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Newsknife ratings @ August 1


Posted August 2, 2010
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 Newsknife Members' Area now and see full detailed lists. Click at left to join.

The following are from our sample of 116,004 listings by 5115 sites for 2342 news items during 2010.

Featured rating:
Top journalists in Google News sections worldwide

On their English language sites, Google News gives 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 now rating journalists based on this information. To do this we are monitoring the 22 regional versions of Google News shown at left.

This month in the Newsknife Members' Area we have ranked lists of thousands of journalists Newsknife has found in the individual topic sections of these 22 Google News sites.

For instance you can see a detailed ranked list of 226 journalists we found in the Health section of Google News Zimbabwe. (We ranked June Torbati top there.)

Or 415 journalists from the Entertainment section of Google News US. (We ranked Josh Wigler top there.)

For each journalist we show their last two Google News listings we found in that region section. You can usually link to the original news item.

Newsknife rates journalists on two factors: the ranked position of each of their listings for news items in the particular Google News regional sections when we visited, and the quantity of their listings we found there.

Here, for example, we show our top 6 of the 301 journalists that Newsknife has rated for appearances in Google News US Sci/Tech section. You can see all our regional section ratings right now in the Newsknife Members' Area.

We found 12 listings for Cecilia Kang, our top-ranked journalist for US Sci/Tech. For example, as shown here, we found her in two listings by Washington Post in Google News US Sci/Tech section on June 10 and 27. At the time we visited, these Washington Post items were ranked 16th and 25th by Google News amongst the listings for those particular stories.

Cecilia Kang   12
FBI reviews security breach affecting iPad users
      Site:Washington Post  Date:10 Jun  Rank:16
Facebook...announces revamped privacy settings
      Site:Washington Post  Date:27 May  Rank:25

Rob Pegoraro   10
Faster Forward: Google Voice now open...
      Site:Washington Post  Date:22 Jun  Rank:12
Faster Forward: Starbucks to begin...free Wi-Fi
      Site:Washington Post  Date:14 Jun  Rank:9

Gregg Keizer   9
States launch...probe of Google Wi-Fi snooping
      Site:Computerworld  Date:21 Jun  Rank:17
Customers rant about bungled iPhone 4 orders
      Site:Computerworld  Date:15 Jun  Rank:1

Tom Krazit   9
Connecticut heads...30-state Google Wi-Fi probe
      Site:CNET  Date:21 Jun  Rank:18
Google kills background images on home page
      Site:CNET  Date:10 Jun  Rank:11

Bonnie Cha   9
Reminder: Verizon Droid event June 23
      Site:CNET  Date:27 Jun  Rank:12
Best Buy taking preorders for Droid X
      Site:CNET (blog)  Date:27 Jun  Rank:13

See all Newsknife's ratings in depth in the Newsknife Members' Area. The membership fee is just $US10. 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

July:
323 blogs and their 1904 blog headlines found at Google News:
      1 Huffington Post (blog)    192
      2 Los Angeles Times (blog)    174
      3 New York Times (blog)    104
      4 Washington Post (blog)    102
      5 CNN (blog)    77
      6 Wall Street Journal (blog)    69

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 17 and 43 sites are in the Newsknife Members' Area.

July only:
      1      5        2  Reuters
      2      2        3  Washington Post
      3      2        2  guardian.co.uk, UK
      4      1        3  Los Angeles Times, CA
      5      1        2  New York Daily News, NY
      6      1        2  Bloomberg

Year to August :
      1    20      14  Reuters
      2    14      15  Washington Post
      3    11      10  Los Angeles Times, CA
      4      6      11  The Associated Press
      5      7        9  Christian Science Monitor
      6      6        8  guardian.co.uk, 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 101 and 144 sites are in the Newsknife Members' Area.

July only:
      1    71  Los Angeles Times, CA
      2    65  New York Times
      3    41  Wall Street Journal
      4    35  The Associated Press
      5    29  USA Today
      6    27  Reuters

Year to August :
      1  218  New York Times
      2  161  Los Angeles Times, CA
      3  160  Reuters
      4  147  Wall Street Journal
      5  131  Washington Post
      6  114  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 35 times on the home page of Google News as the first source for a news item through to 20 times as the 7th source. The full lists of 631 and 1215 sites are in the Newsknife Members' Area.

July only:
      1  The Associated Press
          35  122  60  42  55  30  20
      2  Los Angeles Times, CA
          71  20  21  24  18  13  17
      3  New York Times
          65  16  27  22  16  18  17
      4  Wall Street Journal
      5  Al-Jazeera, Qatar
      6  USA Today

Year to August :
      1  The Associated Press
          114  431  178  161  139  93  67
      2  Al-Jazeera, Qatar
          11  643  18  27  28  24  28
      3  New York Times
          218  64  119  94  80  58  59
      4  Reuters
      5  Wall Street Journal
      6  Washington Post

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 Los Angeles Times 33 times as the first source there through to 30 times as the 6th source. In total we found them 274 times on master subpages. The full list of 947 sites is in the Newsknife Members' Area.

July only:
      1  Los Angeles Times
          33  29  18  14  19  30     274
      2  Wall Street Journal
          30  27  23  32  15  19     227
      3  New York Times
          37  18  13  14  12  19     256
      4  The Associated Press
          18  37  30  21  31  10     151
      5  Washington Post
          14  13    7    6    8  10     236
      6  Wikipedia
          121    0    0    0    0    0     121

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.

July only:
1 The Associated Press  515
2 Los Angeles Times, CA  458
3 New York Times  437
4 Wall Street Journal  412
5 Washington Post  344
6 USA Today  255

Year to August :
1 The Associated Press  4254
2 Washington Post  3791
3 Reuters  3450
4 New York Times  3346
5 Wall Street Journal  3147
6 BBC News, UK  2455

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 134 sites is in the Newsknife Members' Area.

Jul:  %     HOME  TOTAL
    1    94.38  151   160  Al-Jazeera
    2    93.75    15     16  Rotoworld.com
    3    81.82      9     11  USANewsWeek.com
    4    80.00    12     15  Irish Times
    5    76.47    13     17  TheCelebrityCafe.com
    6    75.73    78   103  AFP

% increase on Google News home page

Column 1 shows appearances that Newsknife found on Google News home page year to date pre-July. Column 2 is appearances found during July. Column 3 is the % increase for July. The full list is in the Newsknife Members' Area.

Year thru
Jun    JUL  %
    7    50  714  PC World
    4    23  575  CNN/SI
    8    46  575  MTV
    7    35  500  CNET, CA
    8    32  400  People Magazine
  11    40  364  ESPN

New sites found last month

Newsknife noted 144 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.)

July:
      1      3       4  NetDugout
      2      0       6  MacDaddyNews.com (blog)
      3      2       3  In Utah This Week
      4      2       3  Execte News
      5      2       2  Crosscurrents from KALW News
      6      2       2  National Football Post

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