NEWSBREAK

News Break connects and empowers local users, local content creators, and local businesses at scale, with the goal of helping people everywhere live safer, more vibrant, more truly connected lives. By forging close partnerships with thousands of local publishers and businesses around the country, News Break’s priority is to help a new generation of readers find and engage with vital, locally published content and information. The company was founded in 2015 by ex-Yahoo executive Jeff Zheng, with Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang as Chief Advisor. Ex-Microsoft executive Harry Shum is the Chairman and ex-HuffPost and ex-Yahoo News executive Vincent Wu is the COO.