About Pressrank.com

Pressrank.com is a scientific venture consolidating information across various news sources as a research tool. It is not designed to be a competitive service, rather its primary purpose is to serve as a free comparative service across mainstream media. Each page or "dashboard" displays the top ten stories from top sources for that particular topic as queried from dozens of feeds for each category. Primary users include:

• Media: Comparative tool to assess which sources are covering which stories
• Networks: See which sources covers an event first
• Academics: Research, media analysis, topic trending
• Libraries: Periodical management and research
• Archivists: Ability to do daily data capture across multiple sources
• News Junkies: Consume information from a central location
• Regular Users: Enjoys seeing diversified coverage on key topics