have announced an agreement to share content including stories and web videos. 
 
 Under the deal, announced Monday, Yahoo and ABC News will reach 100 million users a month and redistribute content including GoodMorningAmerica.com, which is now on Yahoo. 
 
 The two will also introduce original web video programming including Newsmakers, Around the World with Christiane Amanpour and This Could Be Big. The editorial teams from both will collaborate on co-branded content that will run on Yahoo News and ABC News sites. 
 
 The two companies' traffic will be reported together. The two entities have worked together before. Since 2005, the two have had a video-sharing agreement. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Yahoo!, the premier digital media company, and ABC News today announced they will join forces to launch a strategic online news alliance that will deliver content to more than 100 million U.S. users each month. 
 
 
 
 This new venture blends ABC News' global newsgathering operation and unrivaled lineup of trusted anchors and reporters with Yahoo! News' unmatched audience, depth and breadth of content. Beginning today, GoodMorningAmerica.com, launches on Yahoo! along with three new online-first video series hosted by the award-winning, trusted anchors of ABC News. 
 
 
 
 As announced on Good Morning America, George Stephanopoulos' interview with President Obama, drawing on questions posed by readers of Yahoo! and ABCNews.com, will be webcast live on Yahoo.com and ABCNews.com today at 2:35 p.m. ET. 
 
 
 
 "Yahoo! is committed to building the richest set of premium and personalized content experiences for our users. Our deep collaboration with ABC News further strengthens Yahoo! as the No. 1 online news source, greatly enhancing our already robust news content," said Ross Levinsohn, executive vice president of Americas at Yahoo!. "ABC News and Ben Sherwood's vision is completely symbiotic with ours; together we can create highly engaging experiences for more than 100 million users a month that will set the standard for the industry." 
 
 
 
 "This relationship will give ABC News an unrivaled ability to reach across the Web, combining Yahoo!'s vast distribution and cutting-edge technology with our award-winning journalism. For years, we've proudly proclaimed that more Americans get their news from ABC News than any other source," said Ben Sherwood, president of ABC News. "Going forward, we will greatly expand this leadership by building a connection with a whole new online audience." 
 
 
 
 Under the agreement, ABC News becomes the premier news provider on Yahoo! News, with editorial teams from both organizations collaborating on original coverage to appear on both the Yahoo! News and ABC News sites. Teams will co-produce coverage for major news events and will have integrated bureaus in New York; Washington, D.C.; and Los Angeles. ABC News content will be integrated throughout the Yahoo! News network, including the Yahoo! front page. ABC News will maintain editorial control over ABCNews.com and GoodMorningAmerica.com, and Yahoo! News will maintain editorial control of all its sites. 
 
 
 
 The new GoodMorningAmerica.com site, powered by Yahoo!'s global technology platform, will feature an influx of original text and video content generated by ABC News. The video series launched today include "Newsmakers," which features ABC News anchors like Diane Sawyer, George Stephanopoulos, Barbara Walters, Katie Couric, Robin Roberts and others interviewing global leaders and celebrities, starting with Stephanopoulos' sitdown with President Barack Obama today. 
 
 
 
 The other two debuting video series are "Around the World with Christiane Amanpour," in which the renowned global reporter and "This Week" anchor offers analysis and context on the international news headlines of the day, and "This Could Be Big," anchored by Bill Weir, which spotlights hot new technology products and explores the future of innovation. 
 
 

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– ABC News and Yahoo! announced a major new alliance today that will make ABC the “premier news provider” for Yahoo’s news sites. “Teaming with Yahoo will transform the future of ABC News by distributing your journalism to a vast new audience,” ABC News President Ben Sherwood wrote in his announcement, boasting that the combined ABC-Yahoo juggernaut would reach 100 million readers a month. Yahoo has also partnered with the network to create a new GoodMorningAmerica.com site, which launches today. The two companies have had a video sharing agreement since 2005, Mashable notes, though this appears to go beyond that, with ABC producing original exclusive video for the web, featuring top-tier anchors like Diane Sawyer, Barbara Walters, and George Stephanopoulos. “ABC News and Ben Sherwood's vision is completely symbiotic with ours,” one Yahoo exec said, promising content that “will set the standard for the industry.”