Cable Web Sites Dominate Top 10 News Destinations in February

CNN closed in on MSNBC in the month of February as the two cable news destinations vie for the top of the 10 most visited current events and global news destination Web sites, according to Nielsen Online.

MSNBC had 45.1 million unique visitors, up 9.9% year-over-year and 22% compared to the previous month of January. CNN Digital Network had 44.1 million uniques in February up 22.8% in year-ago comparisons and 8.7% from January. CNN Digital was the top news destination in January. The data comes on the heels' of The Project For Excellence in Journalism's newly released State of the Media 2010 report that revealed people who read the top 20 news and information sites defined by Nielsen return more often, averaging five visits per month and 18 page views. The rest of the 179 sites on the list of 199 averaged 3.3 visits per person and 14 web page views.