In the Feb. 17 issue, we offered you the Top 10 Web sites PR
pros are searching in MediaMap's database. Media relations pros
tended to be searching for technology sites, likely because of the
paucity of tech media in today's marketplace.
But when it comes to mainstream news, the list is different. We
asked PRtrak and comScore (which maintains a database of 1.5
million Web users) to share with us the top newspaper sites
consumers use when they need the news.
The following chart includes number of unique visitors per month
as well as a ranking among the 10,000 Web sites PRtrak currently
monitors.
|
Site
|
Unique Visitors (000s) Total
US* January 2003 |
Ranking among all Web
sites |
| Nytimes.com |
6,734
|
65
|
| Usatoday.com |
4,612
|
148
|
| Washingtonpost.com |
3,559
|
199
|
| Latimes.com |
1,905
|
414
|
| Boston.com |
1,702
|
490
|
| Nwsource.com |
1,448
|
600
|
| Sfgate.com |
1,390
|
630
|
| Suntimes.com |
1,377
|
637
|
| Chron.com (Houston) |
1,333
|
666
|
| Newsday.com |
1,152
|
794
|
| *Indicates the number of Internet users who visited the site at least once during the specified time period. Includes U.S. home, work and college/university users. |
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Clarification: David Berlind, editorial director at ZDNet, was
incorrectly referenced as David Berland in the Feb. 17 installment
of Media Metrics. PR NEWS apologizes for the misspelling.
For more on Berlind and the ZDNet team, see Media Insight.