By: Jennifer Saba Clearly benefiting from the Olympics and the political conventions, MSNBC.com pulled way ahead of the competition -- that would be Yahoo News -- by roughly 12 million unique users in August. According to the latest data from Nielsen Online, MSNBC rose 77% to 52 million uniques in August compared to the same period a year ago. In July MSNBC had 37.5 million uniques.
Also benefiting no doubt from the presidential election: The Huffington Post. Unique audience there went up a staggering 291% to 5.1 million and it now ranks 28th overall of all news sites.
The NYTimes.com, which is the fifth most visited online current events news destination, advanced 52% in August to 19.8 million. Fox News Digital Network is up 64% to 13.9 million uniques in August.
The Daily News Online grew its unique audience in August 103% to 4.5 million. The Telegraph was up 96% to 4.5 million as well. The vast majority of sites showed gains.
Below is a list of the top 30 Online Current Events & Global News Destinations for August 2008 provided by Nielsen (owned by E&P's parent company). Please note that traffic can vary month to month based on several factors, including news events. The list is based on a U.S. home and work panel.
Brand -- Aug. '08 Unique Audience (000) -- Aug. '07 Unique Audience (000)MSNBC Digital Network -- 52,212 -- 29,564
Yahoo! News -- 40,787 -- 34,277
CNN Digital Network -- 38,821 -- 31,733
AOL News -- 23,114 -- 21,209
NYTimes.com -- 19,862 -- 13,078
Tribune Newspapers -- 17,652 -- 12,550
Gannett Newspapers and Newspaper Division -- 14,454 -- 13,720
Fox News Digital Network -- 13,902 -- 8,465
ABCNEWS Digital Network -- 13,377 -- 10,706
Google News -- 12,137 -- 10,235
washingtonpost.com -- 11,249 -- 8,995
McClatchy Newspaper Network -- 10,603 -- 9,071
USATODAY.com -- 10,403 -- 9,582
CBS News Digital Network -- 9,461 -- 9,783
Hearst Newspapers Digital -- 8,428 -- 7,195
WorldNow -- 8,030 -- 7,094
Advance Internet -- 7,929 -- 6,081
MediaNews Group Newspapers -- 7,485 -- 7,556
Topix -- 7,142 -- 6,153
IB Websites -- 5,753 -- 6,926
BBC News -- 5,278 -- 5,343
Gannett Broadcasting -- 5,172 -- 4,540
TheHuffingtonPost.com -- 5,126 -- 1,312
Slate -- 4,976 -- 5,803
Fox Television Stations -- 4,941 -- 4,490
Cox Newspapers -- 4,935 -- 5,020
MailOnline -- 4,832 -- 3,434
Associated Press -- 4,769 -- 5,201
Telegraph -- 4,587 -- 2,338
Daily News Online Edition -- 4,507 -- 2,216
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