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title: "Yahoo Autos Is Being Shut Down"
description: "A highly-respected member of Internet automotive media bows out."
date: "2016-02-17"
modified: "2016-02-17"
authors:
  - name: "The Drive Staff"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/the-drive-staff"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/2227/yahoo-autos-is-being-shut-down"
categories:
  - "News"
---

# Yahoo Autos Is Being Shut Down

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Yahoo has announced that it will shutter the [*Yahoo Autos* digital magazine](<https://www.yahoo.com/autos/>) as part of a corporate slimming-down plan. In addition to closing its cars section, Yahoo [will discontinue six other verticals, including *Yahoo Travel*, *Yahoo Food*, *Yahoo Health* and *Yahoo Real Estate*](<https://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/139499083084/focusing-our-digital-content-efforts>). An earlier report by Capital New York indicated that [*Yahoo Tech* would also be killed off](<https://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2016/02/8591214/ax-falls-yahoo>), a claim that has since [been discredited by a Yahoo spokesperson](<https://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-shutting-down-half-of-its-verticals-including-tech-news-site-2016-2>), according to *Business Insider*; instead, the tech blog will reportedly be integrated into the news department’s umbrella.

“On our recent earnings call, Yahoo outlined out a plan to simplify our business and focus our effort on our four most successful content areas–News, Sports, Finance and Lifestyle,” Yahoo global editor-in-chief Martha Nelson said [in a Tumblr post](<https://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/139499083084/focusing-our-digital-content-efforts>). “We acknowledge the talent and dedication of an extraordinary group of journalists who brought new and newsworthy content to Yahoo.”

The automotive journalism world is a tight-knit group; many of us at *The Drive* not only know staffers and contributors at *Yahoo Autos*, but count them among our closest friends. We’ve driven with them on amazing roads, shared drinks and laughs with them at auto shows. The Internet lost a quality publication today. We wish everyone from *Yahoo Autos* the best.

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