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Posted February 6, 2008.
Newsknife rates news sites on relevance (how),
based on our analysis of the main US-oriented Google
News site.
Read more here about our current ratings. For just $US10 join the
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These ratings are based on our sample of 270,805 individual site
listings by 3976 sites for 2016 news items during 2007, and our
sample of 26,616 listings by 1778 sites for 185 news items during
2008.
Featured rating:
Newsknife rates the primaries coverage thru Super Tuesday
The Presidential Elections are a way off yet but the media coverage
of campaigning is full on.
This Newsknife rating is based on 143 campaign news items found
at Google News from October to just after Super Tuesday.
Newsknife has found far more political blogs than we've seen in
the past. For example...
blogs.forbes.com
embeds.blogs.foxnews.com
firstread.msnbc.msn.com
kristof.blogs.nytimes.com
campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com
blog.washingtonpost.com
Here are Newsknife's Top 10 campaign news sites from October to
just after Super Tuesday. It shows how often we found them as the
first-ranked source for campaign news items at Google News over
the period. Some are blog addresses.
1 New York
Times (incl. this blog address)
Found 28 times
2 Reuters 18
3 Washington Post 16
4 CNN 14
5 FOXNews (blog
address) 8
5 FOX News 4
6= ABC News 5
6= New York Daily News 5
8= Los Angeles Times
(incl. this blog address) 4
8= USA Today 4
8= Voice of America 4
Did you notice that Associated Press is missing? They came in 17th
for appearances we found as the No.1 source. They were 10th in the
overall volume we found on the Google News home page.
Here's a list
of 143 No.1 campaign headlines in date order found by Newsknife.
Plus, in the Newsknife Members' Area you can see a complete listing
of all 182 news sites
we found for campaign stories on the home page of Google
News, and 1000+ of their campaign headlines. You can click through
to most of the original stories.
What a great election coverage resource!
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 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 15 and 206 sites are in the Newsknife
Members' Area.
January only:
1 4 2 Reuters
2 3 1 Washington
Post
3 2 3 CNN
4 3 0 Los
Angeles Times, CA
5 2 0 CBS
News
6 2 0 USA
Today
All 2007:
1 25 21 Bloomberg
2 22 21 Forbes
3 18 25 Voice
of America
4 15 15 Christian Science Monitor
5 15 5 SFGate.com, CA
6 9 17 CNN
International
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 36 and 300 sites
are in the Newsknife Members' Area.
January only:
1 35 New
York Times
2 25 Reuters
3 16 Washington
Post
4 15 Voice
of America
5 11 CNN
6 11 FOX
News
All 2007:
1 198 New
York Times
2 113 Voice
of America
3 111 Reuters
4 86 Washington
Post
5 64 ABC
News
6 59 CNN
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 New York Post 14 times on the home page of
Google News as the first source for a news item, 8 times as the
second source, through to 2 times as the 7th source. The full lists
of 254 and 1159 sites are in the Newsknife Members' Area.
January only:
1 Reuters
25 22 17 13 10 3 4
2 New
York Times
35 16 8 6 6 5 1
3 Voice
of America
15 10 10 9 3 2 1
4 Washington
Post
16 10 5 6 5 8 2
5 Bloomberg
2 5 9 19 10 13 5
6 CNN
11 10 11 3 3 2 1
All 2007:
1 New
York Times
198 119 84 71 63 47 44
2 Voice
of America
113 81 73 59 57 37 35
3 Reuters
111 90 62 60 46 40 35
4 Washington
Post
5 Bloomberg
6 Los
Angeles Times
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.
January only:
1 The Associated Press 1139
2 Reuters 806
3 New York Times 632
4 BBC News, UK 549
5 Guardian Unlimited, UK 571
6 Washington Post 523
All 2007:
1 Guardian Unlimited, UK 10223
2 Forbes 5404
3 Houston Chronicle 4812
4 New York Times 4449
5 ABC News 3795
6 Reuters 3672
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 137 sites is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
Jan: % HOME TOTAL
1 25.00 25 100 Christian Science Monitor
2 23.08 3 13 Press-Enterprise
3 22.22 10 45 CNN/SI
4 17.65 3 17 Bizjournals.com
5 16.87 14 83 TIME
6 16.67 3 18 WKRN
New sites found last month
Newsknife noted 198 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.
January:
1 2 15 Media
General Washington Bureau
2 0 11 Conservative
Pulse, FL
3 0 9 RedOrbit, TX
4 0 5 Tech, UK
5 0 5 Israel
e News, Israel
6 0 4 McGill
Tribune, Canada
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for news of the moment. The 3-month Newsknife Members'
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