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Week of Dec. 31, 1996, through Jan. 6, 1997
AJR NewsLink
 99256

Also see:

Story on this year's results.
Separate Top 10 list from scientific polling
Last year's results.
Notes on how vote was conducted

The year's Top 50 news sites
As chosen in voting by 32,803 NewsLink readers

  1. CNN Interactive
  2. Washington Post
  3. USA Today
  4. New York Times
  5. NandO Times
  6. Wall Street Journal
  7. Los Angeles Times
  8. San Jose Mercury News
  9. Jerusalem Post
  10. Washington Times
  11. ESPNet SportsZone
  12. Reuters NewMedia and My Yahoo
  13. The Times of London
  14. Detroit News
  15. The Telegraph of London
  16. Canadian Online Explorer
  17. TidBITS
  18. Sacramento Bee
  19. EduPage
  20. Honolulu Star Bulletin
  21. Christian Science Monitor
  22. Russia Today
  23. Las Vegas Sun
  24. Toronto Star
  25. MacInTouch
  1. C|Net Online
  2. Tampa Tribune
  3. MSNBC
  4. Detroit Free Press
  5. Pathfinder
  6. News Current
  7. Fort Worth Star-Telegram
  8. Kansas City Star
  9. ZDNet
  10. Environment News Network
  11. MacWorld
  12. Fox News
  13. Chicago Tribune
  14. New Jersey Online
  15. Star Tribune of Twin Cities
  16. Financial Times
  17. Philadelphia Online
  18. News.Com
  19. PointCast
  20. PoliticsNow
  21. HotWired
  22. Irish Times
  23. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  24. ClariNet e.news
  25. Tamnet

Results are reported from a month of balloting conducted at this URL using a ballot that included write-in positions. Because voters chose whether to participate, this was not a scientific survey but rather a straw poll. Still, steps were taken to prevent ballot-box stuffing. Voting software limited readers to one vote per e-mail address and one vote per hard-wired Internet connection.
Voters were asked to sample unfamiliar sites before voting. Links to all sites were included on the ballot. Ballot positions were given to news sites that finished in the Top 50 in last year's vote or in the Top 25 in ongoing scientific surveys. As voting progressed, ballot positions also were awarded to sites that received more than a handful of write-in votes from readers other than site staff members. Sites that received fewer than a handful of votes after the first two weeks were gradually eliminated from the ballot, which in total included more than 100 different sites.
Votes for a particular site from the site employes and from readers directed to the ballot from links on those sites were tabulated separately from other votes and were weighted less substantially than other votes.

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