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Posted February 1, 2005.
Newsknife rates news sites on relevance (how),
based on our analysis of Google
News.
The recent election in Iraq is a major world event. This Newsknife
Special Rating ranks the news sites that we believe have covered
it best to date.
If you want to follow the outcome of the election simply click
to our top-rated sites. Also see our top-ranked Middle Eastern news
sites (further down this page) for on-the-spot views.
Our main list of 68 news sites was produced by Newsknife from 2177
individual site listings for 14 major news items related to the
election in Iraq, at the main Google
News site between January 25 and February 1, 2005.
The sites were listed on the Google News home page as sources.
The New York Times is our No. 1 ranked site. The top 12 of the 68
sites are listed below.
Google News usually lists seven news sites per major news item
on their home page, all "sorted by relevance". We award
each site points per appearance on a sliding scale from first to
seventh position, and we total the points to get the ranking positions.
The layout shows how many times we found our first three sites
on the Google News home page in positions 1-7. For instance, we
found The New York Times listed once as the second most relevant
site for a news story on the election, twice as the third listed
story, once as fourth ranked and once as seventh source.
1 The
New York Times
0 1 2 1 0 0 1
2 Bloomberg
2 0 0 0 0 1 0
3 Voice
of America
0 1 1 0 1 0 1
4 CBC, Canada
5 Reuters, UK
6 The
Sunday Times, UK
7 World
Peace Herald, US
8 The
Washington Post
9 Guardian
Unlimited, UK
10 The
Kansas City Star, MO
11 Reuters
12 Wired
News
For the detailed list of all 68 sites click at left to join Newsknife’s
Members' Area.
Previous Iraq news rating
Compare the above with our July 2004 Top 12 ranked sites for coverage
of Iraq news.
1 Reuters
2 The New York Times
3 The Straits Times,
Singapore
4 The Independent, UK
5 The Washington Post
6 International Herald Tribune, France
7 Los Angeles Times, CA
8 Xinhua, China
9 The Kansas City Star, MO
10 Financial Times
11 Bloomberg
12 The Christian Science Monitor
Regional sites
This ranked list of sites broadly in the Iraq region was extracted
from our main list of 68 sites. It also shows the number of appearances
on the first sub-page of Google News listings. For example, Turkish
Press appeared 16 times on that page over our sample of 14 news
items.
Arabic News stands out as the first source used by Google News
for a news item about the violence accompanying the election.
1 Turkish
Press, Turkey
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 16
2 Gulf
Daily News, Bahrain
0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6
3 Al-Jazeera, Qatar
0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6
4 Arabic
News
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5=Arab
News, Saudi Arabia
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
5= Khaleej
Times, United Arab Emirates
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
7 Tehran
Times, Iran
0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
8= Daily
Star, Lebanon
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
8= Jerusalem
Post, Israel
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
10 Zaman, Turkey
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Remember, you can see the full list of 68 top ranked Iraq election
news sites right now if you click at left to join Newsknife’s Members'
Area.
The 3-month Newsknife membership also lets you see for each news
site, in amazing detail, Newsknife's overall relevance rankings
for the year to date.
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