All Headline News focus is breaking headline news and a small investigative news effort. AHN covered international and national news using a network of journalists, writers, contributors and freelance "stringers" from the US, Europe, Asia, and Africa. AHN editors were located in various cities in the United States and abroad and managed electronic news gathering operations using a proprietary news content management system called NewsBahn. At its peak, AHN produced over 100,000 news articles a year. In January 2008, AHN was sued by much larger competitor Associated Press, claiming that AHN allegedly infringed on its copyrights and its hot news, a contentious 'quasi-property'
William Headline for the organization to solve its issues. Headline died on October 20, 2008 at age 76 after falling in his home in Bethesda, Maryland. William Headline William Headline (December 24, 1931 – October 20, 2008) served as Washington bureau chief for 12 years during the formative years of CNN and headed the Voter News Service during the United States 2000 presidential election. Given his name and his profession, Wolf Blitzer described Headline as having "the best name in news". William Headline was born in Cleveland, Ohio and grew up in East Aurora, New York. The family surname had been Americanized