The Newspaper Association of America has published recent statistics (gathered by Nielsen Online) on visitors to news sites.

Yahoo! News is still in the pole position as far as unique audience (over 35 million uniques every month), with AOL News and CNN also ranking quite high.  Google News is also a notable player in the space (over 11 million unique visitors each month).

By getting our customer’s news releases to the portals like Google and Yahoo!, we help them gain access to the nearly 50 million unique visitors that frequent these online spaces each month.