he is not at yahoo!, right. he is editor-in-chief of patch.com, a division of aol that provides news to specific communities. very local. after him, we have the managing director for local news at yahoo.com, guiding the company's local coverage nationwide. last but not least is the senator who represents san francisco and san mateo counties, and he is the recipient of spj's freedom of information award in 2010. that is our panel. back to you, rose. >> before we start, i want to get a sense of who we have in the audience. how many of you currently work in the media? lots. how many of you used to work in the media? how many of you want to work in the media? ok, good. that will give us a sense of who we are talking with. great. every friday, we have a media roundtable and invite international, alternative, and mainstream journalists to talk about coverage of the week's news. we believe it is important to highlight good journalism because so much of it gets passed over. we think it is also important to start off on

even patch is looking for distribution, and one thing yahoo! has is distribution. when yahoo! provides you with a platform, you see it. publishers recognize that it is a fire hose. so we launched in october 30 neighborhoods. we are now up to about 400 neighborhoods in new york, san francisco, san jose, peninsula, a detroit suburb, and chicago. we are going to be launching in cleveland and dallas, end of april/early may, and as we iterate on product, we will get better, but the idea is that it is open, and it allows for publishers to publish their content on the platform, people to actually communicate and for dissipate on the platform, and for the original content if you want to do that. the exact reason that you mentioned, which is yahoo! is not going to know oakland better than oakland local, so why not have them be the voice, and we provide carriage for distribution? >> [inaudible] >> [inaudible] challenges described, and are they similar in your community? >> we broadcast news on a seven- day basis. one hour of cantonese news and one hour of mandated -- one hour of mandari

she has be at yahoo for two-and-a-half years. the chairman said bartz has support of yahoo's board. >>> nearly a quarter of california same-sex couples are raising children. that is according to the latest census. the 2010 census found same-sex couples are living in just about every corner of the state. that is 1% of all california households which are 26,000 homes. in the bay area, the city with the same-sex couples included guerneville, san francisco and oakland. >> if you >>> today at abc7 news at 4:00 -- the new species at land and sea. we tag along with the california of sciences on the ambitious expedition. we have that at 4:00. >>> it's pride weekend in san francisco. arts and entertainment director don sanchez has "what's hot." ♪ ♪ >> they are one of the most innovative music groups today. the jazz mafia orchestra will have you enthralled at stern grove on sunday. annual pride parade on sunday is the highlight of pride weekend. the biggest lgbt event of the year. ethnic dance festival keeps traditions alive through music

yahoo! engines this week. politicians were a topic that many people were looking up. i wonder why. >> not too surprising. a high profile murder trial piqued interest, as did a certain holiday i have to say is my favorite. yahoo! web life editor heather cabot has the details. good morning, heather. >> happy friday, guys. the race for the white house made waves on line this week as republicans took part in the first debate of primary season. yahoo! users were multitasking while the candidates took the stage in new hampshire surfing the web while watching it live. a quarter of the lookups for herman cane, former ceo of godfather's pizza, michele bachmann next with 21%. and former massachusetts governor, mitt romney garnered 17% of search queries. while the gop contenders fought for attention, a former democratic white house hopeful made a splash this week when he smiled for his mug shot. yahoo! users wanted to see with their own eyes and scoured the web for john edwards' strange grin in the pho

she has be at yahoo for two-and-a-half years.he chairman said bartz has support of yahoo's board. >>> nearly a quarter of california same-sex couples are raising children. that is according to the latest census. the 2010 census found same-sex couples are living in just about every corner of the state. that is 1% of all california households which are 26,000 homes. in the bay area, the city with the same-sex couples included guerneville, san francisco and oakland. >> if you are ready we will [ male announcer ] nature is unique... ...authentic... ...pure... and also delicious. ♪ like nature valley. granola bars made with crunchy oats and pure honey. because natural is not only good, it also tastes good. nature valley -- 100% natural. 100% delicious. >>> today at abc7 news at 4:00 -- the new species at land and sea. we tag along with the california of sciences on the ambitious expedition. we have that at 4:00. >>> it's pride weekend in san francisco. arts and entertainment director don sanchez has "what's hot." ♪ ♪ >> they are one o

becky worley of yahoo! kim mcnicholas of forbes. so, though i am one, explain to me what a geek dad is. >> it really appeals to a whole lot of people, but i tend to think of it as people who grew up a little nerdier, the science, the math people, but you know, always a little bit outside of the popular culture way back when, and oddly enough, the popular culture has caught up with that a little bit now. >> come back to us, yes. >> but the interesting thing is we've all grown up and we're now parents and we've got kids. and you know, normal culture hasn't always sort of, you know, looked on the things we love as great things to be doing or teaching your kids, but we're here to support the geeks that are parents now and telling you, you know, what's the best stage to show your kids "star wars," and which episode goes first, you know. >> well, episode three goes first, right? or episode four. four, four, four. >> okay. that was close. really close. >> had to think about that. what's your favorite geeky thing t

not the only trouble for yahoo! either, also in china, yahoo!trying to figure to out what went wrong with alibaba. jack ma talk together "wall street journal's" all things digital conference said yahoo! should have known he was going to spin off alibaba. when he did it yahoo! shares, laura, just got crushed there are two posle builts, either the yahoo! board knew about this ahead of time and didn't tell investors, i'm not throwing that accusation out, but one of two possibilities, the only other possibility, they didn't know. either they knew and didn't say but didn't know, either way it is a disaster. >> tough to make that for them. >>> k a 26 now. community leaders in one city coming together to speak out against recent violence in the area. >> i'm bob redell live here in san francisco. you thought escaping for alcatraz was hard, add a bicycle run and a run on top of that get he is harder. we will explain, coming up. >>> new this morning, i'm live from the san jose police department this morning. coming up in my live report, i'm going to expla

, but not least, we have our representatives from the business advisory panel, christina page with yahoo and melissa. [applause] >> good afternoon, mayor lee. we were asked to just comment very briefly before sending our letter on the experience that companies had in the advisory panel. on behalf of yahoo, in addition to finding this dialogue both inspiring and thought provoking, it doesn't sound very reassuring because we discovered that the stea's climate action plan shares a lot of the beliefs that we have in constructing our corporate environmental strategy about how you attack this proper of climate change. the first is, how urgent is this problem? the action on climate change is not a good business strategy. inaction on this issue is going to be very costly to businesses and society. by taking a stand, by saying we're going to get to 25% reduction by 2017 on community greenhouse gas emissions, the city is recognizing the urgency of this problem. number two, i think we found that if you do this properly, you can save money, you can generate jobs, you can create new markets, contrary

for yahoo to come through.s received a black eye over this because it says it was caught by surprise by this ownership transfer even though alibaba has said that yahoo's known about this for some time. yahoo's shares have been down because of that. it's got a 43% stake in alibaba itself worth around $10 billion. that's nearly half of yahoo's overall market value. >>> and google's executive chairman eric schmitt former ceo of the company during a conference said that if he had to do it all over again he would have gone after facebook a little differently. he said four years ago he was writing memos about the fact that they needed to do something about social networking and friending but says that's basically all they can was write memos and they really screwed up. >>> stock market pulling back off the adp report. dow down 55, nasdaq down 4, s&p down 5. >> thank you. jason brooks with kcbs and cbsmoneywatch.com. >>> time now for a look at what's coming up later on the morning -- this morning on "the early show."

"breaking dawn" has become the most searched movie trailer on yahoo!week, outranking previews of other summer movies, "harry potter," "x-men," "transformers three" and "green lantern." have a great weekend, guys. back to you. >> november 18th. by that time we will know if the nfl lockout has been settled. know that it has been settled. whether the canucks are the defending stanley cup champions. if sarah palin will be running for president. and will and kate will have made their first trip to the u.s. as a married couple. >> i'm looking forward to them coming to the u.s. i think that is going to be fun. when we come back, everyone, now that oprah is off the air. what happens to her employees? will she fire them? will she not fire them? what is she going to do? we have the scoop in the skinny. >> did kim kardashian cheat on her fiance? another thing to find out in the skinny. so salacious, you're watching "world news now."h@h@h@h@h@h@h@@ ♪ skinny ♪ so skinny >> it's friday. time for "the skinny." a lot of people are happy the workweek is over. a lot of

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yahoo!ball scandal. >> people were also searching a diva's bittersweet fight. and a holiday today. yahoo! editor heather cabot joins us with more. >> hey, guys, the nba finals triumphed on the web, basketball fans sought out all the news on the matchup between the miami heat and the dallas mavericks. the heat's lebron james the most searched player this week followed by dirk nowitzki and miami's dwayne wade. and if the championship was based on yahoo! search queries alone, miami would have a definite edge over dallas. right now, the heat's head coach, erik spoelstra is getting five times the sergesarches of dallas' rick carlisle. there are 24% more lookups for miami than dallas. especially among men, under age 34. but, dallas fans can take heart that there is a lot of buzz about the mavericks logo. searches up 860% this week. and mavs' tickets for next season the searches jump nearly 500%. in other sports news, the ncaa investigation of ohio state's football program and focus on quarterback

nonetheless, there are reports yahoo! has approached hulu about a sale. yahoo! holds it's shareholder meeting of it's a company that truck he would. yahoo! turned around under new management 360 degrees. plus if you remember your geometry is not a nice thing to say. buzz about silicon valley startup that's going to make a special camera. we checked archives. you know what? we showed you this technology way back in 2009. the company is called litro born in a lab in stanford. here is a picture of the flower. you click on the girl in the background and she comes into focus. this hours or days or weeks after you actually took the picture. >> interesting. >> what happens is these new special cameras take all the possible pictures, all the possible focal links there are. later you can decide how to focus the picture, a year after you took the picture. >> but it has to be taken with that camera. >> with the special camera. the technology probably will end up inside nikon, that kind of thing. the idea you have to focus a camera or you can't change a picture once its tak

investors in the mood to buy today, facebook has beaten out yahoo in a key category. >> move over, yahooacebook set to surpass yahoo becoming the top display ad seller in the u.s. with more than half a billion users foosbook has lured advertisers and display ad revenue up 81% this year. jet fuel is going green. 10 airlines agreed to buy renewable jet fuel. that is according to the air pans port association. clois closing out today's serks higher for the dow. and bank of america needs to raise capitol and plans to sell part of the stake in china construction bank according to three people and will be used to boost capitol. >> coming up next krks they do this? >> i felt like i had been blind. >> a man says he was kicked off of an airplane because of his disability. >> with instability in the housing market many of us are remodeling but there are common mistakes that can cost you big time. 7 on your side is next. >> and the program encouraging child's play this summer in order to keep your kids healthy. >>> the kitchen is the heart of the home and the most popular room to renovate. the aver