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. It was founded in 2000 by W. Jeffrey Brown as an internet news search engine. It had grown to become a major worldwide online news wire service, providing news and other content, to websites,

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, and other publishers who pay a fee for the service. The company's daily news coverage included international headline news, business, entertainment, celebrity gossip, sports, technology, health and politics. The company also provides a variety of non-editorial content services such as weather, horoscopes, trivia and business data. AHN's primary focus is breaking headline news and a small investigative news effort.

Organization

AHN covered international and national news using a network of journalists, writers, contributors and freelance "stringers" from the US,

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. AHN editors were located in various cities in the United States and abroad and managed electronic news gathering operations using a proprietary news content management system called NewsBahn. At its peak, AHN produced over 100,000 news articles a year.

History

* 2000: AHN is founded as an internet news search engine. * 2003: Company begins offering news and content for syndication to websites. * 2004: AHN acquires WeatherClicks. Integrates weather into syndication services. * 2005: AHN starts producing and distributing original news with the purpose of syndicating news. * 2007: Launches sports, celebrity and entertainment news divisions. * 2010: Ceases operations.

Associated Press controversy

In January 2008, AHN was sued by much larger competitor

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, claiming that AHN allegedly infringed on its copyrights and its

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, a contentious 'quasi-property' right to facts. The AP complaint alleged that AHN reporters had copied facts from AP news reports without paying a syndication fee. After AHN moved to dismiss all but the copyright claims set forth by AP, the suit was dismissed. According to court records, the case was dismissed pre-trial.Citizen Media Law Project
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References

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