Yahoo! UK has announced plans to create thousands of news editorial contributors to the website.

The Yahoo! contributor network will see writers paid a small up front fee when they are commissioned to write an article, but there will also be performance-related payments based on the number of page views.

Yahoo! said it would pay contributors around 70p per 1,000 clicks. The UK website claims to reach a monthly audience of 26m unique users.

Read more at Press Gazette