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Posted July 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 105,012 listings by 4836 sites
for 1595 news items during 2010.
Featured rating:
previewing Newsknife's new rating of journalists: this month US
& UK business
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. To do this we are monitoring the 21 regional versions
of Google News shown at left.
This month in the Newsknife
Members' Area we have ranked lists of 512 journalists we
found in the business section of Google News US and 281 we found
in the business section of Google News UK.
Newsknife's rating of these journalists is determined by two factors:
the ranked position of each of their listings in Google News US
and UK business sections and the quantity of their listings we found
there.
For example, if a journalist is named in a listing that was ranked
50th by Google News for a particular story, we give him or her one
point. If they are named in a listing that Google News ranked first
for another story we give them 50 points for that. We then rank
the journalists on their total points.
We believe that Newsknife's ratings give a guide to the ability
and specialized 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 our top 6 of the 793 journalists that Newsknife has
rated for appearances in Google News US & UK business sections.
You can see our full lists right now in the Newsknife
Members' Area. We show a sample listing for each journalist.
We found 6 listings for Chad Bray, our top-ranked journalist for
US business. For example, as shown here, we found him in a listing
by Wall Street Journal in Google News US business section on June
10*. At the time we visited, this Wall Street Journal item was ranked
1st by Google News amongst the listings for that particular story.
(* the dates that Newsknife shows are as at New York time.)
US Business:
1 Chad
Bray 6
NY
Adviser Starr Indicted On Fraud...
Site:Wall Street
Journal
Date:10 June Section:Business Rank:1
2 Mu
Xuequan 7
China's
yuan move signals end to crisis...
Site:Xinhua
Date:21 June Section:Business Rank:26
3 Tiernan
Ray 5
Greece
Rebuts Moody's Junk Talk
Site:Barron's
(blog)
Date:14 June Section:Business Rank:17
UK Business:
1 Paul
J Davies 15
Axa
exit will speed life sector shake-up
Site:Financial Times
Date:14 June Section:Business Rank:10
2 Martin
Flanagan 14
Good
news, but finance sector is still fragile
Site:Scotsman
Date:27 June Section:Business Rank:10
3 Kate
Burgess 11
Investors
sharpen knives for Pru chiefs
Site:Financial Times
Date:20 June Section:Business Rank:8
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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:
282 blogs and their 1778 blog headlines found at Google News:
1 Washington Post (blog) 159
2 Huffington Post (blog) 145
3 New York Times (blog) 91
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 22 and 43 sites are in the Newsknife
Members' Area.
June only:
1 3 1 Reuters
2 2 3 guardian.co.uk, UK
3 1 4 The
Associated Press
4 2 2 Washington
Post
5 2 1 ABC
News
6 2 0 BusinessWeek
Year to July :
1 15 12 Reuters
2 12 12 Washington
Post
3 10 7 Los
Angeles Times, CA
4 6 10 The
Associated Press
5 6 7 Christian Science Monitor
6 7 4 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 51 and 101 sites
are in the Newsknife Members' Area.
June only:
1 26 Reuters
2 25 New
York Times
3 20 Wall
Street Journal
4 16 The
Associated Press
5 14 Washington
Post
6 12 guardian.co.uk, UK
Year to July :
1 153 New
York Times
2 133 Reuters
3 113 Washington
Post
4 106 Wall
Street Journal
5 90 Los
Angeles Times, CA
6 79 The
Associated Press
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 16 times on the home page
of Google News as the first source for a news item through to 6
times as the 7th source. The full lists of 274 and 914 sites are
in the Newsknife Members' Area.
June only:
1 The
Associated Press
16 52 28 36 20 12 6
2 Reuters
26 13 17 17 11 7 4
3 Al-Jazeera, Qatar
1 68 4 1 4 2 5
4 New
York Times
5 Wall
Street Journal
6 Voice
of America
Year to July :
1 The
Associated Press
79 309 118 119 84 63 47
2 Al-Jazeera, Qatar
11 505 18 24 25 20 25
3 Reuters
133 68 101 92 65 53 48
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 Associated Press 6 times as the first source there through
to 7 times as the 6th source. In total we found them 303 times on
master subpages. The full list of 547 sites is in the Newsknife
Members' Area.
June only:
1 The
Associated Press
6 16 22 20 19 7 303
2 Washington
Post
5 10 6 6 7 7 229
3 Wall
Street Journal
12 13 14 11 6 6 212
4 Reuters
5 New
York Times
6 Wikipedia
Home page + 10 sub-pages sources
Click here for a larger
page format showing all the information...
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 980
2 Reuters 656
3 Wall Street Journal 552
4 New York Times 511
5 Washington Post 507
6 BBC News, UK 477
Year to July :
1 The Associated Press 3739
2 Washington Post 3447
3 Reuters 3245
4 New York Times 2909
5 Wall Street Journal 2735
6 BBC News, UK 2287
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 121 sites is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
Jun: % HOME TOTAL
1 39.72 85 214 Al-Jazeera
2 31.25 5 16 Detroit
News
3 27.27 3 11 AllAfrica.com
4 25.00 3 12 Seattle
Post Intelligencer
5 25.00 3 12 Findtut
6 25.00 4 16 CNNMoney.com
% 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 %
19 11 58 Newsweek
43 15 35 The
Hindu, India
24 8 33 SFGate.com, CA
220 72 33 AFP
37 11 30 Kansas
City Star, MO
194 54 28 CNN
New sites found last month
Newsknife noted 136 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 2 10 Damego
2 0 11 World
Report Now (blog)
3 2 9 Automated
Trader
4 0 11 U.S.
Chronicle
5 1 6 LiveStreetJournal
6 0 7 The
Slovak Spectator
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