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All Headline News

All Headline News (AHN) was a United States-based news agency or wire service. It was founded in 2000 by W. Jeffrey Brown as an internet news search engine. It grew to become a major worldwide online newswire service, providing news and other content, to websites, digital signage, and other publishers who paid a fee for the service.

Company type

Private

news media, News agency, Internet, Web syndication

2000

2010

United States

Wire service

www.allheadlinenews.com

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 was breaking headline news and a small investigative news effort.

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[edit]

In January 2008, AHN was sued by much larger competitor Associated Press, claiming that AHN allegedly infringed on its copyrights and its hot news, a contentious 'quasi-property' right to facts.[1][2] 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.[3] According to court records, the case was dismissed pre-trial.[4]