2011 Top News Sites & Journalists

Newsknife is out with its 2011 ranking of top news sites and journalists based on an analysis of news items appearing on Google News. News site ratings were based on a review of 202,143 listings by 3847 news sites for 8033 news items during 2011.

This data is beneficial as stories that appear on Google News have the potential to reach large global audiences and drive huge website traffic.

Top News Sites of 2011

Rank   #Listed       Media
1       622              Los Angeles Times
2       616              Reuters
3       504              New York Times
4       439              Wall Street Journal
5       417              USA Today
6       327              Washington Post
7       213              ABC News
8       197              Bloomberg
9       172              MSNBC
10     168              Christian Science Monitor

You’ll notice only two sites are TV – ABC and MSNBC – though Bloomberg is a hybrid. Year over year changes are also interesting to note. In 2010, the New York Times was the top news site followed by the Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal. The Associated Press, CNN and ABC dropped off the 2011 top ten compared to last year.

Newsknife’s Top journalists for 2011

Country/Journalist                            #Listed
Australia:   James Massola                        139
Botswana:   Bame Piet                               52
Canada (English):   Mark Kennedy            84
Ethiopia:   William Davison                         42
Ghana:   Adwoa Gyasiwaa                         25
India:   Smita Gupta                                    56
Ireland:   Harry McGee                             110
Israel:   Herb Keinon                                  114
Kenya:   Bernard Momanyi                        158
Malaysia:   Charles Ramendran                 41
Namibia:   Denver Kisting                           28
Nigeria:   Yusuf Alli                                     113
New Zealand:   Paul Harper                       107
Pakistan:   Syed Irfan Raza                        70
Philippines:   Christine O. Avendaño        186
South Africa:   Charl Du Plessis                 59
Singapore:   Leong Wee Keat                    73
Tanzania:   Florence Mugarula                   58
Uganda:   Yasiin Mugerwa                         94
U.K.:   Andrew Grice                                  81
U.S.:   Frank James                                   97
Zimbabwe:   Kelvin Jakachira                    92

For top US journalists, NPR reporter and blogger Frank James had 97 listings. David Grice, political editor at The Independent led in the UK with 81 listings.