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Newsknife ratings @ March 1


Posted March 3, 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 48,663 listings by 3599 sites for 531 news items during 2010.

Featured rating:
Afghanistan coverage
Jan\Feb 2010

Afghanistan is a major news story of the moment. Newsknife has found 2953 headlines from 494 news sites at Google News during January and February 2010. 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 Afghanistan:

33 top Afghanistan headlines in date order. We found these at Google News as the first source for their particular Afghanistan news items.

Here are the top 12 sites we found as the first source for an Afghanistan-related story. For example, we found Wall Street Journal 7 times as the first source...
1   Wall Street Journal   7
2   New York Times   5
3   Times Online   5
4   Voice of America   3
5   BBC News   2
6   Washington Post   2
7   ABC News   1
8   ABC Online   1
9   Aljazeera.net   1
10   CBS News   1
11   Christian Science Monitor   1
12   Daily Times   1

Here are the top 12 of the 494 sites we found as sources for Afghanistan stories, on the Google News home page and up to 10 sub-pages deep. For example, we found 107 BBC headlines about Afghanistan...
1   BBC News   107
2   AFP   101
3   Times Online   80
4   Telegraph.co.uk   82
5   The Guardian   70
6   New York Times   63
7   Wall Street Journal   55
8   The Associated Press   72
9   Voice of America   54
10   Reuters   53
11   Financial Times   53
12   The Hindu   46

You can see all Newsknife's ratings in depth in the Newsknife Members' Area, including our list of 494 news sites ranked for, and showing, their Afghanistan-related 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

February:
375 blogs and their 3341 blog headlines found at Google News:
      1 Huffington Post (blog)    325
      2 CBS News (blog)    143
      3 FOXNews (blog)    139
      4 New York Times (blog)    139
      5 Washington Post (blog)    138
      6 The Hill (blog)    117

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 23 and 31 sites are in the Newsknife Members' Area.

February only:
      1      3        5  Wall Street Journal, NY
      2      2        2  ABC News
      3      3        0  FOX News
      4      1        3  USA Today
      5      2        1  Times Online, UK
      6      2        0  CBS News

Year to March :
      1      6        8  Wall Street Journal, NY
      2      6        4  FOX News
      3      5        4  Washington Post
      4      2        6  Reuters
      5      2        5  ABC News
      6      3        2  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 lists of 51 and 68 sites are in the Newsknife Members' Area.

February only:
      1    24  Wall Street Journal
      2    19  New York Times
      3    17  Reuters
      4    13  Times Online, UK
      5    12  Los Angeles Times
      6    11  CNN

Year to March :
      1    48  Reuters
      2    47  Wall Street Journal
      3    45  Washington Post
      4    41  New York Times
      5    31  FOX News
      6    28  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 4 times as the 7th source. The full lists of 288 and 496 sites are in the Newsknife Members' Area.

February only:
      1  Al-Jazeera, Qatar
            4  69    3    2    3    3    4
      2  Reuters
          17    9  15  23    7    7    9
      3  New York Times
          19  10  10  20  10    7    4
      4  Washington Post
      5  Wall Street Journal, NY
      6  Los Angeles Times, CA

Year to March :
      1  Al-Jazeera, Qatar
            8  174    7    8  11    8  10
      2  Reuters
          48  19  29  35  18  14  21
      3  Washington Post
          45  25  33  18  22  20  20
      4  New York Times
      5  Wall Street Journal, NY
      6  The Associated Press

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 13 times as the first source there through to 2 times as the 6th source. In total we found them 266 times on master subpages. The full list of 565 sites is in the Newsknife Members' Area.

February only:
      1  Washington Post
          13  10  11    5    6    2     266
      2  Wall Street Journal, NY
          13  12  14  11    5  10     190
      3  New York Times
            8    9    7    7  12  10     223
      4  Reuters
      5  Huffington Post, NY
      6  Los Angeles Times, CA

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.

February only:
1 Washington Post  687
2 New York Times  600
3 Reuters  559
4 Wall Street Journal  502
5 AFP  480
6 Los Angeles Times  401

Year to March :
1 Washington Post  1484
2 New York Times  1176
3 Reuters  1102
4 Wall Street Journal  983
5 AFP  917
6 BBC News, UK  765

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 149 sites is in the Newsknife Members' Area.

Feb:  %     HOME  TOTAL
    1    26.59    88   331  Al-Jazeera
    2    25.00      3     12  Boston Channel.com
    3    23.53      4     17  WNYC
    4    23.53      4     17  Bizjournals.com
    5    23.08      6     26  Houston Chronicle
    6    21.43      3     14  Buffalo News

% increase on Google News home page

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

Year thru
Jan    FEB  %
  12    20  167  Miami Herald, FL
  16    20  125  New York Daily News
  12    15  125  MSNBC
  31    35  113  BusinessWeek
  52    57  110  Christian Science Monitor
  29    31  107  Xinhua, China

New sites found last month

Newsknife noted 155 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.)

February:
      1      5     83  AOL News
      2      0     26  Ukrainian News Agency
      3      0     17  NY Breaking News.com
      4      0     13  Arirang News
      5      0       9  Capitol News Connection (blog)
      6      0       9  Breaking Global News

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