Yahoo partners with newspaper company McClatchy

Yahoo News will soon be displaying blogs and articles from foreign correspondents with the U.S.' third-largest newspaper company, The McClatchy Co. The new site on Yahoo News, called "Trusted Voices," will launch within a month or so with reports from Baghdad, Cairo, Jerusalem and Beijing. One blog will be written by native Iraqi staffers based in the McClatchy Baghdad bureau.

"Maybe Hannah Allam will provide a list of the Egyptian Web sites or blogs she finds most useful in understanding politics there; Dion Nissenbaum might help you unravel the political connections of those Israeli newspapers you always hear quoted. Tim Johnson, who covers China and Asia from Beijing, could offer insight into obstacles facing people thinking about going for the Olympics in 2008," Howard Weaver, vice president of news at McClatchy, wrote in a post on Yahoo's corporate blog site.

This isn't Yahoo's first foray into international news. In 2005, the company hired Kevin Sites, former CNN war correspondent and NBC News producer, as its first-ever news correspondent. He traveled to war zones around the world and reported on them exclusively for Yahoo for a year. That assignment ended in the fall and a new one will be announced this spring, a Yahoo spokesman said. Yahoo also has deals with financial columnists to provide content for its popular finance Web site.

McClatchy has 31 daily and 50 weekly newspapers including The Miami Herald, The Sacramento Bee, The Kansas City Star and The Charlotte Observer.