The New York Times Is the Website Journalists Link to Most, in 2.8% of News Articles

    The New York Times is linked from 85 of 2,987 news articles, more than any other website, ahead of ESPN and USA Today. Yet no source dominates: 73.3% of the websites journalists link to appear in just one article.

    News articles linking by website
    nytimes.com
    85
    espn.com
    64
    usatoday.com
    63
    reuters.com
    38
    apnews.com
    37
    sbnation.com
    34
    heavy.com
    32
    npr.org
    32
    cnn.com
    29
    thehill.com
    28
    nfl.com
    27
    variety.com
    25
    deadline.com
    25
    hollywoodreporter.com
    25
    si.com
    25

    Source: Suff Digital analysis of 2,987 news articles and the 2,970 websites they link to · Google News results, September 2026

    Share of links by type of website
    Company or commercial site
    44.6%
    News outlet
    38.9%
    Nonprofit or .org site
    9.3%
    Government site
    5.6%
    University
    1.6%

    Source: Suff Digital analysis of 2,987 news articles and the 2,970 websites they link to · Google News results, September 2026

    News articles linking by website
    whitehouse.gov
    16
    state.gov
    14
    weather.gov
    13
    noaa.gov
    12
    mozilla.org
    10
    congress.gov
    9
    prx.org
    9
    documentcloud.org
    9
    cornell.edu
    6
    marist.edu
    5

    Source: Suff Digital analysis of 2,987 news articles and the 2,970 websites they link to · Google News results, September 2026

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