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Posted April 1, 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 66,233 listings by 4005 sites
for 783 news items during 2010.
Featured rating:
Presidents Obama is winning the headlines battle
President Obama's health reform victory was the major political
story for March 2010. But it was one of many Obama news items, year
to date.
January through March, Newsknife found 104 top-placed headlines
at Google News with the word "Obama" in them. The President's
fortunes may have fluctuated, but his profile, judged by headline
quantity, has never flagged.
You can see all 104 headlines in the Newsknife Members'
Area, and link to most of the original stories. As shown
in this sample listing, we show the approximate New York time when
we found each headline. Washington Post topped our January-March
roll call with 15 top-placed "Obama" headlines.
1 Washington Post 15
7:00 p.m. Fri 19 Mar
Latinos press Obama to deliver immigration reform
2 Los Angeles Times 12
6:00 p.m. Sat 30 Jan
What Obama's speech means for policymakers
3 USA Today 11
6:00 p.m. Mon 22 Feb
Crist: No regrets about backing Obama stimulus
4= ABC News 8
7:00 p.m. Thu 18 Mar
Obama Backs Senators' Immigration Overhaul Outline
4= FOXNews 8
7:00 p.m. Sun 17 Jan
Obama Ties Passage of Health Insurance Bill to American 'Decency'
4= Reuters 8
7:00 p.m. Tue 23 Mar
Healthcare win may threaten rest of Obama agenda
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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
March:
237 blogs and their 1818 blog headlines found at Google News:
1 Huffington Post (blog) 198
2 Washington Post (blog) 163
3 New York Times (blog) 124
4 FOXNews (blog) 112
5 Politico (blog) 85
6 NPR (blog) 58
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 33 sites are in the Newsknife
Members' Area.
March only:
1 3 3 Wall Street Journal, NY
2 3 1 Christian Science Monitor
3 2 3 Los Angeles Times, CA
4 3 0 Reuters
5 2 2 ABC News
6 1 3 The Associated Press
Year to April :
1 9 11 Wall Street Journal, NY
2 7 6 FOX News
3 6 5 Washington Post
4 5 6 Reuters
5 4 7 ABC News
6 4 2 Voice of America
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 41 and 73 sites
are in the Newsknife Members' Area.
March only:
1 23 The Associated Press
2 22 New York Times
3 17 Los Angeles Times, CA
4 15 FOX News
5 15 Washington Post
6 14 Reuters
Year to April :
1 63 New York Times
2 62 Reuters
3 60 Washington Post
4 59 Wall Street Journal, NY
5 46 FOX News
6 41 Los Angeles Times, CA
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 23 times on the home page
of Google News as the first source for a news item through to 9
times as the 7th source. The full lists of 297 and 615 sites are
in the Newsknife Members' Area.
March only:
1 The Associated Press
23 55 28 25 13 12 9
2 Al-Jazeera, Qatar
1 84 3 4 3 3 6
3 New York Times
22 9 19 8 12 5 4
4 Reuters
5 Washington
Post
6 Wall
Street Journal
Year to April :
1 Al-Jazeera, Qatar
9 258 10 12 14 11 16
2 The Associated Press
28 123 31 29 22 18 14
3 Reuters
62 32 43 45 27 24 28
4 New
York Times
5 Washington
Post
6 Wall
Street Journal
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 Washington Post 9 times as the first source there through
to 14 times as the 6th source. In total we found them 299 times
on master subpages. The full list of 569 sites is in the Newsknife
Members' Area.
March only:
1 Washington Post
9 19 6 8 9 14 299
2 The Associated Press
13 27 21 21 17 6 326
3 New York Times
12 10 15 4 8 10 216
4 Huffington
Post
5 Reuters
6 Wall
Street Journal
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.
March only:
1 The Associated Press 898
2 Washington Post 653
3 New York Times 512
4 Reuters 456
5 Wall Street Journal, NY 457
6 FOX News 394
Year to April :
1 Washington Post 2137
2 New York Times 1688
3 Reuters 1558
4 Wall Street Journal, NY 1440
5 The Associated Press 1360
6 BBC News, UK 1157
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 138 sites is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
Mar: % HOME TOTAL
1 37.82 104 275 Al-Jazeera
2 35.71 5 14 Hindu
3 26.32 5 19 Bizjournals.com
4 25.00 4 16 Salt Lake Tribune
5 22.51 61 271 Voice of America
6 22.22 4 18 Bloomberg
% increase on Google News home page
Column 1 shows appearances that Newsknife found on Google News
home page year to date pre-March. Column 2 is appearances found
during March. Column 3 is the % increase for March. The full list
is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
Year thru
Feb MAR %
100 165 165 The Associated Press
20 24 120 CBS News
11 10 91 The Mercury News, CA
24 20 83 Ynet, Israel
32 25 78 Miami Herald, FL
33 25 76 Ha'aretz
New sites found last month
Newsknife noted 121 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.)
March:
1 1 12 Jornal.us News Agency
2 2 11 Sunshine State News
3 2 5 US Money Talk News
4 0 5 MSU GoRacers
5 0 4 Armenian Weekly
6 0 4 The Week Magazine
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