Sunnyvale, Calif. - Yahoo (NASD: YHOO) on Friday claimed victory in Election Day online news traffic, boasting that its Yahoo News site attracted 7.6 million unique visitors on Nov. 4, besting MSNBC.com (6.8 million), CNN.com (6.3 million), AOL News (2.5 million) and FoxNews.com (1.9 million). The traffic data cited was provided by comScore Media Metrix.

San Francisco - The person who posted a fake story to CNN's iReport.com citizen journalism site earlier this month that said Apple (NASD: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack was an 18-year-old, Bloomberg reported. Investigators have so far found no evidence that the teenager attempted to profit from the 5.4% plunge in Apple's share price that resulted from the false report.

New York - Apple (NASD: AAPL) has denied a report posted on CNN's iReport citizen journalism site that said its chief executive, Steve Jobs, had suffered "a major heart attack" and was rushed to an emergency room, Reuters reported.

Atlanta - Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) CNN has made its online news video embeddable on third-party sites, LostRemote.com reports. Fellow news outlets MSNBC.com, CBSNews.com, FoxNews.com and others already offer such a feature.

Mixx.com, the social news website supported by many big mainstream media brands, is in the news for releasing results that show its traffic has more than doubled in May. I was following the thread on this story this morning on Techmeme and thought I'd share some Hitwise data that may answer some of the questions being raised. Marshall Kilpatrick at Red Write Web suggests that while the growth is impressive he is surprised the site receives less than 5% of the traffic that goes to Digg. Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch points out that the growth in May came as a result of links from the bottom of all CNN.com stories.

McLean, Va. - Mixx, an online social news start-up that allows users to submit news stories, vote on their favorites and view the most popular on the site's front page, said on Wednesday that it has forged a key partnership with CNN. Under the deal, users of CNN.com will be able to add CNN headlines and articles to Mixx's platform through "add to" Mixx buttons on CNN.com story pages.

A colleague forwarded me a fantastic article from Ad Age "It's Web 3.0, and Someone Else's Content is King". The article is worth a read for anyone in the content business. The author, Matthew Creamer, suggests that Web 3.0 will be about monetizing the web's openness and points to examples in the news business of websites aggregating other people's content for profit. Are content aggregators in fact growing in popularity? The author cites Michael Wolff of Newser: "The space is heating up". According to internet usage data, is it?

Atlanta - Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) CNN plans this week to launch iReport.com, a new site that will feature citizen journalism photos and videos submitted by CNN viewers. CNN said it has received over 100,000 submissions since launching its iReport feature in 2006, including nearly 10,000 in January alone, but has used less than 10% of all submissions in its broadcasts or on its website. Unlike the iReport submissions that CNN has utilized thus far, the content uploaded to iReport.com site will be not be subject to fact-checking.

CNN and YouTube hosted a Republican debate yesterday, and Hillary Clinton’s campaign has emerged as the hot topic.  It happened when retired Brig. Gen. Keith Kerr, whose affiliation to Clinton was unknown, stood and asked the candidates, “why you think that American men and women in uniform are not professional enough to serve with gays and lesbians,” Politico reports.  According to a press release from the Clinton campaign, Kerr was named co-chairman of the New York senator’s National Military Veterans group this month.

New York - Time Warner's (NYSE: TW) CNN Worldwide on Wednesday announced plans to "significantly increase the number of correspondents worldwide," as part of a multi-million dollar investment that will include the creation of a London-based digital production unit. The new unit will work alongside the television operation, and "produce and feed the rapidly growing number of new platforms that CNN services globally."

Espoo, Finland - Nokia announced on Tuesday that it has signed deals with CNN and six other video producers to provide content for distribution on its mobile devices. Joining existing partners YouTube and Reuters in providing content to the Nokia Video Center are CNN, IBN News, Jamba, Sony Pictures, RooftopComedy, ROK and Versaly Entertainment. The video will be compatible with Nokia's Nseries devices, including the Nokia N95.

Fairfax, Va. - TrafficLand, an online aggregator of live traffic video, on Wednesday announced a deal to deliver real-time traffic camera content from dozens of markets for broadcast use on cable news giant CNN. The agreement gives CNN the ability to select live video streams from thousands of traffic cameras nationwide and insert them into CNN programming. TrafficLand's 4,000 cameras in more than 50 markets cover day-to-day traffic conditions and often capture newsworthy incidents and weather related events.

New York - Time Warner's CNN cable TV news network on Thursday announced it will end its 27-year relationship with the Reuters news service, opting to cut costs and instead focus investment on its own news-gathering, Reuters reported.

Los Angeles - After "scheduling conflicts" threatened to limit the Republican version of a CNN and YouTube-sponsored presidential debate to just three candidates, a new date has been set for late November and both Rudy Giuliani and John McCain have committed to participate, Variety reported.

New York - The CNN/YouTube Republican presidential debate may be rescheduled, to accommodate candidates including Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney who have said they can't make the event currently slated for Sept. 17 in Florida, according to The Hollywood Reporter.