Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 00:30:40 -0700 (PDT)
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As we established the last time we went through this, Eric's
alleged Top 10 has no validity other than as something he "sampled" from
visits to his site. There is no methodology. We're really hearing a
promotional pitch aimed at the same people who made his Top 10. Here is
the Top 10 and beyond poll that was published in WIRED magazine in March,
based on more than 25,000 responses; it was published first in AR.
* * *
MEDIA
+
from Top 25
Online News Source Poll
11/14/95
popularity
free
FINAL POPULARITY RANKINGS OF ONLINE NEWSPAPERS
1. NandO: Raleigh News & Observer (Raleigh)
2. San Jose Mercury News (San Jose)
3. Digital Ink - Washington Post Interchange(Washington DC)
4. Wall Street Journal (New York)
5. The Telegraph (London)
6. Detroit News (Michigan)
7. Boston Globe (Boston)
8. Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Atlanta)
9. Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul)
10. THE AMERICAN REPORTER
11. Clarinet (newsgroup based)
12. Deseret News (Salt Lake)
13. New York Times TimesFax (New York City)
14. USA TODAY
15. Casper Star Tribune (Casper)
16. TimesLink via Prodigy
17. Norfolk Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk)
18. Chicago Tribune Online via America Online.
19. Indianapolis Star and Indianapolis News
20. Philadelphia Inquirer / Phila Daily News (Philadephia)
21. Houston Chronicle (Houston)
22. San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco)
23. Orange County Register (Orange
24. Lawrence Journal-World (Lawrence)
25. Observer & Eccentric Newspapers
26. Investors Daily
27. The Globe and Mail
28. Individual Inc
29. Home PC
30. Los Angeles Times Prodigy
31. Academe Today
32. @Home
33. Pathfinder
34. Editor and Publisher
35. www.warwick.ac.uk
36. CRAYON
37. Daily Northwestern
38. InfoSeek
39. New York Times on AOL
40. HotWired
41. Time Out (UK)
42. Inter@ctive Week
43. Irish Times (Dublin)
44. Tacoma News Tribune (Tacoma)
45. NewsLink
46. Observer Life magazine
47. CNN
48. K-State Collegian
49. VOA gopher site
50. Jerusalem Post
51. Arizona Daily Star (Tucson)
52. Liberation (Paris)
53. Metro Newspapers
54. Chicago Tribune (Chicago)
55. Akron Beacon Journal (Akron)
56. Time Daily
57. Kentucky Kernal
58. Saskatoon StarPhoenix
59. L.A. Times on Prodigy
60. Tampa Tribune (Tampa)
61. London Free Press (London
62. MIT The Tech
63. Digital Missourian
64. OC Register
65. Orlando Sentinel America Online
66. East County Online(San Diego)
67. Evansville Courier (Evansville)
68. Newsday Direct Prodigy
69. Capital Gazette (Annapolis)
70. On Wisconsin Milwaukee Journal Prodigy
-30-
* * *
Best,
Joe Shea
Editor-in-Chief
The American Reporter
joeshea@netcom.com
http://www.newshare.com/Reporter/today.html
On Tue, 27 Aug 1996, Eric K. Meyer wrote:
> For 16 months, NewsLink has been sampling readers' opinions
> about which online publications they visit most often. This isn't a
> popularity poll or a contest but rather an assessment of what people
> say they actually are reading.
>
> Because the results we report represent a weighted average of
> sentiments expressed over the most 12 months, typically there's been
> little change for month to month.
>
> This month, however, our regular update sees quite a reordering of
> the list.
>
> Among the notables departing are four pioneers -- HotWired, C|Net
> Online, Boston.Com and NandO.Net. And we see the arrival of four
> relatively new sites -- the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post,
> Jerusalem Post and Christian Science Monitor.
>
> Perhaps significantly, we note that as time has passed the
> percentage of newspapers vis-a-vis networks and magazines on the Top
> 10 list has been rising.
>
> The complete hyperlinked version is at
> http://www.newslink.org/hot.html.
>
> The unlinked list:
>
> 1. New York Times
> 2. Los Angeles Times
> 3. Washington Post
> 4. CNN Interactive
> 5. USA Today
> 6. Time
> 7. Jerusalem Post
> 8. Christian Science Monitor
> 9. Electronic Telegraph
> 10. Wall Street Journal
> ----------------------------------------------------
> N E W S L I N K
> Online news research, consulting and publishing
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Eric K, Meyer 3,700 media links & more
> meyer@newslink.org http://www.newslink.org
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> Write to report@newslink.org
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