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Posted December 15, 2011
Newsknife rates news sites and journalists (how)
based on our analysis of Google News. We monitor news sites on the
main US-oriented Google News
site and journalists on 22 English language Google News sites worldwide
(see list at left).
Read more here about our current ratings. For just $US10 join the
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Newsknife Top News Sites - 2011
See also...
Top journalists and top in categories
The following are from our sample of 202,143 listings by 3847 sites
for 8033 news items during 2011.
Newsknife's Top Site rating is based on the number of times we
found the particular site listed as the first source for a major
news item at Google News this year. For example we found Los Angeles
Times 622 times.
Top News Sites of 2011
1 622 Los Angeles Times
2 616 Reuters
3 504 New York Times
4 439 Wall Street Journal
5 417 USA Today
6 327 Washington Post
7 213 ABC News
8 197 Bloomberg
9 172 MSNBC
10 168 Christian Science Monitor
Newsknife has been rating news sites for 10 years. Over that time
we've found over 14,000
news sites at Google News. And the number keeps growing.
Google News continues to be a great destination for news quality
and diversity.
Compare our top sites for '04 through '10.
Top News Sites for 2010
1 411 New York Times
2 324 Los
Angeles Times
3 310 Wall Street Journal
4 296 Reuters
5 230 Washington Post
6 201 The Associated Press
7 177 USA Today
8 155 CNN
9 152 ABC News
10 138 BBC
News, UK
Top News Sites for 2009
1 350 Associated
Press
2 346* 121 Times
Online, UK
113 Wall Street Journal
112 FOX News
3 255 New
York Times
4 244 Reuters
5 150 CNN
6 139 Washington
Post
7 126 Los
Angeles Times
8 118 BBC
News, UK
9 111 Voice
of America
10 98 Bloomberg
*
combined rating for Murdoch properties
Top News Sites for 2008
1 296 New
York Times
2 271 Associated
Press
3 183 Reuters
4 Washington
Post
5 Voice
of America
6 CNN
7 Los
Angeles Times
8 Bloomberg
9 BBC
News, UK
10 Christian Science Monitor
11 ABC
News
12 FOX
News
Top News Sites for 2007
1 168 New
York Times
2 91 Voice
of America
3 87 Reuters
4 Washington
Post
5 ABC
News
6 Houston
Chronicle
7 Forbes
8 Times
Online, UK
9 Bloomberg
10 CNN
11 Los
Angeles Times
11 The
Associated Press
Top News Sites for 2006
1 201 ABC
News
2 166 New
York Times
3 164 Reuters
4 Washington
Post
5 Times
Online, UK
6 Forbes
7 Guardian
Unlimited, UK
8 Voice
of America
9 Christian Science Monitor
10 International
Herald Tribune, France
11 Bloomberg
12 CNN
Top News Sites for 2005
1 102 ABC
News
2 93 The
New York Times
3 86 Reuters
4 The
Washington Post
5 Guardian
Unlimited, UK
6 Voice
of America
7 SFGate.com, CA
8 Bloomberg
9 Times
Online, UK
10 International
Herald Tribune, France
11 CNN
12 The
Christian Science Monitor
Top News Sites for 2004
1 89 The
New York Times
2 71 Reuters
3 67 The
Washington Post
4 ABC
News
5 Xinhua, China
6 The
Christian Science Monitor
7 Voice
of America
8 CNN
9 Bloomberg
10 San
Francisco Chronicle, CA
11 Guardian
Unlimited, UK
12 International
Herald Tribune, France
Newsknife Top Journalists - 2011
The following are from our sample of 946,289
listings attributed to 69,722 journalists since late 2009.
Newsknife's journalist ratings are based on the ranked positions
and volume of listings attributed to each journalist we found.
Our Top Journalists for 2011 are those we gave the highest rating
to in the Top Stories category at each English language Google News
site during the period. For example, we found James Massola 139
times in the Top Stories category of Google News Australia.
In the Newsknife Members'
Area you can see the top 1000 journalists that Newsknife
found in region categories, for example sport in the U.K., entertainment
in the U.S. and health in Zimbabwe.
Here is a recent example from Google News Israel, showing the significant
detail we give for
each journalist.
Newsknife's Top journalists for 2011...
Australia: James Massola 139
Botswana: Bame Piet 52
Canada (English): Mark Kennedy 84
Ethiopia: William Davison 42
Ghana: Adwoa Gyasiwaa 25
India: Smita Gupta 56
Ireland: Harry McGee 110
Israel: Herb Keinon 114
Kenya: Bernard Momanyi 158
Malaysia: Charles Ramendran 41
Namibia: Denver Kisting 28
Nigeria: Yusuf Alli 113
New Zealand: Paul Harper 107
Pakistan: Syed Irfan Raza 70
Philippines: Christine O. Avendaño 186
South Africa: Charl Du Plessis 59
Singapore: Leong Wee Keat 73
Tanzania: Florence Mugarula 58
Uganda: Yasiin Mugerwa 94
U.K.: Andrew Grice 81
U.S.: Frank James 97
Zimbabwe: Kelvin Jakachira 92
Newsknife's Top journalists for 2010...
Australia James
Massola
Botswana Bame
Piet
Canada
(English) Bryn Weese
Ethiopia Barry
Malone
Ghana Kobina
Welsing
India Smita
Gupta
Ireland Harry
McGee
Israel Barak
Ravid
Kenya Anthony
Kagiri
Malaysia Charles
Ramendran
Namibia Barak
Ravid
Nigeria Bunmi
Awolusi
New
Zealand Derek Cheng
Pakistan Geo
Pakistan
Philippines Norman
Bordadora
South
Africa Sally Evans
Singapore Zul
Othman
Tanzania Florence
Mugarula
Uganda Cyprian
Musoke
U.K. David
Maddox
U.S. Frank
James
Zimbabwe Kelvin
Jakachira
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and journalists for news of the moment. The 3-month Newsknife Members'
Area membership lets you see the ratings for each site and
journalist in substantial detail.
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