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Posted July 3, 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 152,222 listings by 5501 sites
for 1494 news items during 2009.
Featured rating:
Top ranked sites for Iran election news coverage at Google News
Google News carried substantial coverage of the recent tumultuous
Iranian elections. The coverage could be called "groundbreaking"
as it included Wikipedia as a news source; for example
Wikipedia: Iranian election protests.
Newsknife noted over 5000 headlines on the topic by over 500 sites
at Google News during June. See
the 33 top headlines in date order.
Here are the top 10 of 45 sites we found with Iran election listings
on the home page of Google News. For example we found AP there 19
times.
1 Associated Press 19
2 Times
Online 16
3 Los Angeles
Times 14
4 Voice of America 13
5 New York Times 12
6 Reuters 12
7 Bloomberg 11
8 guardian.co.uk 10
9 Washington Post 10
10 Wikipedia: 2009
Iranian election protests 10
You can see our full ranked list of 45 sites with their headlines
(most link to the stories) in the Newsknife Members' Area along
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Our standard monthly ratings:
Top Blogs
Blogs found on Google News home page + 10 sub-pages deep. Rated
by volume + Google News relevance ranking. Blogs listed here may
link to one of many blogs at that site. Visit the Newsknife Members'
Area to see the full list of blogs and blog headlines
June:
162 blogs and their 1631 blog headlines found at Google News:
1 New York Times 204
2 Los Angeles Times 132
3 Wall Street Journal 108
4 ABC News 77
5 FOXNews 78
6 Washington Post Blogs 78
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 18 and 39 sites are in the Newsknife
Members' Area.
June only:
1 4 3 Washington
Post
2 2 5 The
Associated Press
3 2 2 Bloomberg
4 2 0 Wall
Street Journal, NY
5 1 2 Reuters
6 1 1 Christian Science Monitor
Year to July :
1 21 21 The
Associated Press
2 18 14 Reuters
3 10 13 Bloomberg
4 8 4 Wall
Street Journal, NY
5 7 6 Reuters, UK
6 8 4 Washington
Post
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 53 and 94 sites
are in the Newsknife Members' Area.
June only:
1 37 The
Associated Press
2 34 New
York Times
3 24 Reuters
4 18 Los
Angeles Times, CA
5 14 Washington
Post
6 13 Wall
Street Journal, NY
Year to July :
1 180 The
Associated Press
2 139 New
York Times
3 126 Reuters
4 76 CNN
5 72 Washington
Post
6 69 Voice
of America
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 37 times on the home page
of Google News as the first source for a news item through to 11
times as the 7th source. The full lists of 263 and 799 sites are
in the Newsknife Members' Area.
June only:
1 The
Associated Press
37 65 38 28 19 17 11
2 Al-Jazeera, Qatar
3 80 6 5 4 7 3
3 New
York Times
4 Reuters
5 Washington
Post
6 Wall
Street Journal, NY
Year to July :
1 The
Associated Press
180 267 192 145 135 91 81
2 Al-Jazeera, Qatar
6 418 19 25 27 23 23
3 New
York Times
4 Reuters
5 Washington
Post
6 Voice
of America
Master subpage sources
If you click to see all the articles for any Google News story
you'll find a master subpage that usefully gathers listings into
groups. This table shows the number of appearances per site that
Newsknife found on master subpages last month as a source for major
news items.
We found Associated Press 25 times as the first source there through
to 1 time as the 7th source. In total we found them 222 times on
master subpages. The full list of 653 sites is in the Newsknife
Members' Area.
June only:
1 The
Associated Press
25 27 28 23 26 1 222
2 Washington
Post
9 4 9 10 4 5 284
3 New
York Times
4 Reuters
5 Wall
Street Journal, NY
6 Los
Angeles Times
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.
June only:
1 The Associated Press 1754
2 Reuters 1113
3 Washington Post 879
4 New York Times 852
5 BBC News, UK 740
6 Wall Street Journal, NY 707
Year to July :
1 The Associated Press 7260
2 Reuters 3694
3 New York Times 2877
4 Washington Post 2743
5 AFP 3045
6 BBC News, UK 2657
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 146 sites is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
Jun: % HOME TOTAL
1 100.00 62 62 Wikipedia: Iranian
presidential election
2 36.36 4 11 TheNewsTribune.com
3 21.43 3 14 E!
Online
4 21.26 108 508 Al-Jazeera
5 16.67 2 12 Boston
Channel.com
6 15.38 2 13 CBS
New York
% increase on Google News home page
Column 1 shows appearances that Newsknife found on Google News
home page year to date pre-June. Column 2 is appearances found during
June. Column 3 is the % increase for June. The full list is in the
Newsknife Members' Area.
Year thru
May JUN %
22 11 50 PRESS
TV, Iran
157 63 40 Wall
Street Journal, NY
67 27 40 Telegraph.co.uk
25 10 40 Politico, DC
26 10 38 Atlantic
Online
27 10 37 US
News
New sites found last month
Newsknife noted 321 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.)
June:
1 62 62 Wikipedia: Iranian
presidential election, 2009
2 0 29 International
Business Times UK
3 0 14 Cato
@ Liberty
4 0 13 The
Palmetto Scoop
5 0 11 Fifa.com
6 1 9 Alternative
Health Journal
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