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Posted January 2, 2010
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 311,757 listings by 7473 sites
for 2780 news items during 2009.
Featured rating:
Strong newcomers during 2009
Here are the top 12 sites found by Newsknife at Google News for
the first time during 2009. You can see the full list of 2501 newly-found
sites in the Newsknife Members'
Area.
The sites are ranked by volume found at Google News on the home
page and 10 sub-pages deep. The columns of the list are rank, home
page appearances and total appearances.
For example, we sighted Wikipedia at Google News 511 times, including
383 times on Google News home page.
Sites we found earlier in the year will have an advantage in volume
found. It may not be substantial though. We first sighted Wikipedia
at Google News in July.
Top newcomers of 2009:
1 383 511 Wikipedia
2 9 681 9&10 News
3 1 663 WashingtonTV
4 4 581 MyStateline.com, IL
5 5 453 TPMDC
6 2 420 Politics Daily
7 7 211 True/Slant
8 0 205 Ma'an News Agency
9 1 202 Gaea Times
10 2 193 GlobalPost
11 1 191 NTDTV
12 1 170 LALATE
Newsknife found 2501 sites for the first time at Google News during
2009 compared with 3164 in 2008. Overall, we have sighted 11,742
news sites at Google News.
A quick analysis doesn't reveal any obvious trend to the new sites.
Wikipedia is a special case.
Google News carried substantial coverage of the tumultuous Iranian
elections. The coverage included the "groundbreaking"
use of Wikipedia as a news source; for example
Wikipedia: Iranian election protests.
One thing is clear from our figures. Google News is more than ever
a great place to go if you want a variety of views on news events.
You can see all Newsknife's ratings in depth in the Newsknife Members'
Area. Click now at the left of this page to join.
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
December:
395 blogs and their 2759 blog headlines found at Google News:
1 Huffington Post (blog) 180
2 Washington Post (blog) 122
3 New York Times (blog) 124
4 Atlantic Online (blog) 86
5 New York Times 91
6 Wall Street Journal (blog) 76
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 53 sites are in the Newsknife
Members' Area.
December only:
1 6 1 BBC News, UK
2 5 1 FOX News
3 4 0 Reuters
4 2 3 ABC News
5 2 0 Los
Angeles Times
6 1 2 Washington Post
Year 2009:
1 41 29 Reuters
2 34 42 The Associated Press
3 20 21 Bloomberg
4 11 17 CNN
5 11 15 ABC News
6 15 7 BBC News, UK
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 48 and 136 sites
are in the Newsknife Members' Area.
December only:
1 27 Wall
Street Journal
2 25 New York Times
3 21 The Associated Press
4 18 Reuters
5 14 BBC News, UK
6 14 Times Online, UK
Year 2009 :
1 371 The Associated Press
2 280 New York Times
3 262 Reuters
4 159 CNN
5 145 Washington Post
6 140 Wall Street Journal, NY
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 21 times on the home page
of Google News as the first source for a news item through to 10
times as the 7th source. The full list of 339 and 1238 sites are
in the Newsknife Members' Area.
December only:
1 The Associated Press
21 63 24 16 9 8 10
2 Al-Jazeera, Qatar
6 99 1 5 4 7 6
3 New York Times
25 9 23 15 10 12 13
4 Wall
Street Journal
5 Reuters
6 BBC
News, UK
Year 2009:
1 The Associated Press
371 678 385 299 252 160 139
2 Al-Jazeera, Qatar
18 995 31 48 45 48 51
3 New York Times
280 106 161 141 124 110 75
4 Reuters
5 Washington
Post
6 BBC
News, UK
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 New York Times 9 times as the first source there through
to 11 times as the 6th source. In total we found them 231 times
on master subpages. The full list of 605 sites is in the Newsknife
Members' Area.
December only:
1 New York Times
9 15 7 9 10 11 231
2 The Associated Press
14 12 23 9 9 2 221
3 Wall Street Journal, NY
18 9 6 6 5 10 168
4 Washington
Post
5 Reuters
6 Wikipedia
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.
December only:
1 The Associated Press 940
2 New York Times 737
3 Wall Street Journal, NY 513
4 Reuters 499
5 AFP 520
6 Xinhua, China 532
Year 2009:
1 The Associated Press 15793
2 Reuters 8496
3 New York Times 7154
4 Washington Post 6503
5 AFP 6746
6 BBC News, UK 5814
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 163 sites is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
Dec: % HOME TOTAL
1 33.16 128 386 Al-Jazeera
2 31.31 31 99 CNN International
3 24.00 6 25 Bizjournals.com
4 23.08 3 13 Honolulu Advertiser
5 23.08 12 52 Hindu
6 22.93 61 266 Voice of America
% increase on Google News home page
Column 1 shows appearances that Newsknife found on Google News
home page year to date pre-December. Column 2 is appearances found
during December. Column 3 is the % increase for December. The full list
is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
Year thru
Nov DEC %
14 7 50 RTT News, NY
26 11 42 Ynet, Israel
27 11 41 Ha'aretz
35 13 37 BusinessWeek
44 11 25 Houston Chronicle, TX
40 10 25 Times of India, India
New sites found last month
Newsknife noted 201 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.)
December:
1 0 20 Brunei
News fm
2 2 7 Hawaii News Now
3 0 8 Sphere
4 0 6 SAMAA TV
5 1 5 CultureMap
6 0 5 Before It's News
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