Please provide a resources that list of the most prestigious media
outlets in the world and include the criteria for which you used.  The
outlets can be newspapers, radio, television, broadband media, etc.

Hello,

Since there is no single definition of "prestigious," I have listed
many possible candidates based on several criteria:

Most-linked to online, c/o American Journalism Review
(http://newslink.org/toptypes.html):
1. Washington Post
  2. Los Angeles Times
  3. New York Times
  4. Miami Herald
  5. USA Today

The Wall Street Journal is the top business paper at No. 69 and no
doubt would be higher if it had more free content online.

Columbia Journalism Review 1999 "America's Best Newspapers," chosen by
American newspaper editors (http://www.cjr.org/year/99/6/best.asp):

1. New York Times
2. Washington Post
3. Wall Street Journal
4. Los Angeles Times
5. Dallas Morning News

Most 2002 Pulitzer Prizes
(http://www.telegram.com/extra/terror/html/pulitz4.html)

1. New York Times (7)
2t. Washington Post (2)
2t. Los Angeles Times (2)

Top circulation in U.S., 2001, c/o Detroit Free Press
(http://www.freep.com/jobspage/links/top100.htm):
1. USA Today
2. Wall Street Journal
3. New York Times
4. L.A. Times
5. Washington Post

Top circulation in world, 1998, c/o Infoplease.com
(http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0004422.html):
1. Yomiuri Shimbun (Japan)
2. Asahi Shimbun (Japan)
3. Sichuan Ribao (China)
4. Mainichi Shimbun (Japan)
5. Bild (Germany)

Yahoo.com Most Popular newspapers
(http://dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/Newspapers/):
1. USA Today
2. New York Times
3. L.A. Times
4. Washington Post
5. Christian Science Monitor

British Press Award for Newspaper of the Year
(http://www.britishpressawards.com/Roll.asp)
2001 Daily Mail
2000 The Sunday Telegraph
1999 The Guardian
1998 Daily Mail
1997 The Daily Telegraph

American Society of Magazine Editors 2002 National Magazine Awards for
General Excellence (http://asme.magazine.org/national_magazine_awards/past_winners.html):
(in alphabetical order
Entertainment Weekly
National Geographic Adventure
Newsweek
Print
Vibe
Radio & TV News Directors Associations 2002 Edward R. Murrow Awards
for Overall Excellence
(http://www.rtnda.org/asfi/awards/2002winners.shtml):
Radio: CBS Radio News
Television: NBC News
Local TV: WMAL-AM Washington
Small-market radio: WATD-FM Marshfield, Mass.
Large-market TV: KCNC Denver
Small-market TV: KKTV Colorado Springs

2002 Webby Award winner for best news site
(http://www.webbyawards.com/main/webby_awards/nominees.html#news)
BBC News
Other nominees:
AllAfrica.com
Arts & Letters Daily (People's Voice winner)
Debkafile
Poynter.org

2002 Webby Award winner for best print or 'zine site:
Salon.com
Other nominees:
Mr. Beller's Neighborhood
National Geographic Magazine
ONTHERAIL
The Smoking Gun (People's Voice winner)

King of Spain International Journalism Prizes, 2001
(http://www.efe.es/premios/)
Iberoamerican Prize: Andres Oppenheimer, various publications
Press Prize: Patricia Poleo Brito, El Nuevo Pais, Venezuela
Television Prize: Juan Gonzales Restrepo, TVE, Columbia
Radio Prize: Jose Gutierrez Vivo, InfoRed, Mexico
Photography Prize: Marcelo Sayao, O Globo, Brazil

Other prestigious media outlets (compiled by the researcher, a former
newspaper reporter):
Le Monde, Liberation (France)
The Times (UK)
ABC, El Pais (Spain)
Clarin, La Nacion (Argentina)
Frankfurter Allgemeine, Suddeutsche Zeitung (Germany)
Ha'aretz, Yediot Aharonot (Israel)
International Herald Tribune

Magazines: Time, The Economist, U.S. News & World Report
Wire services: Associated Press (U.S.), Reuters (UK), AFP (France)

I hope this has been of some help. Search strategy will follow.

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Clarification of Answer by mwalcoff-ga on 27 Jun 2002 16:35 PDT

Search strategy:

premios periódicos
<://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=premios+peri%F3dicos>

Latin American newspaper award
<://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=Latin+American+newspaper+award>

Monde newspaper prestigious
<://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=Monde+newspaper+prestigious>

Zeitung prestigious
<://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=Zeitung+prestigious>

Times Guardian Telegraph award
<://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=Times+Guardian+Telegraph+award>

awards European media
<://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=awards+European+media>

prestigious European media
<://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=prestigious+European+media>

international newspaper awards
<://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=international+newspaper+awards>

media awards
<://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=media+awards>

television news awards
://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=television+news+awards

world newspaper circulation
<://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=world+newspaper+circulation>

answer was very good.

I'm rather surprised you didn't list either of the following:
The BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/  or BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/

And that you didn't mention Al'Jazeera which is considered one of the
most prestigious media outlets for the Middle East
http://www.aljazeera.net/ which you will need a translation service
for which is available from
http://tarjim.ajeeb.com/ajeeb/default.asp?lang=1
That provides Arabic to English translation.

And of course there is always CNN http://www.cnn.com/

Additionally the questioner request Media Outlets; not just News Media
Outlets.

Generally this falls under the heading of Disney, AOL/Time Warner, and
whatever the other major media outlets are.  Including the Associated
Press for news. http://www.ap.org/


Ok, I have to go, I hope that helped some more.  If you didn't want
just news media outlets and still want more of an answer could you
please clarify what forms of media you are interested in?

Thanks to both of you for your comments.

And, to clarify, I actually was looking for news media outlets,
prestigious ones, around different regions of the world.  I purposely
kept the criteria vague because as you pointed out there did not
really seem to be uniform criteria.  Anyway, thanks for the list of
resources.  They complement and enhance what I have already.

Not to bicker, but I did list the BBC. It's under the Webby Awards. Al
Jazeera and CNN are both noteworthy in their large viewership and
influence, and many people would include them in a list. "Prestige,"
of course, is in the eye of the beholder, and I personally would not
call either prestigious in the same manner as The Wall Street Journal
or BBC.

mwalcoff-ga, I am not a newspaper reporter but a rather addicted
newspaper reader, and I beg to differ regarding Israeli prestigious
media: Ha'aretz is definitely *the* most respected and prestigious of
Israeli media. Yediot Aharonot is "merely" the most popular newspaper
in Israel, but I doubt that it would qualify as prestigious. (Same
goes for USA Today, IMHO) The mere occassional mention of a newspaper
by foreign media does not grant automatic prestige.
-dannidin-ga

I'm inclined to agree: prestige and popularity are not only very
different things, they often work against each other. I think the BBC
undoubtedly used to be the most prestigious media outlet in the world,
but that it has lost some of its cachet in recent years.

I'm surprised to see that no one has mentioned the New Yorker so far.
News media I think should include not only the New Yorker and the
Economist but also the likes of the New York Review of  Books, the
London Review of Books and Foreign Affairs magazine, which are all
extremely prestigious.

Finally, I think that AP, Reuters, Bloomberg, Dow Jones and maybe to a
slightly lesser extent Agence France Presse are all very highly
respected. Newswires come about as close as is humanly possible to
truly objective journalism.

My I add to Danidin's comment, that in fact, in many cases popularity
and sales are "opposite" to the level of prestige. The Bild, mentioned
here as the only newspaper from Germany (and in fact, from the whole
of continental Europe except for Spain) is maybe one of the best-sold
newspaper in the world, but is a tabloid. The Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung (http://www.faz.net), on the other hand, that was not
mentioned here, is highly prestigious. Other recommended European
reading (in this point I must add that this list is *so*
Americanocentric - like there are no prestigious outside the US!):
(1) Germany - FAZ, Der Spiegel (Magazine - http://www.spiegel.de),
Sueddeutsche Zeitung (www.sueddeutsche.de), Tagesspiegel
(www.tagesspiegel.de/).
(2) France - La Monde. Maybe the most influencial newspaper in the
French language. www.lemonde.fr/ ; also La Figaro
http://www.lefigaro.fr/
(3) Britain - The Times (www.thetimes.co.uk); Guardian and Observer
(www.guardian.co.uk/);
(4) Italy - Corriere Della Serra www.corriere.it/ ; La Repubblica -
http://www.repubblica.it/
(5) Russia - http://english.pravda.ru - . also http://izvestia.ru  ;
http://www.kommersant.ru/

I would add papers from Latin America, the Middle East (how about
Al-Ahram? or Al-Hayat? - the ignorance about the Middle East and the
Arabic language is a problem to be dealt with, not to be ignored); and
Asia.

I hope that helps a little.

I guess this is the problem with a subjective question like this.
"Prestige" means different things to different people. I thought the
questioner might be interested in high-circulation publications of
lower "quality," like USA Today, as well as "quality" broadsheet
papers like the Frankfurter Allegemeine (which I actually did
mention).

Regarding newswires: Objectivity, like prestige, is always debatable.
Personally, I find Reuters' coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian
dispute far more pro-Palestinian than AP's.

Regarding magazines: If we're mentioning The New Yorker, we also must
mention The Atlantic Monthly, my favorite magazine. And if we're
mentioning The Atlantic Monthly, some people would say we should
mention Harper's (speaking of pro-Palestinian news sources). Then of
course you have magazines like National Review on the right and The
Nation on the left that are gospel to some people. And perhaps nothing
is more prestigious than the wide-circulation scientific journals like
Nature, Science, JAMA and NEJM.