Who's winning the business news war for online readers?

The blue line is visitors to CNBC.com in the past 12 months. Red is WSJ.com and green is BusinessWeek.com.

Go here and play around with other business news web sites. Forbes has many more visitors than these three examples.

Here is a chart showing Forbes.com, Marketwatch and TheStreet.com. Forbes is in blue, while Marketwatch is red and TheStreet.com is green.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.