Following a list of mainstream media websites that get maximum "link love" from bloggers. Or in other words, these 50 websites are the top sources of news for bloggers and thus are linked (or cited) most frequently from blogs.
With a few exceptions like BBC, Telegraph, Daily Mail & Guardian, most of the popular online media sites that tend to get most links from blogs are from North America.
Top 50 News Sources for Bloggers on the Web
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Rank 1-10
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Rank 11-20
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Rank 21-30
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Rank 31-40
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Rank 41-50
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| 1. The New York Times | 11. FOX News | 21. Slate | 31. Salon | 41. Science Daily |
| 2. Guardian UK | 12. The Boston Globe | 22. CBS News | 32. Chicago Tribune | 42. Market Watch |
| 3. The Wall Street Journal | 13. USA Today | 23. Google News (AP) | 33. Newsweek | 43. People |
| 4. The Washington Post | 14. Daily Mail | 24. Wired | 34. CNN Money | 44. Miami Herald |
| 5. CNN | 15. Time Magazine | 25. Financial Times . | 35. CBC | 45. The Seattle Times |
| 6. Telegraph UK | 16. BBC News | 26. PBS | 36. Yahoo! Finance | 46. Yahoo! Sports |
| 7. Yahoo! News | 17. National Public Radio – NPR | 27. NY Post | 37. The Economist | 47. The Dallas Morning News |
| 8. MSNBC | 18. NY Daily News | 28. San Francisco Examiner | 38. New York Magazine | 48. San Jose Mercury News |
| 9. The Los Angeles Times | 19. Forbes | 29. Business Week | 39. Philly.com | 49. Star Tribune |
| 10. Reuters | 20. San Francisco Chronicle | 30. The White House | 40. The Houston Chronicle |
This list, known as Technorati Attention Index, illustrates the strong influence of mainstream online media in the blogosphere. And the higher the number of incoming links to a news site in the past 30 days, the higher the rank of that site will be in the Attention index.
International Herald Tribune (iht.com) is not part of the list as it has merged with The New York Times website (nyt.com) but the biggest surprise here is the absence of Christian Science Monitor website which recently ceased their print edition and switched to a web-only format.
Associated Press (AP) is probably represented by Google News in the index since that’s where AP stories are currently hosted on the Internet.
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Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/most-popular-media-sites/8622/
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Reader Comments
Hi,
I guess you missed the number one on the list: YouTube
Best regards
Written by Cristian Eslava on 05.16.09
Not all but I interested to read Reuters, The New York Times & Google News . Except above I love to read business and finance news specially for Digital inspiration’s India Inc.
Written by Vinod Kumar on 05.16.09
Updated : Now no 1 sources for blogger is YouTube… check it in Techorati Attention Index
Written by Toni on 05.16.09
Thanks Amit for sharing such a great resource!
There are my some other good site too, like htp://www.techfuga.com, for news syndication.
Cheers!
Netwala
Written by Netwala on 05.17.09
This is way off! I have a Blog and almost never use any of these sites. I use Techcrunch, Techmeme, Social Media Today, Advertising Age, Engadget, Mashable, Wired, Red Herring…..
Methinks Technorati has some sort of deal with these “News” distributions websites…
Down with the dinosaur “News” sources, and up with Social Media ie Global Real Time Collaboration…
Written by Adrian Eden on 05.17.09
Adrian – Sure TechCrunch or Engadget have more incoming links but Technorati limited the above list to mainstream media websites only.
Written by Amit on 05.17.09
Hi Amit,
I think it´s not limited to mainstream media websites. The stats is about number of blogs linking to X site, different from number of backlinks.
Therefore Engadget may have more backlinks but from a minor number of blogs.
Still missing one in the Top 50, the list is showing just 49, missing the number 1: YouTube.
Best regards
Written by Cristian Eslava on 05.18.09