By: E&P Staff Nine of the top 20 news Web sites or groups in the U.S. during January were affiliated with newspapers, according to audience statistics from Nielsen//NetRatings.
The top sites in Nielsen//NetRatings' Current Events & Global News category were CNN, MSNBC, Yahoo! News, AOL News, and Gannett Newspapers (excluding USAToday.com).
Three individual newspaper sites were in the top 20: NYTimes.com, USAToday.com and washingtonpost.com. Newspaper chains on the list were Gannett, Knight Ridder, Tribune, Hearst, Advance and McClatchy.
Nielsen//NetRatings classifies news Web sites according to the media companies' preferences; thus, some newspaper Web sites are counted individually in these rankings, while others are aggregated for a newspaper chainwide ranking.
The rankings of current events and news sites were based on a panel of 60,000-plus Americans accessing the Web at work and home.
One newspaper chain, E.W. Scripps, ranked in the top 20 of another Nielsen//NetRatings list -- the directories/local guides category. All of Scripps Newspapers' sites combined had 2.9 million unique users last month.
Nielsen//NetRatings is a joint service of VNU-owned Nielsen and NetRatings, which is majority-owned by VNU, the parent company of
E&P.
Top 20 Current Events & Global News Sites
|
| Unique Audience | Time Per Person |
| Brand or Channel | (000) | (hh:mm:ss) |
|
| CNN | 23,534 | 0:34:04 |
| MSNBC | 20,783 | 0:16:57 |
| Yahoo! News | 19,819 | 0:29:31 |
| AOL News | 16,734 | 0:40:07 |
| Gannett Newspapers | 11,546 | 0:13:34 |
| Knight Ridder Digital | 10,968 | 0:12:25 |
| Internet Broadcasting Systems Inc. | 10,784 | 0:15:09 |
| NYTimes.com | 10,097 | 0:45:56 |
| Tribune Newspapers | 8,624 | 0:13:54 |
| ABCNews Digital | 8,313 | 0:14:26 |
| Hearst Newspapers Digital | 6,330 | 0:13:40 |
| USAToday.com | 6,314 | 0:18:46 |
| Associated Press | 6,138 | 0:05:25 |
| FOX News | 5,383 | 0:32:38 |
| washingtonpost.com | 5,359 | 0:24:22 |
| WorldNow | 5,074 | 0:07:17 |
| CBS News | 4,729 | 0:07:43 |
| BBC News | 4,473 | 0:09:37 |
| Advance Internet | 4,220 | 0:17:17 |
| McClatchy Newspapers | 4,157 | 0:16:27 |
| Source: Nielsen//NetRatings. Data based on audience measurement of more than 60,000 U.S. panelists with home and work Net access. January 2004 |
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