Handful of 'left leaning sources' dominate Google's 'Top Stories,' study finds

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Washington Times

A new study from the Computational Journalism Lab at Northwestern found that many of Google’s top hits for news searches came from just a handful of left-leaning sources.

Researchers Daniel Trielli and Nicholas Diakopoulos conducted their study by looking at the results of over 200 news-related questions every day in November 2017. They found 6,303 individual links to articles in the Top Stories Box, and counted an “article impression each time one of those links appears.”

Their data showed that 86% of Google’s Top Stories came from only 20 news sources. Just three dominated the coverage, with 23% of all impressions counted — CNN with 10.9%, The New York Times with 6.5% and The Washington Post with 5.6%.

Fox News, which was ranked fourth, only had 3%.

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Selective searches?