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Posted June 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 88,262 listings by 4523 sites
for 1325 news items during 2010.
Featured rating:
previewing Newsknife's rating of top journalists
During 2009, on their English language sites, Google News started
giving the names of the journalists involved in many of the listed
news items. The one or two names per item are shown after the name
of the news site that published it.
Newsknife is developing a new rating of journalists based on this
information. This month in the Newsknife Members'
Area we have a ranked list of 1000 journalists gathered
from our monitoring. This is a preview, a small part of the journalist
ratings Newsknife will launch soon.
Newsknife's rating of journalists is influenced by three factors:
the ranked position of each of their listings at Google News, the
quantity of their listings, and how often their news items are repeated
across the Google News regional sites we monitor, (see the list
at left).
For example, if a journalist was named in a listing that was ranked
50th by Google News for a particular story, we would give him or
her one point. If they were named for a listing that Google News
ranked first for another story we would give them 50 points for
that.
If that listing was repeated on a dozen regional versions of Google
News it would provide a dozen chances for the journalist to earn
points towards their Newsknife ranking.
We believe that Newsknife's ratings give a guide to the ability
and specialised expertise of individual journalists.
To begin with, if a news site names a journalist it suggests they
are proud of this person's ability. If that person is named frequently
in listings that rank highly at Google News this suggestion of ability
is reinforced.
If the journalist ranks highly in a specific section of Google
News like "Business" it suggests that they are a particularly
good person to follow for news in that category.
The journalist names attributed by individual news sites are obviously
up to the sites themselves. Some names may be open to debate but
overall we have found them to be reasonable.
Here we show the top 12 of the 1000 journalist rating you will
find right now in the Newsknife Members' Area. We found Mu Xuequan
listed 914 times over 21 regional versions of Google News, (see
the full regional names at left), in sections like Top Stories and
World.
You can see that although we found David Lightman 322 times and
Elizabeth Benjamin 297 times, we ranked Elizabeth Benjamin
higher. This would have been because we had found her more often
named at news item listings that were ranked higher by Google News.
1 Mu
Xuequan 914
Regions: US,ID,IS,IR,SA,AU,NZ,UG,CE,SI,
BO,ET,GH,KE,NA,NI,TA,MA,UK,ZI,PA
Sections: Top
Stories, World, U.S.,
Middle East, Business, Sci/Tech,
Entertainment, More
Top Stories
2 Herb
Keinon 367
Regions: US,IS,SA,CE,BO,AU,ID,MA,NZ,
PA,SI,IR,NA,UK,ZI
Sections: World, Top
Stories, Middle East,
Israel, More Top
Stories
3 Elizabeth
Benjamin 297
Regions: US
Sections: Top
Stories, U.S.,
4 David
Lightman 322
Regions: US
Sections: Top
Stories, U.S.
5 Barak
Ravid 265
Regions: US,IS,SA,CE,BO,MA,PH,SI,IR,
NA,AU,ID,NZ,UK,ZI
Sections: World, Top
Stories, Business,
Middle East, Israel, Southeast
Asia,
More Top Stories,
6 Brian
Montopoli 293
7 Frank
James 227
8 Avi
Issacharoff 276
9 Mark
Memmott 213
10 David
M. Herszenhorn 277
11 Stephanie
Condon 277
12 Alister
Bull 218
Here are sample listings that we found:
(The dates are as at New York time)
Mu Xuequan
Date: May 30
Google News region: U.K.
Google News section: World
Google News rank: 12
News site: Xinhua
Headline: Iran
says US not yet ready for
nuclear
disarmament
David Lightman
Date: May 25
Google News region: U.S.
Google News section: U.S.
Google News rank: 11
News site: MiamiHerald.com
Headline: Obama,
Senate Republicans exchange
testy comments over lunch
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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
May:
246 blogs and their 1861 blog headlines found at Google News:
1 Washington Post (blog) 204
2 Huffington Post (blog) 184
3 New York Times (blog) 103
4 FOXNews (blog) 99
5 Wall Street Journal (blog) 69
6 CNN
(blog) 64
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 19 and 36 sites are in the Newsknife
Members' Area.
May only:
1 3 3 Reuters
2 4 1 FOX
News
3 3 1 Washington
Post
4 2 2 BBC
News, UK
5 2 1 MarketWatch
6 1 3 BusinessWeek
Year to June :
1 12 11 Reuters
2 10 10 Washington
Post
3 11 7 FOX
News
4 8 7 Los
Angeles Times, CA
5 7 4 BBC
News, UK
6 5 6 The
Associated Press
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 54 and 88 sites
are in the Newsknife Members' Area.
May only:
1 33 New
York Times
2 24 Reuters
3 23 The
Associated Press
4 20 Washington
Post
5 19 BBC
News, UK
6 16 Los
Angeles Times, CA
Year to June :
1 128 New
York Times
2 107 Reuters
3 99 Washington
Post
4 86 Wall
Street Journal
5 78 Los
Angeles Times, CA
6 69 FOX
News
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 12
times as the 7th source. The full lists of 303 and 838 sites are
in the Newsknife Members' Area.
May only:
1 The
Associated Press
23 80 31 31 20 14 12
2 Al-Jazeera, Qatar
1 91 4 4 4 1 2
3 Reuters
24 12 19 20 15 16 11
4 New
York Times
33 6 11 14 11 3 13
5 Wall
Street Journal
13 5 15 19 15 11 12
6 Washington
Post
20 6 10 4 13 11 15
Year to June :
1 The
Associated Press
63 257 90 83 64 51 41
2 Al-Jazeera, Qatar
10 437 14 23 21 18 20
3 Reuters
107 55 84 75 54 46 44
4 New
York Times
128 42 71 61 55 33 36
5 Washington
Post
99 53 70 42 54 52 51
6 Wall
Street Journal
86 37 71 49 65 46 43
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 6 times as the first source there through
to 15 times as the 6th source. In total we found them 323 times
on master subpages. The full list of 576 sites is in the Newsknife
Members' Area.
May only:
1 Washington
Post
6 12 15 4 8 15 323
2 The
Associated Press
15 26 22 18 22 6 383
3 Reuters
9 21 22 11 18 7 284
4 Wall
Street Journal
10 8 10 19 14 13 211
5 New
York Times
17 12 4 10 3 6 240
6 Wikipedia
90 0 0 0 0 0 90
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.
May only:
1 The Associated Press 1226
2 Reuters 944
3 Washington Post 711
4 Wall Street Journal 661
5 New York Times 619
6 BBC News, UK 574
Year to June :
1 Washington Post 2940
2 The Associated Press 2759
3 Reuters 2589
4 New York Times 2398
5 Wall Street Journal 2183
6 BBC News, UK 1810
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 126 sites is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
May: % HOME TOTAL
1 42.80 107 250 Al-Jazeera
2 26.09 6 23 Lexington
Herald Leader
3 23.81 5 21 Bloomberg
4 20.00 6 30 Vanity
Fair
5 20.00 18 90 ABC Online
6 19.23 60 312 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-May. Column 2 is appearances found during
May. Column 3 is the % increase for May. The full list is in the
Newsknife Members' Area.
Year thru
Apr MAY %
11 9 82 CNNMoney.com
22 16 73 MarketWatch
28 15 54 The
Hindu, India
16 8 50 SFGate.com, CA
141 71 50 BusinessWeek
32 16 50 Atlantic
Online
New sites found last month
Newsknife noted 193 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.)
May:
1 0 41 New
York News Today
2 0 28 News
Provider
3 0 17 MNDC
Breaking News
4 1 9 LANewsMonitor.com
5 1 8 Daily
Political
6 0 9 WireUpdate
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