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Top 30 News Websites

elizabeth@volumepr.com — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:16:00 GMT

What news web sites are worth their weight in public relations gold? Here's the list of the top 30 sites from Nielsen Online by way of editor and publisher.

From Nielsen Online by way of Editor & Publisher:

Brand or Channel — June ‘08 Unique Audience (000) — June ‘07 Unique Audience

1. MSNBC Digital Network — 37,644 — 27,434
2. Yahoo! News — 34,992 — 32,293
3. CNN Digital Network — 33,417 — 28,321
4. AOL News — 22,081 — 21,938
5. NYTimes.com — 17,650 — 12,535
6. Tribune Newspapers — 15,059 — 12,038
7. Gannett Newspapers and Newspaper Division — 12,405 — 12,279
8. ABCNEWS Digital Network — 11,556 — 10,852
9. Google News — 10,543 — 9,195
10. Fox News Digital Network — 10,471 — 8,192
11. McClatchy Newspaper Network — 9,849 — 7,708
12. USATODAY.com — 9,626 — 8,592
13. washingtonpost.com — 9,062 — 8,181
14. CBS News Digital Network — 8,561 — 8,682
15. WorldNow — 7,957 — 6,963
16. MediaNews Group Newspapers — 7,442 — 7,384
17. Hearst Newspapers Digital — 7,372 — 8,624
18. Advance Internet — 7,107 — 5,761
19. Slate — 6,751 — 3,302
20. IB Websites — 6,079 — 5,351
21. BBC News — 5,944 — 5,733
22. Topix — 5,914 — 5,765
23. Boston.com — 5,226 — 4,254
24. Cox Newspapers — 5,122 — 4,835
25. Gannett Broadcasting — 4,806 — 4,241
26. New York Post Holdings — 4,617 — 3,057
27. Guardian.co.uk — 4,405 — 2,455
28. NPR — 4,300 — 3,121
29. TheHuffingtonPost.com — 4,042 — 1,267
30. Daily News Online Edition — 3,803 — 1,821

Horizont Magazine

elizabeth@volumepr.com — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:08:00 GMT

VolumePR founder Elizabeth Robinson is featured in Horizont Magazine - the German equivalent to AdAge - in a controversial piece on the prolific misperceptions that could "Big Oil" in the United States. Check out the full story, now available on the VolumePR news page. An especially great read if your Deutsch is up to snuff!

Ed Foster, Rest In Peace

elizabeth@volumepr.com — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:58:00 GMT

We are saddened to hear of the death of long-time technology writer and consumer advocate Ed Foster, an InfoWorld fixture for more than 20 years and a terrific writer and reporter of the revolution in technology that we’ve seen during that time.

Ed ran The Gripe Line at Ziff Davis Enterprise, the blog dedicated to consumers who wanted their tech to run better. To view The Gripe Line, click here. He passed away of an apparent heart attack Saturday, July 26, at age 59.

Over the years he served as a writer, editor, columnist and resident much-loved smartest guy in the room while InfoWorld moved from magazine to online powerhouse, all the time covering in the tech industry. VolumePR has worked with the magazine and its writers since our inception and we know this is a blow to their entire newsroom.

His family has requested that in lieu of flowers or further commentary, mourners contribute to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

If nothing else, for Ed’s sake, check out the EFF – for folks like us at VolumePR, who care deeply about tech (because that’s where many of our clients live) and freedom of speech and the connection of online intellectual rights with our Constitutional civil rights (because we are communicators) – we take this opportunity to share this organization with our readers.

Bye, Ed.