Bottom Line Up Front: The Spokesman Review is the top ranked news source for Spokane, Washington.

In the digital age the modern American has a lot of choice as to where they get their news. When it comes to local Spokane Washington news, there is no shortage of options. The next question being: what is a measure of trustworthiness for media, especially with artificial content? The answer is in the ranking metrics of Domain Rating (DR) /Domain Authority (DA). These two metrics are named differently but measure the same thing, what Google calls a website’s Expertise Authority and Trustworthiness (EAT). This article does all the heavy lifting for you as it explores the Domain Ratings of the top Spokane news organizations and ranks them accordingly. Proven scientifically, The Spokesman Review, is the highest rated, of any news agency in the Spokane area and is considered a leader in the industry. The Spokesman is #1 for both local print media and digital. Here is the list of news organization ranked by EAT.

2.    Krem2

3.    KXLY

4.    KHQ

5.    Spokane Journal

6.    Fox28spokane

7.     KSPS

 The rankings will be fetched from two separate sources: All from ahrefs.com and top 3 from Moz.com.

Domain Authority was created by the company Moz. According to Moz.com:

This score predicts how likely a website will be ranked higher in Google search results and is calculated by evaluating multiple factors including linking root domains plus the total number of links compiled into a score. The score could then be used to compare websites for ranking strength. According to Moz.com Generally speaking, sites with very large numbers of high-quality external links (such as wikipedia.com or google.com) are at the top end of the Domain Authority scale, whereas small businesses and websites with fewer inbound links may have much lower DA scores ” (2022)

Essentially DA = DR, because they are created by two different companies.

Here is how the Top 3 Spokane News websites compared in Moz.com

 In other words, it’s all about “backlinks” the real digital currency. A backlink is a simple hypertext link that when ‘clicked’, your web browser serves you that page. A backlink is vote in favor of the EAT of a webpage. It means the page has a low Spam Score and is considered a thought leader. People give backlinks to websites they consider useful to themselves or viewers. Certain backlinks are valued higher, and to some, treated like an asset class. The more quality backlinks a website receives, the higher the EAT. Comparable to analyzing financial statements of public companies, a website’s EAT can be inspected. Here is an example of a backlink to the winner: The Spokane Review         

All things considered, it really should be no surprise with their award-winning staff, beautiful website, and one of the longest running newspaper companies in the history of our country. The Spokesman has a fine reputation as a national pillar of truth in the digital information age and a local treasure that preserves the ancient craft of paper printing.