By: Eight of the top 20 news Web sites in the U.S. are affiliated with newspapers, according to the latest statistics from Nielsen/NetRatings.
For the month of April, the top news sites in terms of audience were CNN.com, MSNBC.com, and Yahoo! News. NYTimes.com was No. 4 while Gannett Newspapers' combined Web sites ranked at No. 6, followed by washingtonpost.com in seventh place.
The rankings of current events and news sites was based on a panel of 60,000-plus Americans accessing the Web at work and at home.
A number of newspaper-affiliated sites also showed up in the top 20 directories/local guides as ranked by Nielsen/NetRatings. In that list, the top three sites were CitySearch/Ticketmaster Online, Superpages.com, and Yahoo! Yellow Pages. Knight Ridder Digital's Real Cities network came in at No. 9; the E.W. Scripps chain at No. 13; boston.com, No. 15; NWsource.com, No. 16;
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, No. 17; and nj.com, No. 18.
Top 20 Current Events & Global News Sites
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|
Unique Audience |
Time Per Person |
Brand or Channel |
(000) |
(hh:mm:ss) |
|
CNN General News |
15,300 |
0:21:12 |
MSNBC |
14,845 |
0:25:02 |
Yahoo! News |
12,455 |
0:21:54 |
The New York Times |
7,569 |
0:31:54 |
ABC News |
7,281 |
0:12:22 |
Gannett Newspapers |
5,995 |
0:15:15 |
washingtonpost.com |
5,415 |
0:23:02 |
Time Magazine |
3,472 |
0:05:04 |
Fox News |
2,988 |
0:28:56 |
MSN Slate |
2,976 |
0:14:34 |
Netscape News |
2,795 |
0:13:58 |
Belo Newspapers |
2,199 |
0:07:22 |
Cox Newspapers |
2,159 |
0:14:44 |
CBS News |
2,076 |
0:06:25 |
SF Gate |
1,857 |
0:09:41 |
New York Post |
1,811 |
0:12:25 |
iWon News |
1,733 |
0:32:49 |
Reuters |
1,497 |
0:05:17 |
USA Today News |
1,486 |
0:11:53 |
drudgereport.com |
1,485 |
0:59:31 |
Source: Nielsen/NetRatings. Data based on audience measurement of more than 60,000 U.S. panelists with home and work Net access. |
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