By: E&P Staff Half of the top 20 news Web sites or groups in the U.S. during October were affiliated with newspapers, according to audience statistics from Nielsen//NetRatings. Seven were affiliated with broadcasters and three were online-only operations.
The top sites in Nielsen//NetRatings' Current Events & Global News category were CNN, MSNBC, Yahoo! News, AOL News, and nytimes.com. One newcomer to the list: boston.com, which ranked at No. 20.
Gannett Newspapers (excluding usatoday.com), Knight Ridder Digital, and Tribune Newspapers were the largest newspaper chains on the list.
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 2,559,000 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
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| Unique Audience | Time Per Person |
| Brand or Channel | (000) | (hh:mm:ss) |
|
| CNN | 21,227 | 0:32:00 |
| MSNBC | 20,596 | 0:23:39 |
| Yahoo! News | 17,431 | 0:31:56 |
| AOL News | 15,499 | 0:43:04 |
| NYTimes.com | 9,056 | 0:33:56 |
| Gannett Newspapers | 8,620 | 0:16:33 |
| Knight Ridder Digital | 8,417 | 0:16:07 |
| Tribune Newspapers | 8,343 | 0:16:24 |
| ABCNews Digital | 7,710 | 0:18:10 |
| Internet Broadcasting Systems Inc. | 7,484 | 0:14:29 |
| USAToday.com | 6,162 | 0:16:32 |
| washingtonpost.com | 6,084 | 0:21:06 |
| FOX News | 5,054 | 0:31:36 |
| MSN Slate | 4,995 | 0:11:20 |
| Hearst Newspapers Digital | 4,547 | 0:16:20 |
| CBS News | 4,379 | 0:07:14 |
| BBC News | 3,804 | 0:07:45 |
| Advance Internet | 3,612 | 0:20:02 |
| McClatchy Newspapers | 3,535 | 0:21:14 |
| Boston.com | 3,391 | 0:22:38 |
| Source: Nielsen//NetRatings. Data based on audience measurement of more than 60,000 U.S. panelists with home and work Net access. October 2003 |
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