The most influential business news organizations

Reuters ranks No. 3, The Wall Street Journal No. 4 and Bloomberg News No. 5 in a ranking of news organizations who have had their reporting cited the most in Google News and Google Blog searches in the past month, according to data compiled by  New York Times blogger and statistics-dicer extraordinaire Nate Silver.

Jeff Bercovici, commenting on the data, writes, “Scrolling through it, one thing that jumped out at me was how far along Bloomberg is towards its stated goal of being the world’s most influential news organization. Bloomberg comes in at No. 5, with 4.5 percent of all citations. While that puts it behind head to head competitors like Reuters (7.7 percent) and The Wall Street Journal (6.8 percent), consider that Bloomberg News has been around for 21 years. All the other organizations in the top five were founded in the 1800s.

“Compared with the others, Bloomberg is cited relatively infrequently in Google News, getting a disproportionate share of its mentions on blogs. Is there some reason other news organizations are reluctant to credit Bloomberg’s reporting?

“Forbes, in case you’re wondering, is No. 54, immediately behind CNBC, but well ahead of The Economist (No. 86), Businessweek (No. 121) and Fortune (No. 133).”

Read more here. The full list is here. Other business news media on the list include TechCrunch (No. 47), All Things D (No. 133), Apple Insider (No. 147), Mac Rumors (No. 149), VentureBeat (No. 167), and Investor’s Business Daily (No. 181)