Nielsen Online has listed the top 50 US news sites for February 2008. Listed below are the top 12.

The New York Times, though still on the top five, has decreased visitors from 20.4 million unique visitors (Editor and Publisher's January compiling.) USATODAY.com has also lost visitors, compared to the 12.3 million in January.

Many top spots are still occupied by online portals such as Yahoo! News, AOL, and Google News.

Brand Uniques  (000)  Time Per Person (hh:mm:ss)
All Events & Global News 101,336 127:01

CNN Digital Network 37,181 0:40:11
Yahoo! News 35,274 0:23:10
MSNBC Digital Network 34,013 0:29:50
AOL News 21,119 0:36:14
NYTimes.com 18,975 0:33:29
Tribune Newspapers 14,716 0:10:09
Gannett Newspapers 13,998 0:21:28
ABCNEWS Digital Network 12,324 0:09:54
Google News 12,050 0:10:14
WorldNow 10,588 0:13:16
USATODAY.com 10,571 0:14:16
Washingtonpost.com 10,441 0:17:30

For the complete listing, click here.

Source: Journalism.co.uk