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Posted March 2, 2009.
Newsknife rates news sites on relevance (how),
based on our analysis of the main US-oriented Google
News site.
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The following are from our sample of 54,143 listings by 3543 sites
for 441 news items during 2009.
Featured rating:
204 top headlines on the financial crisis from June 08 to February
09
Newsknife has made a list of the top headlines we found at Google
News for 204 financial crisis news items since the start of June
2008.
See all 204 headlines
and watch how the crisis grows. We found 8 headlines on the topic
last June and 53 this February.
Reuters led the way with coverage over the period. Newsknife found
35 top headlines from Reuters followed by 27 from Bloomberg. CNN
and FOX financial sites also did well. Here are are top 10.
1 Reuters 35
2 Bloomberg 27
3 New York Times 24
4 CNN CNNMoney.com
5 The Associated Press
6 FOXBusiness FOXNews
7 Washington
Post
8 ABC News
9 Wall Street Journal
10 Los Angeles Times
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Our standard monthly ratings:
Top sources for the 2 Top Stories
Dominating the Google News home page when you first view it are
their two "Top Stories". And dominating these are the
two news sites listed as their first sources. This is the best exposure
a news site could aim for.
The columns in the lists below are ranking, appearances noted by
Newsknife as No.1 source in the first Top Story, and the second
Top Story. The full lists of 22 and 30 sites are in the Newsknife
Members' Area.
February only:
1 3 2 Reuters, UK
2 2 4 New York Times
3 2 3 Bloomberg
4 3 1 The Associated Press
5 2 1 ABC News
6 1 2 Reuters
Year to March :
1 5 4 Reuters, UK
2 4 4 Bloomberg
3 4 4 Reuters
4 3 5 The Associated Press
5 3 3 Washington Post
6 2 4 New York Times
No. 1 sources
Google News usually lists seven news sites per major news item
on their home page and thirty on each sub-page, all "sorted
by relevance". We award each site points per appearance on
a sliding scale (with occasional tweaking) to get the ranked positions.
The second column is the number of appearances we recorded as the
first source for a news item. The full lists of 46 and 59 sites
are in the Newsknife Members' Area.
February only:
1 31 The Associated Press
2 20 Reuters, UK
3 17 New York Times
4 12 Reuters
5 10 Bloomberg
6 10 Christian Science Monitor
Year to March :
1 54 The Associated Press
2 42 New York Times
3 38 Reuters, UK
4 33 Reuters
5 24 FOX News
6 23 CNN
Home page sources
This table shows the number of appearances per site that Newsknife
found on the home page of Google News as source 1 to 7 for major
news items.
Last month we found Associated Press 31 times on the home page
of Google News as the first source for a news item, 21 times as
the second source, through to 13 times as the 7th source. The full
lists of 227 and 347 sites are in the Newsknife Members' Area.
February only:
1 The Associated Press
31 21 24 24 19 12 13
2 Al-Jazeera, Qatar
0 91 2 3 1 2 3
3 Reuters, UK
4 New
York Times
5 Bloomberg
6 BBC
News, UK
Year to March :
1 Al-Jazeera, Qatar
0 210 5 4 7 4 7
2 The Associated Press
54 37 58 49 51 33 25
3 New
York Times
4 Reuters, UK
5 Bloomberg
6 Reuters
Home page + 10 sub-pages sources
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This list shows the total number of appearances we observed for
each site. Detailed lists of the top 200 sites are in the Newsknife
Members' Area.
February only:
1 The Associated Press 763
2 Reuters, UK 381
3 AFP 365
4 New York Times 284
5 Al-Jazeera, Qatar 308
6 Xinhua, China 335
Year to March :
1 The Associated Press 2328
2 Reuters, UK 1335
3 Reuters 1068
4 Xinhua, China 1156
5 New York Times 887
6 AFP 1000
Most appearances on home page as % of site total
To get maximum traffic to your news site from Google News you need
to get as many as possible of your listings onto their home page.
Newsknife monitors listings on Google News home page and 10 sub-pages
deep.
This table shows appearances Newsknife found at Google News during
the month. It shows the % and number we found on the home page and
the combined total for the home and 10 sub-pages. The full list
of 113 sites is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
Feb: % HOME TOTAL
1 40.35 46 114 Christian Science Monitor
2 33.12 102 308 Al-Jazeera
3 25.00 9 36 The Indian Express
4 25.00 5 20 Daily Times
5 23.68 9 38 NECN
6 21.98 20 91 United Press International
% increase on Google News home page
Column 1 shows appearances that Newsknife found on Google News
home page year to date pre-February. Column 2 is appearances found
during February. Column 3 is the % increase for February. The full list
is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
Year thru
Jan FEB %
7 13 186 CNNMoney.com
10 14 140 Bizjournals.com
9 11 122 Boston Globe, MA
17 20 118 Chicago Tribune, IL
45 50 111 BBC News, UK
10 11 110 Jerusalem Post, Israel
New sites found last month
Newsknife noted 156 sites for the first time at Google News during
last month. Here are the Top 6 ranked by volume found. The columns
of the list are rank, home page appearances, total appearances.
(The list may include existing sites with major new addresses.)
February:
1 0 10 TPMDC
2 0 6 Global Crisis News, Spain
3 0 6 Outlook, India
4 0 5 Pacman Jonesin'
5 0 5 Worthy News
6 0 5 Tech Fragments, Birmingham
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