Top 30 news sites see growth

By Reynolds Staff on Jan 20, 2009 in Basics, Uncategorized

Nielsen Online has released December numbers for the top 30 news sites worldwide as visited by U.S. audiences. Editor & Publisher reports that most news outlets represented saw healthy growth:

The number of unique visitors to the Huff Post grew 244% to 6.1 million in December compared to the same month a year ago… Uniques at Fox News advanced 60% to 13.7 million year-over-year. The New York Daily News: Up 99% to 5.8 million. The monthly unique audience rose 55% to 4.5 million at The New York Post.

Topping the list again was the MSNBC Digital Network, which saw its year-over-year audience grow 40 percent to 40.4 million.
In fact, the top seven organizations remained the same. Google News was the first to slip; it fell from eighth place with 14.4 million in November to 12th place with 10.7 million in December.
The highest-ranking foreign news outlet was the BBC, which stayed in 15th place, rising 11 percent year-over-year to 8.3 million unique visitors.

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