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Posted February 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 23,243 listings by 2684 sites
for 288 news items during 2010.
Featured rating:
Haiti earthquake news coverage
Newsknife has found substantial Haiti earthquake disaster coverage
at Google News. During January we found 3639 headlines from 860
news sites. You can see all (and link to many of) these headlines
in a ranked list in the Newsknife Members'
Area. This is a valuable news resource.
Here are 3 highlights from our rating of news sites for their coverage
of Haiti:
28 top Haiti headlines in
date order. We found these at Google News as the first source
for their particular Haiti news items.
Here are the top 12 sites we found as the first source for a Haiti
story. For example, we found CNN International 4 times as the first
source...
1 CNN International 4
2 Wall Street Journal 4
3 Reuters 3
4 Voice of America 3
5 BBC News 2
6 New York Times 2
7 Times
Online 2
8 Washington
Post 2
9 ABC Online 1
10 AFP 1
11 FOXNews 1
12 Los Angeles
Times 1
Here are the top 12 of the 860 sites we found as sources for Haiti
stories, on the Google News home page and up to 10 sub-pages deep.
For example, we found 143 AFP headlines about Haiti...
1 AFP 143
2 BBC News 123
3 Voice of America 100
4 Reuters 91
5 Washington
Post 94
6 CNN International 92
7 Xinhua 127
8 New York Times 87
9 Wall Street Journal 70
10 Times
Online 80
11 Telegraph.co.uk 80
12 The Guardian 68
You can see all Newsknife's ratings in depth in the Newsknife Members'
Area, including our list of 860 news sites ranked for, and
showing, their Haiti headlines. Click now at the left of this page
to join.
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
January:
359 blogs and their 2765 blog headlines found at Google News:
1 Huffington Post (blog) 239
2 New York Times (blog) 160
3 CBS News (blog) 119
4 Washington Post (blog) 112
5 FOXNews (blog) 99
6 Politico (blog) 89
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 list of 19 sites are in the Newsknife Members'
Area.
January only:
1 5 3 Washington
Post
2 3 4 FOX
News
3 3 3 Wall
Street Journal, NY
4 2 4 Reuters
5 2 3 CNN
International
6 3 1 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 list of 50 sites are in the
Newsknife Members' Area.
January only:
1 34 Washington
Post
2 31 Reuters
3 23 Wall
Street Journal, NY
4 22 New
York Times
5 20 FOX
News
6 15 Times
Online, UK
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 Al-Jazeera 4 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 list of 354 sites are in the Newsknife Members'
Area.
January only:
1 Al-Jazeera, Qatar
4 105 4 6 8 5 6
2 Washington
Post
34 7 14 11 12 11 11
3 Reuters
31 10 14 12 11 7 12
4 Wall
Street Journal, NY
5 New
York Times
6 Voice
of America
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 19 times as the first source there through
to 8 times as the 6th source. In total we found them 289 times on
master subpages. The full list of 489 sites is in the Newsknife
Members' Area.
January only:
1 Washington
Post
19 10 10 10 12 8 289
2 New
York Times
6 10 5 5 7 3 176
3 Reuters
13 12 10 11 9 5 161
4 Wikipedia
69 0 0 0 0 0 69
5 Wall
Street Journal, NY
4 11 8 10 6 4 145
6 Huffington
Post, NY
0 0 0 0 0 10 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.
January only:
1 Washington Post 797
2 New York Times 576
3 Reuters 543
4 Wall Street Journal, NY 481
5 AFP 437
6 BBC News, UK 398
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 165 sites is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
Jan: % HOME TOTAL
1 71.01 49 69 The
Associated Press
2 36.80 138 375 Al-Jazeera
3 27.78 5 18 Hindu
4 25.75 77 299 Voice
of America
5 25.00 7 28 WNBC
6 25.00 3 12 myfoxny.com
New sites found last month
Newsknife noted 162 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.)
January:
1 0 26 The
Majlis (blog)
2 1 18 10
Connects
3 0 14 The
Central News Agency
4 1 8 United
Liberty
5 1 7 WUSF 89.7 News
6 0 8 Department
of Defense
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for news of the moment. The 3-month Newsknife Members'
Area membership lets you see the ratings for each site in amazing
detail.
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