Here are the 15 Most Popular News Sites as derived from our eBizMBA Rank which is an average of each website’s Alexa Global Traffic Rank, and U.S. Traffic Rank from both Compete and Quantcast. “*#*” Denotes an estimated Quantcast rank for websites yet to be Quantified.

1 | Yahoo! News
30 – eBizMBA Rank | 70,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | *29* – Compete Rank | *30* – Quantcast Rank | N/A – Alexa Rank.
Most Popular News Websites | Updated 12/01/2010 | eBizMBA

2 | CNN
44 – eBizMBA Rank | 48,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 35 – Compete Rank | 40 – Quantcast Rank | 58 – Alexa Rank.
Most Popular News Websites | Updated 12/01/2010 | eBizMBA

3 | MSNBC
45 – eBizMBA Rank | 47,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 40 – Compete Rank | *50* – Quantcast Rank | N/A – Alexa Rank.
Most Popular News Websites | Updated 12/01/2010 | eBizMBA

4 | Google News
51 – eBizMBA Rank | 46,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | *60* – Compete Rank | *42* – Quantcast Rank | N/A – Alexa Rank.
Most Popular News Websites | Updated 12/01/2010 | eBizMBA

5 | New York Times
67 – eBizMBA Rank | 38,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 54 – Compete Rank | 54 – Quantcast Rank | 93 – Alexa Rank.
Most Popular News Websites | Updated 12/01/2010 | eBizMBA

6 | HuffingtonPost
98 – eBizMBA Rank | 28,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 99 – Compete Rank | 37 – Quantcast Rank | 158 – Alexa Rank.
Most Popular News Websites | Updated 12/01/2010 | eBizMBA

7 | digg
102 – eBizMBA Rank | 27,500,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 134 – Compete Rank | 61 – Quantcast Rank | 112 – Alexa Rank.
Most Popular News Websites | Updated 12/01/2010 | eBizMBA

8 | Fox News
148 – eBizMBA Rank | 24,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 108 – Compete Rank | *150* – Quantcast Rank | 185 – Alexa Rank.
Most Popular News Websites | Updated 12/01/2010 | eBizMBA

9 | Washington Post
200 – eBizMBA Rank | 22,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 126 – Compete Rank | 140 – Quantcast Rank | 334 – Alexa Rank.
Most Popular News Websites | Updated 12/01/2010 | eBizMBA

10 | LATimes
201 – eBizMBA Rank | 21,900,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 132 – Compete Rank | 97 – Quantcast Rank | 374 – Alexa Rank.
Most Popular News Websites | Updated 12/01/2010 | eBizMBA

11 | Reuters
210 – eBizMBA Rank | 21,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 272 – Compete Rank | 81 – Quantcast Rank | 278 – Alexa Rank.
Most Popular News Websites | Updated 12/01/2010 | eBizMBA

12 | ABCNews
220 – eBizMBA Rank | 20,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | *103* – Compete Rank | *110* – Quantcast Rank | 446 – Alexa Rank.
Most Popular News Websites | Updated 12/01/2010 | eBizMBA

13 | USA Today
241 – eBizMBA Rank | 19,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 63 – Compete Rank | 237 – Quantcast Rank | 422 – Alexa Rank.
Most Popular News Websites | Updated 12/01/2010 | eBizMBA

14 | BBC News
250 – eBizMBA Rank | 18,500,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | *400* – Compete Rank | *305* – Quantcast Rank | 46 – Alexa Rank.
Most Popular News Websites | Updated 12/01/2010 | eBizMBA

15 | Drudge Report
377 – eBizMBA Rank | 14,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 616 – Compete Rank | 71 – Quantcast Rank | 444 – Alexa Rank.
Most Popular News Websites | Updated 12/01/2010 | eBizMBA

(Source: http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/news-websites)

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