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According to Editor & Publisher, several dailies in the Northeast have been discussing a content-sharing deal in place of their AP agreements. The deal will include the sharing of stories and photos.  

According to EP, the papers included in the deal are New York's Daily News, Newsday, The Buffalo News, the Times-Union, and the Star Ledger.  

The latest Nielsen Online data shows that newspaper sites experienced a year-on-year growth in unique users in August.

Politico.com surged by 156%, reaching 3.6 million uniques, and moved up from being No. 17 to No. 10 last month. The Washington Post's unique audience increased by 25% to 11.2 million, giving the site the No. 2 position.

Four news outlets experienced a decline in unique: Newsday (decreased by 2%), Atlanta Journal-Constitution (down by 29%), AZCentral.com (decreased by 28%), and Village Voice Media (declined by 27%).

The average time spent per person on nearly half of top 30 US newspaper websites in July 2008 has decreased year-on-year, according to Nielsen Online data.

The figure for the Houston Chronicle increased from 14 minutes to 25 minutes and from 12 minutes to 16 minutes for the San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate.com. Growth was also seen at NYTimes.com, USAToday.com and the Wall Street Journal website.

The average time spent per person at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution site dropped from 23 minutes to 10 minutes and from 18 minutes to 9 minutes at Boston.com.

From Editor and Publisher, here is a list of average time spent per person in July 2008 on newspaepr sites, ranked by the number of unique visitors per site:

Time per Person (mm:ss) July 2008 vs. July 2007

NYTimes.com -- 32:03 -- 27:21
USATODAY.com -- 16:17 -- 11:48
washingtonpost.com -- 14:31 -- 17:55
LA Times -- 07:39 -- 08:26
Wall Street Journal Online -- 18:28 -- 12:17

New York Post -- 08:13 -- 09:00
Boston.com -- 09:01 -- 18:37
SFGate.com/San Francisco Chronicle -- 16:04 -- 12:17
Daily News Online Edition -- 05:18 -- 05:04
Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- 09:55 -- 23:09

Ottaway Newspapers -- 03:34 -- 06:13
Chicago Tribune -- 08:11 -- 15:55
Newsday -- 03:29 -- 03:30
International Herald Tribune -- 02:39 -- 01:48
Chicago Sun-Times -- 07:04 -- 06:32

The Houston Chronicle -- 25:21 -- 14:20
Politico -- 06:56 -- 06:14
DallasNews.com - The Dallas Morning News -- 04:50 -- 03:29
NJ.com -- 06:09 -- 08:21
Village Voice Media -- 04:58 -- 04:45

Philly.com -- 05:27 -- 06:58
The San Diego Union-Tribune -- 05:33 -- 04:44
MercuryNews.com -- 03:49 -- 04:32
Seattle Post-Intelligencer -- 14:48 -- 13:02
Baltimore Sun -- 09:43 -- 10:20

Star Tribune -- 36:39 -- 22:36
Kentucky.com -- 02:02 -- NA
Boston Herald -- 05:35 -- 05:15
The Detroit News -- 09:35 -- 14:09
OregonLive.com -- 04:27 -- 08:46

Source: Editor and Publisher through IFRA Executive News Service

More than 80% of top US newspaper sites experienced increased unique visitors since year-on-year since June 2007. Nielsen published a report on the average times that users spend on newspaper sites.

Time that users spent online grew for sites like the New York Times, USA Today, Newsday and Ottoway Newspapers. Time spent online nearly doubled for the Houston Chronicle,  the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

However, a decrease was seen on the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times. Furthemore, nearly half of the top 30 sites reported a decline in time spent on their sites.

Below is the list of the time that users spent in June 2008, compared to June 2007, taken from Editor & Publisher:

NYTimes.com -- 0:29:00 -- 0:27:34
USATODAY.com -- 0:14:38 -- 0:12:45
washingtonpost.com -- 0:14:45 -- 0:18:34
Wall Street Journal Online -- 0:09:41 -- 0:15:57
LA Times -- 0:08:59 -- 0:10:24

Boston.com -- 0:08:24 -- 0:18:47
Chicago Tribune -- 0:07:30 -- 0:18:38
New York Post -- 0:06:45 -- 0:07:14
Daily News Online Edition -- 0:07:01 -- 0:05:34
SFGate.com/San Francisco Chronicle -- 0:15:37 -- 0:12:18

Newsday -- 0:04:03 -- 0:03:46
Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- 0:12:48 -- 0:21:12
Chicago Sun-Times -- 0:08:11 -- 0:07:20
International Herald Tribune -- 0:04:00 -- 0:02:12
The Politico -- 0:09:40 -- 0:05:04

Village Voice Media -- 0:03:45 -- 0:04:16
DallasNews.com - The Dallas Morning News -- 0:05:18 -- 0:04:55
The Houston Chronicle -- 0:29:50 -- 0:16:00
Seattle Post-Intelligencer -- 0:11:02 -- 0:06:01
The Seattle Times -- 0:09:10 -- 0:11:33

Star Tribune -- 0:30:18 -- 0:31:00
MercuryNews.com -- 0:04:03 -- 0:07:21
Azcentral.com -- 0:23:07 -- 0:26:28
tampabay.com -- 0:06:48 -- 0:09:39
MLive.com -- 0:05:27 -- 0:14:01

The San Diego Union-Tribune -- 0:04:08 -- 0:06:58
NJ.com -- 0:10:24 -- 0:07:25
Ottaway Newspapers -- 0:05:22 -- 0:04:41
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel -- 0:30:27 -- 0:17:54
KansasCity.com -- 0:07:39 -- 0:10:51

Source: Editor & Publisher

Nielsen Online has reported that more than 80% of online newspapers in the top 30 recorded increases in the number of unique visitors for the month of June, compared to the same month a year ago.

There were some exceptions, including the Houston Chronicle -- which fell 44% in June -- and Ottaway Newspapers, falling 30%, however,  the majority enjoyed significant increases. New York's Daily News Online jumped 109% year-over-year in June to 3.8 million uniques. Newsday increased uniques by 73% to 3.0 million visitors, and monthly uniques at Village Voice Media was up 70% to 2.2 million.

Below is the list of the top 30 newspaper Web sites provided by Nielsen. The percent change compares June 2008 uniques with June 2007 uniques.

NYTimes.com -- 17,650 -- 41%
USATODAY.com -- 9,626 -- 12%
Washingtonpost.com -- 9,062 -- 11%
Wall Street Journal Online -- 6,441 -- 52%
L.A. Times -- 6,190 -- 21%

Boston.com -- 5,226 -- 23%
Chicago Tribune -- 4,920 -- 58%
New York Post -- 4,617 -- 51%
Daily News Online Edition --- 3,803 -- 109%
SFGate.com/San Francisco Chronicle -- 3,621 -- (-8%)

Newsday -- 3,031 -- 73%
Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- 2,733 -- (-4%)
Chicago Sun-Times -- 2,669 -- 34%
International Herald Tribune -- 2,454 -- 54%
The Politico -- 2,437 -- 43%

Village Voice Media -- 2,217 -- 70%
DallasNews.com - The Dallas Morning News -- 2,213 -- 26%
The Houston Chronicle -- 2,158 -- (-44%)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer -- 1,925 -- 4%
The Seattle Times -- 1,924 -- 42%

Star Tribune -- 1,844 -- 55%
MercuryNews.com -- 1,669 -- 48%
Azcentral.com -- 1,621 -- (-8%)
tampabay.com -- 1,579 -- 16%
MLive.com -- 1,578 -- 80%

The San Diego Union-Tribune -- 1,554 -- 51%
NJ.com -- 1,539 -- 0%
Ottaway Newspapers -- 1,485 -- (-30%)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel -- 1,450 -- 33%
KansasCity.com -- 1,447 -- 33%

Source: Editor & Publisher

This week's cover of the New Yorker, called "The Politics of Fear", may have caused some turmoil, but the message may have been misinterpreted.

"The cover takes a lot of distortions, lies, and misconceptions about the Obamas and puts a mirror up to them to show them for what they are," said the New Yorker's editor, David Remnick.

Bill Burton, an Obama spokesperson said that even though the cover was a satire, readers might see it as "tasteless" and "offensive". Meanwhile, Senator John McCain thought it was "inappropriate", reported AFP.

"These inflammatory images and spurious associations will only serve to reinforce the racism and anti-Muslim stereotypes that the magazine says it is out to challenge," said The Council on American Islamic Relations.

However, Bill Maher, host of a political HBO show, asked, "If you can't do irony on the cover of The New Yorker, where can you do it?"

Chicago Tribune's Clarence Page defended the cover, saying that it's "within the normal realms of journalism" and that "it's just lampooning all the crazy ignorance out there", according to CBS News.

The magazine issue, which goes on sale on July 21, features a lengthy article focusing on Obama's history in Chicago politics.

Barry Blitt, the cartoon's artist, intended to come up with something that would caricature the way that misinformation floats around the political sphere and the way that terror is used as a political tool, according to Newsday.

Source: The New York Times, CBS News, AFP, Newsday

US cable television group Cablevision acquired New York-based Newsday - the nation's eighth largest newspaper - from Tribune Co. for US$650 million.

The cable group beat Rupert Murdoch's $580 million. Mort Zuckerman, owner of the New York Daily News, had also bid $580 million.

It's interesting to see a cable TV group staking in a major newspaper, in a move that goes against the general trend of newspapers acquiring Web start-ups.

"Being owned by an Internet service provider company opens up a range of options for a newspaper to generate revenue from people accessing the Internet," said Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism.

Cablevision will also benefit from the content produced by the paper.

The New York Times questioned the rationale behind the deal: "Most analysts question the rationale for buying Newsday and had hoped Cablevision's quest failed."

The deal will help Tribune Co. get some, but little, relief from its crushing $12.8 billion debt.

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Source: SFN Blog - Editor & Publisher (here and here)

A source reveals that Tribune Co. is very close to selling Long Island based Newsday to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp for about $580 million.

The terms state that "Newsday would be part of a joint venture with News Corp's money-losing New York Post, allowing the two publications to combine back office operations", the source said. The Wall Street Journal said the deal "is expected to wipe out as much as $50 million in annual losses that News Corp now incurs on the Post."

News Corp would own most of the company, while Tribune would retain a very small part but would receive "anywhere between $500 million and $600 million", under News Corp's terms.

Selling Newsday would help Tribune chief executive Sam Zell cut debt at the company, which is over $10 billion.

"The combined operation would be profitable," newspaper analyst John Morton said. "There would be some administrative and production cost savings but the real goal would be to combine the advertising appeal and sell that jointly for advertisers that want both Long Island and New York City coverage."

Analysts said "a combined operation would also place News Corp's New York Post in a much stronger position against [the New York Daily News]."

Mortimer Zuckerman, owner of the Post's newspaper rival, the Daily News, is reportedly planning to submit a new, formal bid by the end of the week for Newsday.

Because the U.S. government restricts the number of papers that media companies can own in markets where they also own television stations, the deal could be hindered with Murdoch owning The Wall Street Journal and Fox affiliate WNYW-TV, in addition to the Post.

Source: Reuters

The Chicago Tribune website has added new features to better facilitate viewers in finding related stories and improving search results.

Most articles will contain hyperlinked keywords throughout the text that will link to a topic gallery, which features related stories, photos, and historical archives.  Another way to access the topic galleries is through a listing of more than 15,000 keywords found at the website. Other Tribune Co. media properties including the LA Times and Newsday in Long Island, NY will contribute to the galleries on the website.

The Tribune has also launched a beta version of its website for the Apple iPhone.

Source: News & Technology

Bad news for US newspapers: a wave of layoffs has hit many newsrooms in the beginning of 2008.

The Boston Globe, owned by The New York Times Co., announced it plans to cut 60 jobs by offering voluntary employee buyouts - these won't affect the website, Boston.com. The Worcester Telegram & Gazette will cut 20 jobs.

Tribune Co.-owned Newsday publisher Tim Knight announced that the newspaper will cut about 120 jobs across the company, representing about 5% of the workforce. 25 of the layoffs will be in the newsroom. The pressroom will cut 24 union positions.

Other Tribune Co. newspapers including the Los Angeles Times (where 100 to 150 jobs are to be eliminated, 40-50 of them in the newsroom), The Baltimore Sun and the Chicago Tribune Media Group announced about 300 layoffs two weeks ago. The Los Angeles Daily News laid off 22 editors and reporters on Feb. 29.

At the San Jose Mercury News, reporters have been told to stay at home until the morning of March 7, when they will or will not receive a phone call telling them they've lost their job. The Mercury News' staff has shrunk to about 200 from twice that number in 1999.

The problem is that newspapers have yet to find a way to compensate print declines with online revenues. Part of the solution is citizen journalists, unpaid volunteers with some expertise in a field who can complement coverage. But most content produced by citizen journalists is commentary rather than news coverage.

According to Graphic Designr, there were more than 2,000 layoffs and buyouts in the newspaper industry in the last half of 2,007. In the first two months of February, the count is over 1,000.

Sources: Los Angeles Times - Yahoo News - Newsday - Graphic Designr through I Want Media and Poynter Romenesko

Editor & Publisher has released its ranking of average time spent per person for the US’ top 30 newspaper sites. NYTimes.com is in the lead, with almost 36 minutes per visitor.

The figure is still high, but much lower than for January 2007, when average time spent per person was 44 minutes.

As a matter of fact, the average time spent at US’ 5 most popular newspaper sites, those of the NYT, USA Today, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times, decreased from year-on-year, in what could seem to be a trend for newspaper website usage (except for washingtonpost.com, for which average time spent remained flat).

Significantly, the average time spent on WSJ.com was slightly less than eight minutes. Time spent on Newsday.com, which enjoyed one of the biggest user increases over the past year, was a mere three minutes.

Among the winners in average time spent on site, Azcentral.com more than doubled its figures, up to 16 minutes, and the Minnesota Star Tribune succeeded in sustaining last year’s high average, at 29 minutes per person.

Below are the results as published by E&P. All numbers are from Nielsen Online:

Brand or Channel -- 2008 Time per Person (hh:mm:ss) -- 2007 Time per Person (hh:mm:ss)

NYTimes.com -- 0:35:47 -- 0:44:05
USATODAY.com -- 0:13:06 -- 0:21:42
washingtonpost.com -- 0:17:30 -- 0:17:32
Wall Street Journal Online -- 0:07:50 -- 0:21:04
LA Times -- 0:07:56 -- 0:12:13

Boston.com -- 0:11:11 -- 0:20:24
SFGate.com/San Francisco Chronicle -- 0:11:50 -- 0:10:13
New York Post -- 0:14:22 -- 0:09:55
Newsday -- 0:03:34 -- 0:07:08
Chicago Tribune -- 0:12:24 -- 0:10:47

Daily News Online Edition -- 0:09:22 -- 0:07:18
Chicago Sun-Times -- 0:07:39 -- 0:08:08
Village Voice -- 0:04:33 -- 0:02:47
Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- 0:22:37 -- 0:27:57
The Politico -- 0:09:50 -- 0:02:35*

Seattle Post-Intelligencer -- 0:09:48 -- 0:07:16
The Houston Chronicle -- 0:17:23 -- 0:22:18
DallasNews.com -- The Dallas Morning News -- 0:03:21 -- 0:05:07
Azcentral.com -- 0:16:41 -- 0:06:58
Baltimore Sun -- 0:05:53 -- 0:11:01

The Seattle Times -- 0:10:37 -- 0:08:05
International Herald Tribune -- 0:02:44 -- 0:01:49
NJ.com -- 0:07:38 -- 0:15:29
Detroit Free Press -- 0:12:18 -- 0:15:45
The San Diego Union-Tribune -- 0:07:35 -- 0:06:01

Star Tribune -- 0:29:08 -- 0:29:58
The Washington Times -- 0:03:22 -- 0:04:37
tampabay.com (St. Petersburg Times) -- 0:06:36 -- 0:06:57
Philly.com -- 0:07:13 -- 0:25:53
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -- 0:13:08 -- 0:16:48

*Estimates are calculated on small sample sizes and are subject to increased statistical variability as a result.

Source: Editor & Publisher

Editor & Publisher has compiled a list of the top 30 most popular news sites in the US in January. NYTimes.com is still on top with more than 20 million unique visitors. Newsday had one of the biggest year-over-year growths, up 59.2% in uniques, ranking ninth (down from fourth in December).

Among the other news sites that were successful in 2007, political Web-mostly publication Politico increased its year-on-year traffic by 250%, up to 2.3 million uniques (1.6 million the previous month).

Below is the entire list as compiled by Editor & Publisher:

Brand or Channel -- Unique Audience (000) -- Year-over-year % Change

NYTimes.com -- 20,461 -- 45.1%
USATODAY.com -- 12,314 -- 19.4%
washingtonpost.com -- 9,902 -- 14.6%
Wall Street Journal Online -- 6,962 -- 81.4%
LA Times -- 5,715 -- 4.7%

Boston.com -- 5,194 -- 23.7%
SFGate.com/San Francisco Chronicle -- 4,255 -- (-3.9%)
New York Post -- 4,027 -- (-3.5%)
Newsday -- 3,764 -- 59.2%
Chicago Tribune -- 3,185 -- (-15.7%)

Daily News Online Edition -- 3,104 -- 23.3%
Chicago Sun-Times -- 2,695 -- 12.7%
Village Voice -- 2,686 -- 116.4%
Atlanta Journal-Constitution --2,391 -- 8.9%
The Politico -- 2,371 -- 253.4%

Seattle Post-Intelligencer -- 2,256 -- 24.2%
The Houston Chronicle -- 2,208 -- (-37.1%)
DallasNews.com - The Dallas Morning News -- 2,207 -- 6.1%
Azcentral.com -- 2,145 -- 12.0%
Baltimore Sun -- 2,137 -- 44.7%

The Seattle Times -- 1,814 -- (-23.0%)
International Herald Tribune -- 1,789 -- (-15.0%)
NJ.com -- 1,630 -- 29.1%
Detroit Free Press -- 1,574 -- 30.6%
The San Diego Union-Tribune -- 1,529 -- (-26.4%)

Star Tribune -- 1,511 -- 54.2%
The Washington Times -- 1,510 -- (-16.1%)
tampabay.com -- 1,468 -- (-11.7%)
Philly.com -- 1,400 -- 18.6%
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -- 1,303 -- (-9.9%)

Source: Editor & Publisher through IFRA Executive News Service

Tribune Co. is to cut 500 jobs, about 2% of its nationwide workforce. 100 to 150 layoffs will affect the Los Angeles Times.

About 40-50 of these will be editorial jobs in the newsroom and the cuts will take place "through a combination of attrition, voluntary buyouts and, if necessary, layoffs," said publisher David Hiller in an interview with the Times.

"The job cuts are focused on the corporate staff and the company's nine newspapers, including, besides The Times, the Chicago Tribune, Newsday in New York, the Orlando Sentinel, the Baltimore Sun and the Hartford Courant,” reported the paper.

Apparently the job cuts won’t affect Tribune’s broadcast division.

Source: Editor & Publisher